Law Education

The partially decomposed remains of a man found Sunday in a remote area of Dunns Creek State Park have been identified as 37-year-old Dwight S. McDaniel of Satsuma.

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said it’s an apparent suicide. McDaniel, a registered sex offender, had been missing since Jan. 31. It was initially thought he may have absconded because of his sex-offender status. McDaniel was last seen walking over the Dunns Creek Bridge near the area where his body was eventually found.

He was convicted in 1991 on charges of sexual battery and false imprisonment, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s registered sexual offender database. 

MIAMI — Cheered by new polls, Mitt Romney is all but predicting victory in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary. Newt Gingrich is looking past Florida to regroup, vowing he won’t stay buried long.

“With a turnout like this, I’m beginning to feel we might win tomorrow,” an upbeat Romney told a crowd of several hundred at a stop in Dunedin on Monday as he and Gingrich zipped across the state making their final appeals.

Gingrich, in turn, acknowledged that his momentum had been checked but promised not to back down. He characterized Romney as an imposter, and his team started to plot a strategy for upcoming contests.

“He can bury me for a very short amount of time with four or five or six times as much money,” Gingrich said in a television interview.

Find more info…

Job applicants sought but only if they don’t need work.

The message in some job advertisements these days is pretty blunt: Don’t bother sending a rsum if you’re not bringing home a paycheck already.

The ads list current or recent employment as an eligibility requirement, a screen to narrow the pool of candidates in a rocky economy that often leads to dozens of applicants for a single job.

A random search of online job listings last year by the National Employment Law Project, a nonprofit advocacy group, found 150 ads nationwide that excluded applicants based on employment status.

Find more info…

A pregnant woman was raped, murdered and her unborn daughter killed in a brutal knife attack in her flat, a jury has heard.

Nikitta Grender, who was due to give birth in two weeks, was sexually assaulted before being stabbed in the neck and stomach by Carl Whant, the court was told. The knife penetrated the body of her child, whom she had already named Kelsey-May.

Newport crown court in south Wales heard that Whant, 27, a nightclub bouncer, then set fire to the bed Grender was lying on in an attempt to cover up his crime.

Whant, who took notes as the prosecution outlined its case, denies rape, murder, child destruction and arson.

Gregg Taylor, prosecuting, said Grender, 19, and her boyfriend Ryan Mayes, 18, had been looking forward to the birth of their child.

Find more info…

SYRACUSE — Some good news for Syracuse, crime rates are going down.  2011 was safer in the city when compared to the last two years.

There were 13 homicides in Syracuse, a number that has been decreasing since 2009.  Burglaries, stolen cars and other serious crimes are also down.

Its not all rosy in the city, as one crime stat is on its way up. In 2011 Syracuse Police received 273 calls for shots being fired, up from the prior year. The number of people injured when shots are fired is also up 16%.

Syracuse Police are already taking action, a community policing team called, “sweep” will be hitting the streets. Chief Frank Fowler says the numbers overall are good news. “

Find more info…