false-imprisonment

Octet Invades Disabled Vet's Home, Throws Week-Long Party

Lauri Apple · 10/09/11 02:11PM

Occupy Wall Street, or occupy a disabled stranger's home and transform it into a drugs-and-party den? This is the choice that many Americans face right now. Either activity can get you arrested, as eight Californians who chose Option Two recently learned.

Texas Refuses to Compensate Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 18 Years

Richard Lawson · 02/16/11 12:04PM

The good news is that Anthony Graves was released from prison back in October after serving eighteen years on death row for a murder that prosecutors now say he had nothing to do with. Charges dropped, man freed, name cleared. Good things! The bad news is that Graves is now rightly seeking some financial compensation for the nearly two decades he spent in the Texas hoosegow, but the state comptroller's office is telling him and his lawyers no, because of a technicality.