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Man Arrested for Having Himself Shot in the Leg
iStockphoto/Thinkstock LEGAL NEWS OF THE WEIRD — Darren Hieber, 33, became the most recent person to choose drastic means to reconcile with an ex. Twice Hieber, of Onawa, Iowa, arranged to have himself...
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Gunman Sues His Victim for Firing Back in Self-Defense
iStockphoto/Thinkstock LEGAL NEWS OF THE WEIRD – Samuel Cutrufelli, 31, filed a lawsuit in October in Sacramento County, Calif., claiming that Jay Leone, 90, “negligently” shot him. Cutrufelli had...
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Court Says Bribes Are OK as Long as They’re Small
iStockphoto/Thinkstock LEGAL NEWS OF THE WEIRD — In October, a federal appeals court overturned the bribery conviction of a City of Chicago zoning inspector — on the grounds that the bribes he was...
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Man Robs Bank When He Finds No Money in His Account
iStockphoto/Thinkstock LEGAL NEWS OF THE WEIRD — In November, Jacory Walker, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery in Waxahachie, Texas, and was sentenced to 37 months in prison. He had made...
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Sentencing Break for Passing $500M bill
Hemera/Thinstock You’ve heard about the loopy idea to pay down the national debt with a trillion-dollar coin. How about a half-billion dollar bill? Cleland Ayison, 32, got a sentencing break in Fort...
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Craaazy Reasons for Divorce [Infographic]
Lawyers.com recently reported on the rather unusually difficult divorces of Deion Sanders and Kim Kardashian. But you don’t have to a celebrity athlete or even “famous for being famous” to have a...
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Oakland, Calif., Offers Classes for Up-and-Coming Burglars
iStockphoto/Thinkstock Among the helpful civic classes the city government in Oakland, Calif., set up earlier this year for its residents was one on how to pick locks (supposedly to assist people who...
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Newsbreak: News of the Weird [Video]
Newsbreak: News of the Weird [Video] In today’s Newsbreak, Lawyers.com Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine provides a round-up of bizarre legal cases from around the country. iStockphoto/ Thinkstock Two...
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Hot Rod Granny Speeds into Flurry of Tickets
iStockphoto/Thinkstock Loretta Lacy, 49, perhaps set some kind of record in January as she sped from Sioux Falls, S.D., to Racine, Wis. (about 500 miles away) just to make her granddaughter’s school...
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There’s No Such Thing as ‘Free’ to the IRS
Hemera/Thinkstock During the massive February Southern California manhunt for former Los Angeles cop Christopher Dorner, nervous-triggered LAPD officers riddled an SUV with bullets after mistakenly...
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Pot May Be Illegal, but the Feds Are Delighted to Tax It
iStockphoto/Thinkstock U.S. companies large and small legally deduct the expenses of doing business from their gross profits before paying income tax, but purveyors of marijuana (in states where...
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