A new court order has been issued appointing an amicus curiae in the case of a serial arsonist who was declared a dangerous offender. The tragic case of Patrick Frank Warren is now in its ninth year as an Ontario superior court judge grapples with a profound dilemma at the ...
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Digital folk hero Luigi Mangione admitted to a New York federal judge yesterday that he fatally shot health insurance executive Brian Thompson. "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died," Mr. Mangione said. He entered the plea without a deal so there is no guarantee it will mitigate the ...
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A cocaine smuggler has been denied reprieve from his conviction by Justice M.J. Lucille Shaw and a jury in a recent ruling issued by the Ontario Court of Appeal. Justice S.A. Gomery held that Samuel Osei-Tutu's right to a fair trial was not prejudiced by the failure of Justice Shaw ...
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Three Russian nationals have been charged with malicious cyber activities in an indictment returned by a grand jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Two corporate defendants based in St. Petersburg are alleged to have provided bulletproof hosting services from which malware and ransomware ...
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The United States Supreme Court has ruled that geofence warrants authorizing law enforcement to search cell phone location history from a crime scene violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The sweeping warrants have often been criticized as an unconstitutional dragnet allowing police to collect this ...
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Fentanyl is a dangerous synthetic opioid more potent than heroin and morphine with a high risk of accidental overdose. It is often sold on the street mixed with other drugs and in counterfeit pills made to look like prescription opioids. In recognition of the dangers associated with fentanyl use the ...
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A United States citizen and New York resident has been convicted of acting as an illegal agent of the People's Republic of China for running a secret police station from a building in the Chinatown neighbourhood of Manhattan. Federal prosecutors claimed the Beijing government uses global outposts to target dissidents ...
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Compelled production of a passcode for a digital device by state authorities violates the right to silence under s. 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But whether the compelled use of biometrics yields the same result has been an open question. And a recent ruling of the ...
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A young man who laundered $3.5 million for a crime syndicate dubbed the Crypto Kids has been sentenced to 70 months by a federal judge in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Investigators said the group formed through online gaming platforms and squandered its loot on ...
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Ali Lalji got involved in a cocaine smuggling conspiracy during the time he worked at Vice Media where he made friends with Yaroslav Pastukhov. They used the company’s headquarters in Toronto, Canada, to recruit couriers for the operation. But the plot may now be less remembered for its notoriety than ...
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