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...Monday, a judge declined a request by prosecutors to jail Bernard Madoff, saying the former investment adviser who is accused of bilking $50 billion from clients did not pose a flight risk. Prosecutors made the request last week after it was discovered that Madoff had sent over a million dollars in jewelry to relatives in the past few weeks. Investigators also revealed that Madoff had $173 million in signed checks sitting in his office drawer at the time of his arrest. Prosecutors say they will appeal the ruling...
Last summer, a judge sent the former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, to jail for violating his bail. How was that case different from Madoff's? In that case, Kilpatrick traveled to Canada. International travel is about the most threatening thing a defendant can do to raise a judge's inference that he is a risk for flight. So that really raised the radar of the judge. What's more, Kilpatrick got the order not to travel out of the Detroit area in his criminal case. In this case, the order that Madoff was accused of violating...
...operation is troubling. "Learning how to navigate this potentially dangerous new twist in human interaction is complicated, particularly with regard to issues of security," King says. According to Lea Bishop Shaver, a lecturer at Yale Law School, threatening to kill someone through an online forum "can land you in jail for assault, even if you never touch the person." But she added that making empty threats over the Internet rarely results in prosecution. "To trigger criminal prosecution, the threat has to be a serious one," Shaver says...
...leaders of Bountiful insist that the reason for their arrests is not their wives but their faith. "This is not about polygamy," declared Winston Blackmore in a press statement on Thursday after he and Oler had been conditionally released from jail. "Tens of thousands of polygamists among many different cultures are hiding in plain sight all across Canada. They are known by their neighbors, policemen, legislators and media just as we are ... But they are not fundamentalist Mormons. To us, this is about religious persecution...
...People come from near and far to drop off food and wish us good luck," says the retired Navy electronics specialist, 72. "Makes me feel good to know that should I go to jail for this, I did the right thing...