Blog Posts in August, 2009
Posted on Aug 28, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
On June 28, 2009, the Fort Worth Police Department raided the Rainbow Lounge and began randomly handcuffing and arresting patrons and shoving anyone who dared to ask why. One patron, Chad Gibson, was ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
Court blocks execution for 1990 Dallas-area murder By MICHAEL GRACZYK / Associated Press A North Texas man on death row for a slaying almost 19 years ago is mentally impaired, meaning he may not be ...
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Posted on Aug 18, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
We have long argued that the Standard Field Sobriety Tests (SFST) used in DWI arrests is junk science. The so called "tests" have never been peer reviewed and are actually not science at all. Dr. Greg ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
Texas Monthly These 37 men spent 525 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit. Then came the hard part: freedom. The first thing you notice is the eyes-they all have the same look in them, the ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
A study that tested paper money from 30 big cities in five countries-including the U.S., Brazil, Canada, China and Japan-found that big metropolitan areas in both Canada and the U.S. have an ...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
In detective dramas, a dog's powerful sense of smell has become a predictable crime solver: the trusty canine takes a sniff of a suspect object and follows the scent, eventually coming to the ...
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