One of Bruce Steinberg’s first brushes with anti-Semitism came when he was a student at the University of Illinois and was refused an apartment because he is Jewish, he said.
But it wouldn’t be his last. After becoming an assistant Kane County public defender, Steinberg, 50, was twice assigned to represent neo-Nazis.
Now a private criminal defense [...]
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Jul
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May
It’s all a mystery to Bruce Steinberg of St. Charles — except for the good reviews his soon-to-be-released book “River Ghosts” has received.
Steinberg, a former Kane County prosecutor and public defender now in private practice in Batavia, provides a summary of his book, authored under his pseudonym of B.R. Robb.
“I’m a middle-aged white Jewish guy [...]
2
Feb
District Attorney Mitch Morrissey has charged a man with murder in the 2005 death of a disabled woman who was fatally stabbed and beaten.
Gerald Cooper, 47, has been charged with first-degree murder, two counts of felony murder, first-degree burglary and sexual contact with force.
Authorities did not release the name of the murder victim, [...]
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Jan
Larimer County District Attorney Larry Abrahamson’s office has filed a motion to dismiss murder charges against Tim Masters.
“The dismissal was based on newly discovered evidence that justifies further investigation, namely DNA test results which were not available at the time of Peggy Hettrick’s murder in 1987 nor at the time of Timothy Master’s original [...]
2
Jan
The FBI is making a new stab at identifying mysterious skyjacker Dan Cooper, who bailed out of an airliner in 1971 and vanished, releasing new details that it hopes will jog someone’s memory.
The man calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest flight in Portland for a flight to Seattle on [...]
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Dec
Duke case: Fair, smart and right from the start independent women
Posted by admin Published in Novel SummaryThe real Duke lacrosse scandal is that the criminal justice system was perverted because (1) a pathetic political opportunist saw his chance and took it, (2) his pandering to black voters worked in Durham County, North Carolina and (3) the politically correct/hardline feminist folks especially in the media and at Duke wanted it to be [...]
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Dec
Fiction
“The Mission Song” by John le Carr%26#233; (Back Bay, $14.99). In le Carr%26#233;’s latest, a half-Congolese, half-Irish language interpreter overhears something he was never meant to hear at a meeting between Western financiers and African warlords %26#8212; with tangled consequences. Adam Woog called this “a bittersweet, beautifully written, absorbing story of a bright but naive [...]
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Dec
Duke case: Fair, smart and right from the start independent women
Posted by admin Published in Novel SummaryThe real Duke lacrosse scandal is that the criminal justice system was perverted because (1) a pathetic political opportunist saw his chance and took it, (2) his pandering to black voters worked in Durham County, North Carolina and (3) the politically correct/hardline feminist folks especially in the media and at Duke wanted it to be [...]
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