The Buzz, the St. Petersburg Times’s blog, reports on Bestiality, monkey husbands and Bullard. Oh my! The act of bestiality is a step closer to becoming illegal in Florida now that a Senate committee voted to slap a third-degree felony charge on anyone who has sex with animals. Florida is one ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The sheriff’s department for Chicago’s Cook County says it’s suing Craigslist, calling the popular online classifieds site the largest source of prostitution in the United States. Sheriff Tom Dart plans a news conference later Thursday. A call for comment before bu...

Cash-strapped states are eyeing what some may think is an unlikely target for their budget axes: the death penalty. In what is likely to become a heated debate over policy, CNN is reporting that some states have introduced legislation to "take the death penalty off the books over financial concerns....

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — William Osborne, convicted in a brutal attack on a prostitute in Alaska 16 years ago, says a blue condom holds evidence of his innocence or confirmation of his guilt. Either way, he says, the Constitution gives him the right to test the gen...

Fair LB readers, we figure you’ll have something to say about this one. Dan Abrams, son of First Amendment guru and Cahill Gordon partner Floyd, former host of the Abrams Report (the show that got bumped to give Rachel Maddow her own hour on MSNBC), and CEO of Abrams Research, weighs in with a...

After a few youthful traffic transgressions back in the 1980s, we endured a couple rounds of southern California traffic school. For eight hours on two different Saturdays, we listened to Orange County’s finest read us accident statistics, watched traffic-collision films with names like “...

By GREG BLUESTEIN Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) — A wide-ranging investigation into an alleged suicide assistance ring led to charges against four people and raids in nine states as authorities looked into how many deaths might have been involved. Four members of the Final Exit Network were...

Well, that was quick. Texas federal judge Samuel Kent, whose criminal trial was slated to start today, has copped a plea. The jurist pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of justice today and retired from the bench, avoiding a trial on several charges that he sexually abused two female employee...

Having survived her unsparing tutelage, I, along with my friend and sparring partner, Alice Ristroph, have put together a conference within a conference at Law and Society in Denver in late May 2009. We'll have about 8 panels with approximately four panelists per session on a variety of subjects...

Once you start blogging, it doesn’t take long for people to find your blog and to start taking notice of what you say. And not just clients, although that might be the initial expectation. Herman Martinez, a criminal trial attorney in Houston who blogs at Houston Criminal Law Journal, started ...