One of the great ironies of the federal government’s criminal pursuit of veteran newspapermen and former Backpage owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, is Backpage’s winning record in court. Prior to their 2018 arrests, federal and state judges repeatedly upheld…
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich says he supports the “free flow of information and ideas,” at least when it comes to recent laws in Texas and Florida attempting to squash the First Amendment rights of social media outlets. But when…
On Friday, the New York Daily News published a glowing, error-filled preview of former California prosecutor and failed Sacramento County DA candidate Maggy Krell’s book Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker, which is scheduled to drop Jan….
A Feb. 9 start date in Phoenix’s federal court for the re-trial of veteran newspapermen and former Backpage.com owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin may be in question as a result of a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit…
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…
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….
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…
In an eight-page order issued Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa dismissed concerns by the defendants in the Lacey/Larkin case that her connections to the late Sen. John McCain and the McCain Institute might trigger her recusal due to…
Staring down the barrel of an expensive retrial triggered by intentional government overreach, defense attorneys in the Lacey/Larkin case are asking federal Judge Diane Humetewa to release a fraction of the millions of dollars in assets illegally seized by the…
