I know, you’re getting tired of hearing about innocent prisoners released after DNA testing. But you need to stop getting used to it and continue to be appalled at cases like this. After seven and a half years in prison for a murder that he did not commit, Clarence Elkins finally got his break. His […]

I’m floored. While most politicians across the country are falling over themselves trying to outdo each other on the “tough on crime” scale, one lone maverick is bucking the trend by calling into question the integrity of the system itself. Governor Mark Warner of Virginia made headlines recently when he commuted the death sentence of […]

I reported here recently about a Washington state case in which a court had ordered National Patent to turn over the software source code used in their Datamaster EPROM. I spoke to Jon Fox, a prominent Seattle area DUI lawyer handling the case, and he told me that the company actually surprised him and everyone […]

For 24 years Robert Clark was emphatic that he was innocent of rape and kidnap charges brought against him in 1981. After the victim “identified” Clark, however, a jury convicted him and off he went to begin a life in prison. His mother died while he was in jail, and his 3 year old son […]

There’s an article up on Tech Web that indicates security threats were up by 50% in 2005. And that’s on top of the huge increases already reported in every previous year. Every month this year has topped last year’s numbers big time, and November was particularly strong. The disturbing thing about this trend is that […]

Two well-known Seattle criminal defense lawyers were sentenced today after pleading guilty in connection with a federal grand jury probe into money laundering. One was formerly a judge, and the allegation is that he took a backpack stuffed with $100,000 in cash, and in another incident received a similar cash payout in his chambers while […]

I know it’s not funny; it’s tragic, and the victim’s family has my deepest condolences. But you’ll forgive me if I LOL at the defendant in this case. Computer Consultant Robert Petrick was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the death of his wife. To begin with, the defendant represented himself, and the results were […]