MedWorm Tags: felony

Deep Thoughts: Wisdom From The ER

Better Health — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:00:38 +0100

If you’re alleging assault, don’t get loud with the Officer there to take a report. Especially if you have Felony warrants. *This blog post was originally published at GruntDoc* (Source: Better Health)

Keeping Your Boyfriend While In Prison: Piper Kerman, Author of "Orange Is the New Black" Opens Up on Video

Breastfeeding 1-2-3 — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:42:58 +0100

Watch the previous installment of our exclusive video chat with Piper Kerman, where she opens up about spending six years in limbo before she was locked up in prison. When Piper Kerman was 34, she was sent to federal prison for a ten-year-old drug smuggling and money laundering offense. She spent 13 months in a minimum-security correctional facility for women in Danbury, CT, which isn’t necessarily what you’d expect from a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Smith graduate and Red Sox fan from a nice, New England family. Piper’s excellent memoir about her prison experience, Orange Is the New Black, was just published by Random House – with back cover blurbs by Dave Eggers and Elizabeth Gilbert (not too shabby for a first-time writer). Piper sat down with Blisstree for the af...

Felony Charges for Recording a Plainclothes Officer

Cato-at-liberty — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:23:42 +0100

By David RittgersYesterday I wrote about the University of Maryland student beaten by police and falsely charged with assault during a post-game celebration. I concluded with a warning that a law barring citizens from taking photos or videos of law enforcement officers (such as those in force in Great Britain) would have prevented the false charges and beating from coming to light. I did not know that Maryland was already heading that direction. Video: // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"22384",accSite:"WMAR",accPos:"CCTVI.NEWS.LOCAL",categoryID:"14",rootCategory:"",domain:"wmar.web.entriq.net",playerInstanceID:"24FAD9E0-DC70-2532-414F-7E6F051C4C2F",videoAdConDefID:"2",videoAdObjectID:"4",bannerAdObjectID:"5"}); // ]]> Anthony Graber was riding his motorcycle...

Teenage Bullying Leads to 9 Indictments

World of Psychology — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:17:02 +0100

You know things have gotten bad when prosecutors start prosecuting teens — some on felony charges that could result in significant jail time — because of bullying. Yes, bullying. Most of us have experienced bullying at one point in our lives, or know someone who has been bullied. Of course for most, the bullying didn’t result in lifelong scars. Part of that is because the extremes of bullying were not really known 20 or 30 years ago. You couldn’t bully someone 24/7 through Facebook, Twitter, email and forums devoted entirely to making other people’s lives miserable (yes, such online communities exist). So nowadays sometimes bullying is taken to an extreme. Not by one or two teens or kids, but by a whole gang of them. In central Massachusetts, it led Phoebe P...

The End of Remote Prescribing

World of Psychology — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:00:33 +0100

There’s long been a gray market in the U.S. for prescription medications that can be had online without actually having a prescription. Erectile dysfunction medications are the most common such prescriptions. This practice has commonly been done on websites based in India or another country. The prescription is then forwarded to a pharmacy clearinghouse in the U.S. that has contracted with physicians to write prescriptions for such orders. How can a doctor do this without a physical exam? Easy! It’s called a form that the customer fills out on the prescription website. The doc reviews the form and ostensibly ensures the customer has no pre-existing condition that may cause untoward side effects with the sought-after prescription. But this business, which has been going on for y...

Parent Advocate Arrested on Charges of Defrauding AZ School District

Autism Vox — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:45:52 +0100

An Arizona man, Raymond G. Parenteau, was arrested on Wednesday on the charges of allegedly defrauding the Prescott Unified School District of almost $20,000, today’s Daily Courier reports. Parenteau had contracted with the school district for $55 an hour to homeschool his 12-year-old autistic son; he is alleged to have hired a certified special education instructor to work with his son for $25 an hour, and to have kept $30 for himself: During a nine-month period starting in January 2007, Parenteau allegedly charged the school district $36,258. He paid the special education assistant only $16,262 of the money he received from PUSD. Parenteau also allegedly billed the school district for hours not used for teaching his son and created false invoices. Says Parenteau, who has also advoc...

Boy Duct-taped By Father

Autism Vox — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:04:35 +0100

A 5-year-old Arizona boy was bound at his hands and feet with duct tape by his father, as reported in today’s AZFamily.com. Jasper Smalley has been diagnosed with “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Bi-polar Disorder and Asperger’s Syndrome.” Here’s what allegedly occurred: [Jasper’s mother, April Smalley] says one day her ex-husband found out Jasper was caught hitting other children at daycare. “He called me after he had taped him up and told me he had duct-taped our son. I asked him to remove the tape immediately, and he said he wouldn’t. He said he was being punished.” It was a punishment that made its mark in Jasper who was bound at his wrists and ankles. April explains, “There were red abrasions on his wrists. It looked almost like where the tap...