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CJ current events 29sep23

Contaminated how?

Oklahoma executed an inmate Thursday for the 1996 killing of a University of Oklahoma dance student, in a case that went unsolved for years until DNA from the crime scene was matched to a man serving prison time for burglary. Anthony Sanchez, 44, was pronounced dead at 10:19 a.m. following a three-drug injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Even though he maintained that he had nothing to do with the killing of 21-year-old Juli Busken, he took the unusual step of opting not to present a clemency application to the state’s Pardon and Parole Board, which many viewed as the last chance to spare his life. “I’m innocent,” Sanchez said as he was strapped to a gurney inside the death chamber. “I didn’t kill nobody.”*** Sanchez was convicted of raping and murdering 21-year-old Juli Busken, a Benton, Arkansas, native who had just completed her last semester at the university when she was abducted on Dec. 20, 1996, from the parking lot of her Norman apartment complex. Her body was found that evening near Lake Stanley Draper in far southeastern Oklahoma City. She had been bound, raped and shot in the head.*** Years later, Sanchez was serving time for a burglary conviction when DNA from sperm on Busken’s clothing at the crime scene was matched to him. He was convicted and sentenced to die in 2006.*** Sanchez has long maintained his innocence and did so again in a phone call to The Associated Press earlier this year from death row. “That is fabricated DNA,” Sanchez said. “That is false DNA. That is not my DNA. I’ve been saying that since day one.” He told the AP that he declined to ask for clemency because even when the five-member Pardon and Parole Board takes the rare step of recommending it, Gov. Kevin Stitt has been unlikely to grant it. “I’ve sat in my cell and I’ve watched inmate after inmate after inmate get clemency and get denied clemency,” Sanchez said*** A sample of Anthony Sanchez’s DNA “was identical to the profiles developed from sperm on Ms. Busken’s panties and leotard,” Drummond wrote last month in a letter to a state representative who had inquired about Sanchez’s conviction. Drummond added there was no indication either profile was mixed with DNA from any other individual and that the odds of randomly selecting an individual with the same genetic profile were 1 in 94 trillion among Southwest Hispanics. “There is no conceivable doubt that Anthony Sanchez is a brutal rapist and murderer who is deserving of the state’s harshest punishment,” Drummond said in a recent statement. *** A private investigator hired by an anti-death penalty group contended that the DNA evidence may have been contaminated and that an inexperienced lab technician miscommunicated the strength of the evidence to a jury.*** https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/anthony-sanchez-executed-for-the-1996-killing-of-a-university-of-oklahoma-student/

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pretty cocky adult

The teen driver who allegedly mowed down a retired police chief in a fatal hit-and-run told Las Vegas police he would be back on the streets in under a month, according to a report. Jesus Ayala is accused of driving a stolen Hyundai Elantra on Aug. 14 along with Jzamir Keys, 16, and deliberately crashing and killing Andreas “Andy” Probst, 64, who had been riding his bike, a disturbing video showed. Ayala, who just turned 18, was arrested hours after Probst was killed and told the police while in custody, he wouldn’t be locked up for long. “You think this juvenile [expletive] is gonna do some [expletive]? I’ll be out in 30 days, I’ll bet you,” Ayala told the cops, according to KLAS. “It’s just ah, [expletive] ah, hit-and-run — slap on the wrist.”*** The two teens’ mothers have both spoken out about their sons’ heinous actions but they don’t share the same views. “I don’t know why he did this,” Ayala’s mother told KLAS Wednesday. “I don’t know if God can forgive this.” “My son’s side of the story will be told, ‘the truth,’ not the inaccuracies the media will try to portray,” Keys’ mother said in a text to the station.***

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Alarming Illinois case

Illinois officials are investigating what appears to be a quadruple homicide in a small, quiet neighborhood outside of Chicago after police discovered the bodies of a family of four in their home. Two adults and two children, along with their three dogs, were fatally shot in their home in Romeoville, Illinois. The deaths do not have the markings of a murder-suicide, and officers are investigating the incident as a murder, Deputy Chief Chris Burne of the Romeoville Police Department said during a news conference on Monday. Here's everything to know about the murders in Romeoville. What is known about the murders? Police responded to the home in the 500 block of Concord Avenue for a welfare check on Sunday night after one of the family members did not show up for work, and calls from relatives went unanswered and prompted concern, Burne said. Upon entering the home, police discovered Alberto Rolon, 38, Zoraida Bartolomei, 32, their two boys, ages 7 and 10, and their dogs had been shot to death. While the Will County Coroner's Office did not name the children, Bryana Barolomei, sister to Zoraida Bartolomei, named them as Adriel, 10, and Diego, 7.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/chicago-shooting-everything-to-know-murders-romeoville

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DHS intelligence?

DHS Sec Mayorkas has created an intelligence experts group. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/09/19/secretary-mayorkas-announces-establishment-homeland-intelligence-experts-group. Members of the group include

Jim Clapper, Former Director of National Intelligence

John Brennan, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Paul Kolbe, Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

You may recall that these three signed Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails dated October 19, 2020 that said e-mails from the laptop "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

The FBI “verified” the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop in November 2019 and a federal computer expert assessed “it was not manipulated in any way,” IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley told Congress*** https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fbi-verified-authenticity-of-hunter-biden-s-abandoned-laptop-in-november-2019-irs-whistleblower/ar-AA1cU3Iu

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AG comments on gov kidnapping plot acquittal

DETROIT (AP) - Michigan’s attorney general suggested conservative politics played a role in the acquittal of three men in the final trial related to a plan to kidnap Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Dana Nessel, also a Democrat, told a liberal group Monday the trial was held in a "very right-leaning county." She said Friday’s verdicts were "perplexing, confusing but terrifying." The Detroit News obtained a video of Nessel’s remarks to a group called Protectors of Equality in Government.*** "Three of them were acquitted by a jury in Antrim County, not because we didn’t have great evidence but because essentially, it seemed to me as though the Antrim County jurors, (in a) very, very right-leaning county (were) seemingly not so concerned about the kidnapping and assassination of the governor," Nessel said, according to the newspaper. Matthew Schneider, who was U.S. attorney in Detroit in 2020 when the FBI broke up the kidnapping plot, said Nessel’s remarks were inappropriate. "We might disagree with jurors, but I don’t think it’s helpful to trash them and the American jury system when things don’t go our way," Schneider told The Associated Press. "That’s especially true here where the AG’s office selected these jurors and agreed to have them serve during jury selection."*** Molitor said FBI informant Dan Chappel, who was inside the group for months, had "glued" the scheme together. "He helped set people up. He drove people. He paid for stuff. He did trainings," Molitor told the jury. "If it wasn’t for him actually bringing people together and setting stuff up, the majority of people would not have gotten together to do this or even talked about stuff."

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Presumed innocent, etc

A U.S. government contractor was arrested on Aug. 24 based on espionage charges in a complaint unsealed today. Abraham Teklu Lemma, 50, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Ethiopian descent, of Silver Spring, Maryland, is charged with delivering national defense information to aid a foreign government, conspiracy to deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government, and the willful retention of national defense information. According to the criminal complaint, between on or about Dec. 19, 2022, and Aug. 7, 2023, Lemma copied classified information from intelligence reports and deleted the classification markings from them. Lemma then removed the information, which was classified as SECRET and TOP SECRET, from secure facilities at the Department of State. This material related to a specific country and/or geographic region. Lemma accessed, copied, removed, and retained this information without authorization. According to the charging documents, Lemma used an encrypted application to transmit classified national defense information to a foreign government official associated with a foreign country’s intelligence service. In these communications, Lemma expressed an interest and willingness to assist the foreign government official by providing information. In one communication, the foreign official stated, “[i]t’s time to continue ur support.” Lemma responded, “Roger that!” In other chats, the foreign official tasked Lemma to focus on information related to particular subjects, and Lemma responded “[a]bsolutely, I have been focusing on that all this week . . . .” As alleged in the criminal complaint, the classified national defense information Lemma transferred to the foreign official included satellite imagery and other information regarding military activities in the foreign country and region. The two espionage charges carry a potential penalty of death or any term of years up to life in prison, and the willful retention charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. *** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-government-contractor-arrested-espionage-charges

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Who wore it best?

Police returned articles of clothing to a Tanzanian fashion designer they obtained while executing a search warrant of disgraced ex-Department of Energy (DOE) official Sam Brinton's home. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) Police Department confirmed the clothes were returned to Asya Khamsin, who has alleged Brinton publicly wore clothing she designed, but which was in her bag she reported missing at Ronald Reagan National Airport years ago. In May, MWAA police officers executed a search warrant in connection with the case at Brinton's Maryland residence. "The MWAA Police Department can confirm we returned the victim’s property and police retained photos of the evidence for prosecution," MWAA spokesperson Crystal Nosal told Fox News Digital in a statement Tuesday. "The case is still under adjudication and we cannot release more detailed information." Weeks after the search warrant was executed, Brinton was charged with felony grand larceny of items worth more than $1,000. The preliminary hearing in the case, which was filed in Arlington General District Court, has been delayed until December.*** https://www.foxnews.com/politics/police-find-female-designers-stolen-clothes-ex-biden-official-sam-brintons-home

Other instances of stealing clothes from female travelers, presumed innocent, etc.

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Sen Bob Menendez, indicted, yawn, again

He was originally tried around 2015 for taking bribes from a doctor in Florida. The doc was convicted, but there was a mistrial in Sen Menendez's case, and he wasn't retried.

Current charges allege he and his wife took bribes in return for protecting and enriching "HANA, URIBE, and DAIBES and [benefiting] the Arab Republic of Egypt. Those bribes included cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value****"

He presumed innocent, etc.

Harmeet Dillon is a conservative former federal prosecutor from NY. She asked

Menendez has been a corrupt degenerate representing NJ for years while being credibly accused of human trafficking of girls in Nicaragua, flying them on private planes like Epstein, bribery charges dating back to at least 2015. Why the indictment now? 🧐 https://usnews.com/news/articles/2015/08/24/feds-say-corroborating-evidence-backed-menendez-prostitution-claims

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Fidelity, Bravery, Income

Charles F. McGonigal, 54, a former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office, pleaded guilty today to concealment of material facts for his undisclosed receipt of $225,000 in cash from an individual who had business interests in Europe while McGonigal was supervising counterintelligence efforts. The plea was accepted by U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who scheduled sentencing for Feb. 16, 2024. According to papers filed with the court, from August 2017, and continuing through his retirement from the FBI in September 2018, McGonigal concealed from the FBI the nature of his relationship with a former foreign security officer and businessperson who had ongoing business interests in foreign countries and before foreign governments. Specifically, McGonigal received at least $225,000 in cash from the individual and traveled abroad with the individual and met with foreign nationals. The individual later served as an FBI source in a criminal investigation involving foreign political lobbying over which McGonigal had official supervisory responsibility.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/retired-fbi-special-agent-charge-pleads-guilty-concealing-information-fbi

McGonigal took the cash from Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.

McGonigal participated in triggering the Russiagate/Crossfire Hurricane probe. https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/charles-mcgonigal-indicted-ex-fbi-head-helped-trigger-russia-probe/ https://www.newsweek.com/charles-mcgonigal-trump-russia-2016-investigation-muller-1776049

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Colorado & jails

All jails in Colorado are now required to offer the gold-standard opioid treatment to inmates who need it, expanding a proven intervention to one of the front lines of the state’s deadly overdose crisis. At least half of Colorado’s jails were not offering full medication-assisted treatment — the use of medications like methadone plus counseling — before a statutory requirement kicked in on July 1. Amid broader debate about how to handle record-breaking overdoses here, experts have hailed the requirement as among the most consequential policies to come from last year’s controversial fentanyl bill. While several expressed concern about how the state would monitor jails’ compliance in the years to come, the change means a required expansion of treatment for hundreds of the state’s most vulnerable drug users.*** https://www.denverpost.com/2023/08/06/colorado-opioids-medication-treatment-jails/

Increased risk of overdose due to loss of tolerance.

For the first time in state history, Colorado’s patchwork system of local jails will soon have a baseline set of standards guiding how they feed, house, restrain and care for the thousands of people who move through their facilities each year. It’s just not clear how the state will ensure jails are complying with those rules. A state commission that is finalizing the new standards has arrived at what one official called a “counterintuitive” compromise: allowing those jails, and the sheriffs who run them, to police each other. The Jail Standards Commission — made up of sheriffs, attorneys, county commissioners and mental health advocates — settled on that idea after finding no state law enforcement agencies willing to take on the responsibility.*** https://www.denverpost.com/2023/09/23/colorado-legislature-jail-standards-oversight-sheriffs/

Jails are ordinarily a county or city responsibility. Nobody wants to police the jails.

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What "Keep Portland Weird" means.

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Is there some right to possess dirty pics of little kids?

Sen Durbin, Illinois has proposed S.1199 “Strengthening Transparency and Obligations to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment Act of 2023.” It updates and expands existing federal laws that prohibit possession and transmission of internet Cpr0n. You can look at 18 U.S.C. §2258A. Reporting requirements of providers for the gory details at present.

The American Civil Liberties Union called on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) not to pass a bill strengthening restrictions on child sexual [abuse] material on the basis that the legislation violates the First Amendment. The ACLU and a coalition of 60 other civil rights and industry groups wrote to Schumer on Monday, asking him not to pass Sen. Dick Durbin's (D-IL) STOP CSAM bill. The coalition argues that the legislation, which would update the law regarding CSAM to pressure Big Tech companies to crack down harder, would discourage the platforms from hosting speech related to abortion, gay and transgender people, and sexual health. They also argue it would stifle discourse on the internet and threaten user privacy.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/aclu-calls-on-schumer-not-to-pass-bill-child-exploitation-content-stop-csam

If you go to S.1199 you'll see that it never mentions "abort," "gay," "trans," or "gender." The only reference to health it completely irrelevant to the to ACLU argument about censoring sexual health information.

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1st time I've heard of such

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Dozens of Oakland small business owners are poised to strike planning to shut down for a portion of the day Tuesday. They are fed up with feeling as though the city is not protecting them from the rising tide of crime. Restaurateur Ryan Dixon got emotional about the crime happening in Oakland now and how it's threatening the small business ecosystem that makes Oakland what it is. "We are all dying figuratively and literally. The business community has just gotten to the breaking point where everyday someone is having to choose to close their doors because they can no longer stay in business," said Dixon, who is a managing partner of Calavera, a restaurant on Broadway. "Whether they're getting broken into repeatedly, whether their staff is being held up or assaulted, shootings in front of our businesses. People are afraid to come to downtown Oakland right now," he said.*** https://abc7news.com/oakland-business-strike-businesses-close-tuesday-crime-robberies/13830589/

Even doctors are going on strike.

***after tues

And this is after the Raidfilth moved to Vegas

Crime in Oakland has gotten so bad that residents actually expect to have their cars broken into, or even stolen, on a daily basis. There have been 10,547 reported vehicle thefts in Oakland this year through Sept. 17, which averages out to just over 40 vehicle thefts every day. It’s a 51% increase compared to the same time period last year. Police say there have also been 10,335 reported car break-ins over this same time period, though that number is higher because officers say most people don’t even bother to report when their car has been broken into in Oakland anymore. It’s the latest report in a series of terrible developments in Oakland this year. In August, police told residents to carry air horns with them and to add security bars to the doors and windows of their own homes to protect against criminals, with burglaries up 41% and robberies up 20% compared to last year. Violent crime has also increased, with women being the easy targets for violent career criminals.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/soros-district-attorney-oakland-stolen-cars

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Pls complete the safety & security module!

The court-martial of an Air Force Academy cadet started Monday over allegations he sexually assaulted a fellow cadet in 2021 at a vacation rental house in Tabernash on the Western Slope. Cadet Eamon McHugh and nine other cadets started drinking during the afternoon of Saturday, May 16, 2021, to celebrate receiving their class rings, a tradition for the junior class, lawyers said. The party continued into the evening with a bonfire. While sitting around the bonfire, McHugh and a female cadet started kissing, according to a photo showed during the trial. The two later went into a bedroom at the home, where the alleged assault happened, lawyers said. *** https://gazette.com/military/usafa/air-force-academy-cadet-faces-court-martial-in-sexual-assault-case/article_46af80de-5bdc-11ee-b5d9-731dc81dd1fd.html

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Shame

A former judge in Chicago lost her license to practice law following accusations that she robbed her uncle, a World War II veteran of the Tuskegee Airmen, of more than $240,000 to purchase cryptocurrency. Patricia Martin stated she misappropriated funding that had been entrusted to her by Oscar Wilkerson Jr., her uncle, and his power of attorney, according to a report. The misappropriation purportedly occurred while the former Tuskegee airman stayed in a nursing home and Martin was disbarred on consent, Thursday filings from the Illinois Supreme Court noted. "She intentionally used for her own purposes more than $240,000 she had agreed to hold for an elderly relative who was residing in a nursing home, made false statements to the physician who held her relative's power of attorney about the balances in his bank and investment accounts, and did not produce documents in response to an ARDC subpoena," according to the court's Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-judge-loses-law-license-robbing-tuskegee-airmen-uncle

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different state, different judge, different result

A Missouri judge rewrote the ballot summaries for six proposed initiative petitions to institute abortion rights into the state constitution to remove language such as "unborn child," "end the life," and "the right to life" — a setback to the anti-abortion rights side. In a ruling issued on Monday, Judge Jon Beetem wrote that 13 of the phrases used in the summaries written by Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft were "argumentative" and obscured the intention of the amendment to protect abortion rights and other rights related to reproduction.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/judge-rewrites-ballot-questions-abortion-amendment-remove-unborn-child

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forgot about this case

Jury selection began on Monday in the New Mexico terrorism and kidnapping trial of five family members accused of running a terror training camp and using malnourished children as pawns in a deadly scheme to target schools, law enforcement, and the military. The charges against two men and three women stemmed from a 2018 raid on their desert compound by agents attempting to locate a missing 3-year-old boy who suffered from seizures. His mother told authorities in 2017 that his father, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, one of the defendants, had taken him to perform an exorcism because he thought the boy was possessed by the devil. During the raid on the Taos compound, agents found 11 children and five adults living in squalor and wearing rags. They also uncovered a cache of weapons and ammunition. The search of the compound, which was partly buried underground, also turned up the decomposing body of the missing toddler, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, in an underground tunnel. The family members allegedly believed that after the boy died, he would be resurrected as Jesus Christ and provide instructions on who in the U.S. government and private institutions needed to be exterminated.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/new-mexico-terrorism-kidnapping-trial

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2022 - 2011 = a lot less than 30, right?

Jason Billingsley beat to death a Baltimore woman, Pava LaPere, in her apartment around 24sep23.

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Billingsley has a violent past. He was convicted of a “violent” crime in 2011 and received a 30-year sentence. He was also arrested in 2009 and 2013 on charges related to sex offenses, assault, and robbery, according to police. He was convicted of sex offenses in 2015. He was released on parole in October 2022. It is unclear if he broke parole. *** https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/suspect-32-wanted-for-murdering-tech-ceo-26-in-her-baltimore-apart/

Police have asked B-man to surrender. If murdering women doesn't break your parole, what does.

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fed issue or state issue?

Gianno Caldwell, whose 18-year-old brother was fatally shot in Chicago last year, called on federal lawmakers Tuesday to help address the city's glaring violent crime rates, which have remained elevated in recent years. Caldwell, a Fox News analyst and consulting firm owner, made his appeal to congressional Republicans during a field event they hosted as part of a series of stops to bring attention to crime in urban locations. "The police have repeatedly said that my brother was not the target, that he just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time," Caldwell told the lawmakers. "But in Chicago, being at the wrong place at the wrong time could be sleeping in your bed and a bullet comes through your window or in the backseat of a car at a McDonald's drive-thru, as 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams was murdered." Christian Caldwell was shot and killed by an unidentified male on the south side of Chicago on the morning of June 24, 2022, according to local media. The suspect shot and injured two others before fleeing the scene in a black sedan.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/murder-victims-brother-slams-chicago-district-attorney-war-zone

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Target closing stores

At Target, we take the decision to close stores very seriously, and only do so after taking meaningful steps to invest in the guest experience and improve business performance. With that said, we have made the difficult decision to close nine Target stores across four states, effective Oct. 21. In this case, we cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests, and contributing to unsustainable business performance. We know that our stores serve an important role in their communities, but we can only be successful if the working and shopping environment is safe for all.*** https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2023/09/Target-Closes-Select-Stores-to-Prioritize-Team-Mem

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Least criminal act in Philly

Rioters looted "an Apple store, a Foot Locker, a Lululemon and a liquor store" in Philly Tues night. Police arrested about 20 people. https://nypost.com/2023/09/27/influencer-meatball-livestreamed-philadelphia-looting/

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Great way to catch something

A former correctional officer at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell to sexual abuse of a ward. According to his plea agreement, beginning on Sept. 3, 2022, through Sept. 19, 2022, while employed as a correctional officer at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky, Dustin B. Sparks, 29, knowingly engaged in a sexual act with an inmate on one or more occasions.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-federal-correctional-officer-pleads-guilty-sexual-abuse-ward

PREA - prisoners can't consent to s3x.

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on the other side of the law

A man accused of stabbing another motorist after a crash on the Howard Frankland Bridge on Tuesday is a former assistant U.S. attorney who spent about a decade at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa. Patrick Douglas Scruggs, 38, of Tampa, worked for the U.S. Attorney’s Office from September 2012 until April of this year, according to his LinkedIn page. His time there included appearing on behalf of the federal government during hearings for Florida residents accused of taking part in the riots at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. In May, he joined Barnes and Thornburg, an Atlanta-based private law firm, as an “of counsel” attorney, the page says. The page describes Scruggs as “a seasoned litigator and investigator with experience in various practice areas of criminal law.”***

Two other cars in minor accident/incident on bridge.

Scruggs pulled over, got out and walked up to the driver of the vehicle that hit his car. According to the Highway Patrol, Scruggs broke a window and started stabbing the 35-year-old man with a pocketknife. The couple returned to the vehicle to help the man being stabbed, but Scruggs then tried to stab them and they fled, troopers said. A St. Petersburg Police Department officer driving past saw the commotion and pulled over to help, the Highway Patrol said. The officer detained Scruggs and called for assistance. The 35-year-old man was taken to a local hospital with injuries authorities described as serious but not life-threatening.*** https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2023/09/27/howard-frankland-stabbing-suspect-is-former-assistant-us-attorney/?s=03

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state judge applying state law

A Montana judge blocked a law requiring abortion clinics to be licensed. Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Christopher Abbott issued a temporary restraining order against the law, set to go into practice Saturday, on the grounds that Montana has not yet developed a process by which clinics could become licensed. The move is temporary, and it is “aimed at protecting the parties' positions until a hearing can be held.” The bill being blocked, sponsored by state Rep. Lola Sheldon-Gallowa, states, “A person may not operate or advertise the operation of an abortion clinic unless the person is licensed by the department.” All Families Healthcare, Blue Mountain Clinic, and Helen Weems filed a lawsuit to block the bill before it went into effect Saturday. Abbott approved the temporary injunction and asked that Montana first outline the rules by which clinics can be licensed. “Before licenses can be issued, the Department must first promulgate rules," Abbott wrote. "The department, however, has neither adopted nor even publicly proposed temporary or final rules to implement H.B. 937, nor has it otherwise given providers guidance on how they can avoid violations of Section 2(1) in the interim.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/montana-blocks-law-abortion-clinics-licensed

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not at all CJ, but Annie Agar is funny, https://youtu.be/RYgZQpu_hkQ

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The remains of Suzanne Morphew, a Colorado woman who went missing on Mother’s Day 2020 while on a bike ride, have been found, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Morphew, 49, vanished after going cycling in the area of County Road 225 and West Highway 50 near Maysville, Colorado. Her remains were found Friday in Saguache County – approximately 50 miles south from where she was reported missing, the bureau said in a news release.*** Morphew’s husband, Barry, had faced a first-degree murder charge in 2021 in connection with his wife’s disappearance. But his trial was scrapped in April 2022 after prosecutors moved to dismiss the case while investigators continued the search for her. A judge ruled prosecutors can still pursue the same charges against him in the future. “Barry is with his daughters and they are all struggling with immense shock and grief after learning today that their mother and wife whom they deeply love was found deceased,” Barry Morphew’s attorney, Iris Eytan, said Wednesday. “They had faith that their wife and mom would walk back into their lives again. The news is heartbreaking.*** https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/27/us/suzanne-morphew-remains-found-colorado/index.html

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