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RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Lawyer With Ties to GOP Apparently Died From “Huffing”
Cross Posted at Legal Schnauzer Investigators at the scene saw evidence that Alabama attorney Chace Swatek died from the effects of inhalant abuse, a source tells Legal Schnauzer . The abuse of inhalants , known in street lingo as “huffing,” involves the sniffing of volatile vapors for their intoxicating effects. Chemical vapors that are inhaled for recreational purposes can [...]
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RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Drug Addiction Is Key Issue In Divorce Case Against Siegelman Judge
Cross Posted at Legal Schnauzer The divorce complaint filed against U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller raises a number of troubling issues . But possible drug addiction might be No. 1 on the list. Lisa Boyd Fuller’s complaint includes no shortage of titillating issues, including extramarital affairs and domestic abuse. But those go primarily to Mark Fuller’s character [...]
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RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Orkin Pest Control Employees Turned Forgery Sessions Into Pizza Parties
Cross Posted at Legal Schnauzer
We’ve reported on a lot of outrages in the almost five years that we’ve been writing a blog on justice issues. But perhaps our most outrageous post came last week when we reported that employees for Orkin Pest Control had hosted pizza parties to forge customer signatures on termite inspections that had not been [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Bush Appointee Provides Cover for Crooked Federal Judge
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The chief judge of the U.S. Eleventh Circuit is ignoring overwhelming evidence that one of his trial-court brethren is acting corruptly in my employment lawsuit against the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).This will not come as a surprise to regular Legal Schnauzer readers. In both the Don Siegelman and Paul Minor criminal prosecutions, we’ve [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Federal Judge Lowers the Boom In Child Pornography Case
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A 61-year-old Alabama man received a 30-year prison sentence this week after pleading guilty to child pornography charges. The case reportedly also involved instances of child sexual abuse Michael Wayne Wooten, of Alabaster, is a former Birmingham police officer and substitute bus driver in Shelby County. Wooten pleaded guilty in January to one count of production [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: CEO Ted Rollins: A Member of “1 Percent” Gets Gentle Treatment When Charged With Assault
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North Carolina has an unusually complex set of assault laws, covering dozens of varieties of assaults, with four levels of misdemeanors and 10 levels of felonies. By comparison, Alabama assault law is a model of simplicity . But it doesn’t take much research into North Carolina’s byzantine criminal system to realize this: Someone cut Ted Rollins [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Conflict Arises As Siegelman Case Inches Toward SCOTUS
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John-Alex Romano is the government lawyer who wrote a brief filed this month that opposes U.S. Supreme Court review of the Don Siegelman prosecution in Alabama. That, in itself, is not newsworthy. But when you consider that Romano is married to Caroline Gary Romano, chief of staff in the U.S. Department of Interior . . . [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Hunting Clubs Provide a Nexus for Corruption Involving Judges and Lawyers
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A federal judge improperly dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Alabama lawyers and judges conspired through a hunting club to fix divorce cases in Jefferson County. The unlawful dismissal meant plaintiffs were not allowed to conduct discovery in order to prove their case. That indicates the federal judiciary is deeply invested in hiding evidence that would prove [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Is the Orkin Man Worse Than the Bugs He’s Supposed to Poison?
Cross Posted at Legal SchnauzerWe’ve established that Ted Rollins, the CEO of Campus Crest Communities, has a tendency to act with dubious ethics. (See here and here.) And we’ve shown that Rollins’ ethics matter because he leads a company that completed a $380-million IPO on Wall Street in late 2010 and has gone on to build, manage, and [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Cases of Child Sexual Abuse Keep On Coming
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A retired teacher from Alabaster, Alabama, pleaded guilty to eight counts of child sexual abuse yesterday in Shelby County Circuit Court. Daniel M. Acker Jr. received prison sentences that will be served concurrently over 17 years. Acker was arrested in January after admitting that he had molested more than 20 girls over his 25-year teaching career. [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Lying Under Oath Has Replaced Baseball As America’s Pastime
Cross Posted at Legal SchnauzerFrom an obscure small-claims case to a high-profile murder case, our justice system rides on a quaint notion–that people will tell the truth when under oath in an official proceeding. If you have a conscience and ever become entangled in a legal controversy, you probably will be shocked to notice early on that [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Wall Street Darling Ted Rollins Once Was Convicted for the Assault of His Stepson
Cross Posted at Legal SchnauzerTed Rollins, CEO of Wall Street darling Campus Crest Communities, was convicted of assault in the 1995 beating of his stepson. Despite his criminal record, Rollins leads a company that in late 2010 completed a $380-million IPO on Wall Street. Campus Crest Communities has gone on to build, manage, and market student housing to [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Meet A Corrupt Federal Judge That Ronald Reagan Gave Us
Cross Posted at Legal SchnauzerWe explained in a post last week how U.S. District Judge William M. Acker Jr. cheated me in a federal lawsuit over my unlawful termination at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). But you don’t have to take my word for it; Acker’s own words prove the point.Acker is an 84-year-old Ronald Reagan appointee, [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Here’s the Backstory On My “Neighbor From Hell”
Cross Posted at Legal SchnauzerWhen Mike McGarity became our new next-door neighbor in December 1998, my wife and I only needed a few encounters with him to have this burning question: “Where in the hell did this guy come from?” Having lived in Alabama for 30-plus years, I’ve gotten used to Southern accents and even have come to [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: University Presidents Weave a Multi-State Trail of Deception
Cross Posted at Legal SchnauzerIn our previous segments, we focused on misuse of public funds by former University of Tennessee president John Shumaker and UAB president Carol Garrison. The scandal, with Garrison near its center, resulted in Shumaker’s resignation. A close review of published reports about the episode shows that it involved more than just poor judgment on the [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: How Did CEO Ted Rollins Avoid Scrutiny In Child-Abuse Case?
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The brutal beating that Ted Rollins inflicted upon his stepson in 1995 should have been treated, under the law, for what it was–a case of child abuse. Our research shows the case was not handled properly, and numerous individuals failed in their obligation to report the abuse to the North Carolina Division of Social Services. [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Ever Had a “Neighbor From Hell”? Here’s A Story About Mine
Cross Posted at Legal SchnauzerThe courtroom misery that my wife and I have experienced, on the surface, seems like a story of legal intrigue. But upon closer inspection, you find what Hollywood might call a “psychological thriller.”That’s because Mike McGarity, the troublesome neighbor who initiated our law-related headaches, comes from a background of intense family dysfunction. I [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Child Sexual Abusers Are A Crafty And Elusive Bunch
Cross Posted at Legal SchnauzerThe public’s general reaction to a case of child sexual abuse probably goes something like this: “The adult who did that is evil and should burn in hell.”Such a response is understandable, but abusers tend to be smart –and that can make it extremely difficult to intervene in child sexual abuse cases. That was the take-home [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: Why Did A Lawyer, 35, Die On A Walk To The Drugstore?
Cross Posted at Legal SchnauzerAlabama lawyer Chace Swatek died while in the midst of a two-mile roundtrip walk to a drugstore, according to details released by the Pelham Police Department.The cause of death remains undetermined, pending results of a toxicology report that is expected to take six months to a year . Swatek’s body was discovered on February 15 behind [...] -
RogerShuler wrote a new diary post: CEO of Wall Street Darling Once Beat His Stepson to a Bloody Pulp
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Ted Rollins is the CEO of a company that in late 2010 completed a $380-million IPO on Wall Street–and as head of Campus Crest Communities, Rollins markets student housing to young people. So it is grimly ironic that the same Ted Rollins once beat a young person so severely that the teen-ager’s face was [...] - Load More
