By Doug Wyllie South Carolina’s Fifth Judicial Circuit Court Solicitor Byron Gipson won the office in 2018 after crushing incumbent—and fellow-Democrat—Dan Johnson 72% to 28% in the primary and defeating write-in candidate John Meadors in the general. Before that he was a defense attorney. What better professional background can a person have to prosecute criminals Read more »
By Doug Wyllie Late last month, officers with the San Antonio Police Department responded to reports of a man with a “long gun” in his possession getting into the passenger seat of a vehicle with an as-yet-unidentified person behind the wheel. It’s worth noting that seeing a man with a rifle in Texas is a Read more »
By Doug Wyllie On a typical Wednesday in late August, a convicted felon was out on bond—because, progress—when he decided to skip a scheduled court appearance in Harris County related to charges (filed in March 2023) of Assault of a Family Member and being a Felon in Possession of Firearm. According to ABC News, in Read more »
By Doug Wyllie Remember when that flight attendant quit his job? It was in all the papers. It was epic. One entirely unremarkable day in early August 2010, JetBlue Flight 1052 touched down at New York’s JFK airport—as it had countless times before. As the Embraer 190 commuter jet taxied to the gate, something of Read more »
By Doug Wyllie Late last month, a man—identified as 33-year-old Deyonne White—was arrested in Contra Costa County (CA) almost exactly one month after a judge dismissed murder charges against him in neighboring Alameda County. According to the San Jose Mercury News, White was nabbed when he reportedly drove up to a hotel with juvenile females Read more »
By Doug Wyllie Standing at a distance—and not even a particularly great distance at that—an objective outside observer might surmise that the political “powers that be” in San Francisco are intentionally trying to drive their city and its citizens off the edge of a tall cliff. San Francisco’s current descent into the abyss began nearly Read more »
By Doug Wyllie It reads like a plot from a “crime drama” on Amazon or Hulu or Netflix—except it was a real plot, in the real world, with a real victim, real perpetrators, and real consequences. In the small hours of the morning in early March 2018, police responded to a “shots fired” 911 call Read more »
By Doug Wyllie Late last week, police in Nevada ended a weeks-long search for a man who had fled after he reportedly raped a 16-year-old girl. Court documents indicate that the rape allegedly occurred—in a place called Bountiful, Utah—”while the victim was asleep and was forceful.” Almost immediately after committing the sexual attack, 36-year-old Christopher Read more »
By Doug Wyllie In the early hours of the day on an early day in July, an innocent 31-year-old husband and father of four was gunned down in a senseless and seemingly random violent crime in our Nation’s Capital city. Nasrat Ahmad Yar had spent much of his adult life working in service to the Read more »
By Doug Wyllie Larry Krasner is in the news again. This makes Larry Krasner happy. Larry Krasner will tell you he’s not happy—he’ll appear stern and serious and surly, act incensed and irate and ill-tempered—but when he’s in the news, Larry Krasner is happy. This is because with only rare exceptions, Larry Krasner is all Read more »