Slay suspect Narcy Novack seeks public defender
Jonathan Bandler
September 2, 2010
LoHud.com
http://m.lohud.com/detail.jsp?key=392688&rc=lu&full=1
Narcy Novack, the Florida woman accused of plotting her husband’s slaying at a Rye Brook hotel to get at his millions, claims she no longer can afford to pay for her legal defense and will ask a judge for a court-appointed lawyer.
The widow’s intention was revealed [...]
Spitzer opens up personnel file
Kimberly Edds
September 1, 2010
The Orange County Register
http://totalbuzz.ocregister.com/2010/09/01/spitzer-opens-up-personnel-file/40063/
Former Assistant District Attorney Todd Spitzer hand delivered his personnel file from the District Attorney’s Office to us Wednesday afternoon – all 53 pages – for Total Buzz to review as he continues to wage his campaign that he was improperly fired by his former [...]
Regarding the legal industry and its “never waste a good crisis” mentality, James R. Copland from the Manhattan Institute has a good column out today entitled Litigating over the environment makes big bucks for trial lawyers.
The story of a California bank teller who stole money from two accounts poses a thought-provoking question for those in [...]
Former Asst. D.A. Spitzer: Firing had political motive
Kimberly Edds
September 1, 2010
The Orange County Register
http://www.ocregister.com/news/spitzer-264556-attorney-district.html
Ousted Assistant District Attorney Todd Spitzer claims Susan Kang Schroeder, the district attorney’s chief of staff, colluded with her boss Tony Rackauckas to get him fired in the hopes of derailing Spitzer’s plans to be the next Orange County District Attorney - [...]
Bank teller guilty of withdrawing customers’ money
Daily Journal Staff Report
August 27, 2010
The Daily Journal (San Mateo County, CA)
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=139631&title=Bank%20teller%20guilty%20of%20withdrawing%20customers’%20money
A former Redwood City bank teller prosecutors say stole $33,000 from the account of a teenage girl whose deceased mother left her the money and $40,000 from her own elder aunt faces a year in jail for grand [...]