Notes from the Handbasket

In a child porn trial, the pornographic images will be shown. The jury needs to see that the images are indeed child porn, and the prosecuti...

Our attorney tells me that the prosecutor is a "good guy" just doing his job prosecuting the crimes the feds are told to focus on....

Drugs. If the laws prohibiting illegal drugs were effective, we would have seen proof of it by now. Since it is abundantly clear that the l...

This is an old piece  from 1999 but still worth reading. The writer, Vin Suprynowicz, a Nevada journalist at the time, talks about reactions...

If you watch TV police dramas, you can be forgiven for thinking that executing a search warrant is a civilized event: a couple of detectives...

Today is a good day because I am not overcome with dread of the future. Instead, I am certain that things will work out well and my husband ...

Nineteen years ago today, seventy-six people in the Branch Davidians compound in Waco, Texas, were killed in a fire. The feds tried to ex...