In a 17-page decision filed Dec. 29 in federal court in Phoenix, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa set the Lacey/Larkin case on track for a Feb. 9 retrial, rejecting a defense motion that the Constitution’s prohibition on double jeopardy…
In an apparent act of unintentional irony, just three days before International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a statement announcing the conclusion of its investigation into…
In a 17-page order issued Dec. 10 in the Lacey/Larkin case, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa in Phoenix denied a defense motion requesting that the court release a fraction of the more than $135 million dollars seized by federal…
Glenn Greenwald alerted me Friday morning to the bad news. Not Greenwald himself, but his newsletter, which of course scooped the MSM in the U.S. with the report that a British appeals court had ruled in favor of a U.S….
Entrepreneur, philanthropist and free-speech stalwart Phil Harvey, founder of the pioneering adult retail company Adam & Eve, passed away Dec. 2 at his Maryland home, according to news reports. He was 83. As Adam & Eve’s website explains, Harvey created…
Defense attorneys in the Lacey/Larkin case faced a high bar during Friday’s oral arguments in Phoenix’s federal court on their motion for dismissal for double jeopardy, filed in the wake of a mistrial declared on Sep. 14 by Judge Susan…
Knowing their case had gone drastically awry, in early September, government attorneys “goaded” the defense into successfully moving for a mistrial in the Lacey/Larkin case, part of a long pattern of prosecutorial misconduct. To protect the defendants from a violation…
