by sumac | Nov 6, 2012 | True Crime Apologies
Why do courts and newspapers fail to print apologies in full? It is not enough to say that someone apologized, we need to know precisely what was said. Recently, in New Zealand’s Whanganui District Court, Steven Burlace was sentenced to two years and eight...
by sumac | Oct 14, 2012 | True Crime Apologies
Determined to take the residents of a house containing a meth lab by surprise, the SWAT team struck before dawn. At six am they surrounded the house, knocked down the front door, and deployed a flash grenade or flash-bang at a bedroom window. This grenade explodes...
by sumac | Oct 8, 2012 | True Crime Apologies
The Metro Narcotics Task Force in Salt Lake City was alerted by the SLC police department that drug activity was going on in an apparently innocent home on Hubbard Avenue. Cognizant of the deceptive ways of drug dealers, the Task Force did not give them time to...
by sumac | Sep 30, 2012 | True Crime Apologies
“Tearful Saco woman apologizes in court to ‘best friend’ for stabbing him 29 times.” That’s the great headline the Bangor Daily News did for a story from the Journal Tribune (of York County, Maine) . You can’t just mutter “Four times would have been...
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