FPC’s coverage of the prosecution of publishers Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin on charges related to Backpage.
The U.S. Department of Justice has wasted four years and untold millions of tax dollars on the wrongful prosecution of award-winning journalists and former Backpage owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. Given the opportunity, the DOJ may waste more. Because…
Granted, the Jonestown Massacre may not be the perfect metaphor for Washington Post scribe E.J. Graff’s recent review of California prosecutor Maggy Krell’s book, Taking Down Backpage. Still, the way Graff blindly glugs down Krell’s self-serving account of the latter’s…
On April 6, 2018, the U.S. government set a disturbing precedent in the annals of modern censorship by arresting award-winning newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin and taking down Backpage.com, a classified ads site that reportedly served almost 1,000 cities…
Forget smoking guns. In an appellate brief filed recently at the Ninth Circuit, defense attorneys in the Lacey/Larkin case offer a series of flaming bazookas, detailing the prosecution’s unabashed intent to force the defense to move for a mistrial (and…
Editor’s note: Since this piece was written, the court granted a brief extension to the government, allowing it to file a response to the defense on April 14. In a two-page order filed earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit Court…
Anticipating a favorable ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on a similar Mississippi statute, Republicans in Arizona’s state Senate recently passed a bill along party lines that would outlaw most abortions after 15 weeks, with no exception made for victims…
The most dangerous place in the world for a hypocrite or any other kind of phony is in Elizabeth Nolan Brown‘s sights. A senior editor at the libertarian magazine Reason, Brown vivisects bad ideas and politicians like a coroner on crack….
On Monday in Phoenix, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa vacated a Feb. 9 start date for the second trial of veteran newspapermen and former Backpage.com owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, while a defense appeal on the issue of…
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…
