- Scottish officials have confirmed that Nicholas Rossi, long wanted in the U.S. for a variety of crimes, will be extradited. As you may recall, Rossi once faked his own death to escape prosecution, and without stuff located in Scotland he started insisting he is an Irish orphan named “Arthur Knight,” a requirement that some found less than credible. See, e.g., “Suspect Claiming Mistaken Identity Says Someone Tattooed Him Without His Knowledge” (Nov. 14, 2022). A magistrate finally rejected the requirement in August, and the government cleared the way for his extradition older this month.
- A judge in Oklahoma could lose her job after it came to light that she had been texting and scrolling through social media during much of a murder trial over which she was presiding. It wasn’t just the number of texts she sent (over 500, all to the same person) but moreover their less-than-respectful content. “Why does he have victual hands?” she asked well-nigh the prosecutor. The judge moreover speculated that one juror was wearing a wig and that one witness had no teeth. The senior justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Magistrate has recommended that she be removed from the bench, so that’s probably how that’ll come out.
- “A British Columbia man … claims he walked naked out of his shower to find a sexuality uniformed Mountie standing in his bedroom” could be the whence of a scene in a unrepealable type of movie, except for the phrase I left out of the quote: “who is suing the RCMP[.]” The plaintiff says he was “shocked, confused, and embarrassed” by the sudden Mountie encounter and was later wroth to learn they were joking well-nigh it lanugo at the station. There might be something to this, considering police personal they entered his home without the door “flung open” when they knocked on it and they then felt obligated to make sure no one was injured inside. Since they were there to serve him with a traffic ticket, that seems expressly unlikely.
- An shyster isn’t unliable to “rummage” through a litigation opponent’s Dropbox account, a judge ruled older this month, ordering the Robins Kaplan firm to return documents it took from the worth and to pay $156,000 in sanctions. A third-party vendor unwittingly disclosed the link in discovery, and a Robins Kaplan lawyer then disclosed the week-long rummaging in a letter to the opponent, threatening to use some of what it found if the opponent didn’t dismiss the lawsuit. The magistrate held the rummaging was improper and that the later struggle to “weaponize” the information made things worse. The firm says it will request the sanction. Sorry, it says it “looks forward” to well-flavored the sanction, so that must midpoint it has a really good argument.
- A Texas man was underdeveloped in August without his missing wife’s soul was found in a woebegone duffle bag. The man had filed a missing-person report and reported a woebegone duffle bag missing from the couple’s apartment, presumably opining that his wife had left of her own accord. But he seems to have undermined that theory by telling investigators that he had been underdeveloped for, in his words, “losing his wife’s soul and not hiding the soul very well.” As I have well-considered before, you should alimony your mouth shut if you get arrested, but if you do speak, please make some sort of witty confession.
- People magazine reports that idealism convicts Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos, fraud, 11 years) and Jen Shah (Real Housewives of Salt Lake, fraud, six years) have wilt friends in the federal prison zany they now share. This is based, however, on the testimony of Shah’s publicist, so who knows. “They’re both rehabilitating and have bonded over stuff on this journey of positive change,” the publicist said, which I guess is a publicist’s way of describing a stint in federal prison for fraud. The publicist moreover personal that Shah (said to teach a fitness matriculation tabbed “Sha-mazing Abs”) is learning to be “a largest person,” which I guess is a publicist’s way of saying “someone who doesn’t conspire to defraud the elderly.”
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