Penny Dean and Your Rights

Last Friday a federal judge in Kansas turned away a civil rights lawsuit by a Leawood couple whose house was searched in 2012 based on a visit to a hydroponics store and a field test that incorrectly identified tea in their garbage as marijuana. In a summary judgment, U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum said police acted legally and reasonably in planning and conducting the fruitless raid on the home of Robert and Adlynn Harte, former CIA agents whose children were 7 and 13 at the time.

<img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/11/29/us/29evidence-web01/29evidence... align="right" width="200">Steven Mark Chaney, who was freed from prison in October after 28 years, had to fight back tears as he watched forensic dentists argue here, before the Texas Forensic Science Commission, whether bite patterns on the skin of murder, rape and child abuse victims can offer valid clues to the perpetrator’s identity.

<img src="http://cdn.csgazette.biz/cache/sq500-d62878d8ce38a313ab79184e1bb05f4e.jpg" align="right" width="240">"The thing is, we have to really reach out to those who might consider voting for trump [sic] and say, 'this is Goebbels. This is the final solution. If you are voting for him I will have to shoot you before election day.'"

<img src="https://photographyisnotacrime.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Roger-Carl... align="right" width="240">A man who was attacked by three San Antonio police officers last year while taking photos of his wife’s business is now paralyzed from the neck down.

But San Antonio police have already wiped their hands of the matter, saying they had merely confused Roger Carlos with a violent felon whom they were chasing when they hopped out of a van and attacked him before realizing he was the wrong man.

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Comments by the poster of this video: "Caught this today on Highway 2 just out of Wenatchee. WSP had their aircraft up to catch speeders in the 60mph section of Hwy 2. Apparently there was a "DRE" drug recognition expert conference up in Lake Chelan today- so the WSP plane caught several marked and unmarked (and a motorcycle) doing well above the speed limit (26mph over in at least once case)

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Harnett County, North Carolina sheriff’s deputies kicked a man’s door down at 3:30am this past Sunday and killed him after he told them they couldn’t search his home “without a search warrant.”

After John Livingston, 33, shut his door in the deputies’ faces with his demand for a warrant, his roommate says police “kicked in the door, got on top of him, started slinging him around [and] beat him.”

<img src="http://www.formomsandkids.com/images/products/yellow-ducky-soap-favor.jpg" align="right" width="200">A New York man who spent 29 days in jail after Pennsylvania state police mistook homemade soap for cocaine has filed a lawsuit.

The (Allentown) Morning Call reports Alexander Bernstein says he had to pay thousands of dollars in court costs and missed Thanksgiving with his toddler before the charges were dropped. He's seeking damages exceeding $150,000. State troopers and the field test manufacturer are named in the suit filed last week.

Say what you will about the legality of carrying concealed weapons, but this story proves that allowing the general public to have access to guns can save lives and stop crime!
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A would-be armed robbery suspect was shot dead Monday morning while attempting to hold-up three utility workers in north county, the St. Louis County Police Department said.

According to Sgt. Brian Schellman, a county police spokesman, the incident occurred around 8:55 a.m. around the intersection of Lynncrest and Crown Point.

Federal drug agents have built a massive wiretapping operation in the Los Angeles suburbs, secretly intercepting tens of thousands of Americans' phone calls and text messages to monitor drug traffickers across the United States despite objections from Justice Department lawyers who fear the practice may not be legal.

Do more guns equal more gun crime? Sounds like an obvious question but what happens when guns are in the right hands? Do states with concealed carry laws see an increase in gun crime? Reality Check!

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