Judges can do many things to end up facing discipline. They can skip out on work too much. They can treat parties poorly. They can disrespect lawyers who appear before them. Or, as a Pennsylvania disciplinary court found regarding Allentown District Judge Maryesther Merlo, all of the above, per The…
Let’s just ignore the fact that the judge explicitly instructed you otherwise. If you were a juror, would you try to friend one of the parties, in the middle of the trial? A young man in Texas did, as reported by The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. [Jonathan] Hudson was a juror…
Unless he just hasn’t been caught other times, there is a clear pattern to this man’s behavior. As luck would have it (bad luck, that is), a Washington woman happened to be on the job when, per The Highline Times, A registered sex offender [allegedly] exposed himself to a bikini…
To say that this Pennsylvania woman showed no remorse after faking cancer to make a buck would be an understatement. She’s actually irate with one of the people she conned! As reported by The Delaware County Daily Times: A former Pottstown woman who served jail time for lying about having…
Surely there are worse grandmothers out there, but probably not many. What did she do? Well, as reported by myfoxorlando.com, … A central Florida woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for a scheme to sell her infant grandson. [46-year-old Patty] Bigbee and her boyfriend, 42-year-old Lawrence Works,…
It’s undisputed that, if you postpone dealing with a problem it goes away. Wait, you mean that’s not true? Then why does everyone act as if it were? Anyway, in yet another example of what The Juice thought was a universal truth, per The Orlando Sentinel: According to an arrest…
If this case is at all typical, it’s very tough for a doctor in the UK to be permanently barred from practicing medicine. As reported by The Daily Express: Dr Ellen MacInnes, who has also been banned from driving three times, had to provide a blood sample to prove she…
At least according to Merriam-Webster, a “fetish” is defined as “an object of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion,” or “an object or bodily part whose real or fantasied presence is psychologically necessary for sexual gratification and that is an object of fixation to the extent that it may interfere with…
If you need a reminder of just how different cultures (and their customs and laws) can be, this ought to do it. As reported by The Times of India: The incident took place in the tribal dominated Masinda village in Debagarh’s Barkote police station area. It houses more than 40…