A fatal result to a staged accident; after a fraud scheme goes awry, a California lawyer is tried for murder

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Prosecutors in the California trial of lawyer Gary Miller failed in their use of a new legal theory to hold the lawyer criminally liable for the foreseeable consequences of his acts, which in his case was payment of participants in an insurance fraud ring which staged auto accidents. It was allegedly foreseeable that at some point the automobile accidents might be fatal, which was what had occurred in this case. Miller was acquitted of murder but convicted of insurance fraud and conspiracy.

Criminal liability, Insurance fraud, Miller, Gary, Foreseeability (Law)

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Cruel and unusual? ACLU vows to challenge California law requiring castration for certain convicted child molesters

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The Northern California ACLU will challenge a state law which orders castrating some convicted child molesters. The ACLU claims the law is unconstitutional, besides lacking a scientific foundation. Legal issues include due process, privacy, equal protection, cruel and unusual punishment. Ten other states have similar laws under consideration. Susan Carpenter-McMillan, the lobbyist who wrote the law, is also proposing that repeat offenders be marked for life with a single handcuff.

Laws, regulations and rules, Child sexual abusers, Castration

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No vindication for convicted ex-cop; judge finds bungling, but no evidence of a frame-up in murder investigation

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A Wisconsin judge has ruled that former Milwaukee policewoman Lawrencia Bembenek was not the victim of a conspiracy to frame her for the murder of her husband's ex-wife. After a 10-month investigation, the judge ruled that mistakes were made, but that these resulted from poor judgment and inadequate procedures rather than intentional acts.

Testimony, Conspiracy, Bembenek, Lawrencia

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