The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's website has a link to the affidavit and search warrant in the search that led to the death of Kathryn Johnston on November 21st, previously posted here.

The no-knock provision was based on the alleged surveillance cameras that the informant reported to the police which showed up in the affidavit. (No surveillance cameras or monitors were found.) The affidavit for the search warrant also described the house as having a wheelchair ramp in the front. The latter would seem to be a tip off to the police that there was somebody else in the house besides the alleged drug dealer, if they had bothered to investigate.

Duane Chapman, aka Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife Beth, will be on Larry King Live tonight discussing the extradition proceedings lodged against him in Mexico.

The Mexican federal courts will hear all of the evidence gathered by Bollard’s team at the Constitutional Hearing beginning on Monday, December 4, 2006 in Guadalajara. The district court will have to decide whether the charges against Duane, Leland and Tim Chapman should be dismissed or whether the extradition case should proceed further.

Dog says he is "haunted" by the proceedings and he's dying inside.

28 members of Congress are behind Dog, and have written to Condoleeza Rice asking her to help spare him from extradition. It's probably the only constructive request Tom Tancredo has ever made.

Yesterday I wrote about Sean Bell, the 23 year old who was gunned down Saturday night in a hail of gunfire by New York cops, hours before his Sunday wedding.

Today's New York Times has another article on the shooting, with one officer suggesting the phenomenon of "contagious shooting" took over:

The whole thing most likely took less than a minute. The officer who fired 31 times could have done so in fewer than 20 seconds, with the act of reloading taking less than one second, Mr. Cerar said. The 49 shots that followed the undercover detective’s first may have been contagious shooting, said one former police official who insisted on anonymity because the investigation is continuing.

“He shoots, and you shoot, and the assumption is he has a good reason for shooting. You saw it in Diallo. You see it in a lot of shootings,” the official said. “You just chime in. I don’t mean the term loosely. But you see your partner, and your reflexes take over.”

Turns out, this is not a novel theory.

Sean Bell, age 23, was shot and killed by police in a hail of bullets last night as he was leaving his bachelor party in Queens, just hours before his wedding.

Sean and his bride-to-be, 22 year old Nicole Paultre, had been together for several years and are the parents of two children, a three year old and a five year old.

More than 50 rounds were fired at the car he was driving. Sean was shot in the shoulder, neck and right arm. Two other young men were wounded.

O.J. Simpson's price for his book with a hypotheical confession was $880,000. Of that, $100k went to the ghost writer and the rest to his children.

His rationale: He had bills (including taxes) to pay.

His gripe: He has received more criticism that News Corp.

One final note: He tells the AP his book was not a confession. He didn't write the hypothetical chapter nor select the name of the book.

'It's all blood money and unfortunately I had to join the jackals,'' Simpson told The Associated Press, referring to authors of books about him. ''It helped me get out of debt and secure my homestead.''

Having your own Secret Service detail is no assurance of crime prevention as Bush daughter Barbara learned in Argentina this week:

First Daughter Barbara Bush had her purse and cell phone stolen as she had dinner in a restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, even though she was being guarded by a detail of Secret Service agents, according to law enforcement reports made available to ABC News.

One of the Secret Service agents, in a separate incident, got mugged.

A Secret Service agent on the advance detail got into an "altercation" with someone after a night out and was badly beaten, according to the law enforcement reports. The Secret Service said today the incident was an attempted mugging that occurred while the agent was on his own time. The agent is doing fine.

The Government has dropped its bid to reinstate the conviction of Ken Lay. The Government was hoping to use the criminal case as a means of going after his assets.

Lay died of a heart attack in July after being convicted in May of 10 fraud and conspiracy charges. U.S. District Judge Sim Lake threw out the verdicts under a legal principle that erases convictions of defendants who die before they can appeal.

The government moved yesterday to withdraw a Nov. 16 notice of an appeal of Lake's decision. Steven Tyrrell, chief of the Justice Department's fraud section, said in the document the government made the move after a bill to change the law was introduced in Congress. He didn't elaborate.

I think this just means the Government has decided to place all its apples in the civil forfeiture cart.

Donald Davis lost his legs 21 years ago after a man robbed him and left him on railroad tracks, where he was hit by a train. He gets around on his motorized wheelchair. At least, he did until September, when he was hit by a car.

"She didn't have her lights on or I would have seen her," he said. "She backed into me, hit my chair and flipped me over. I hurt my head."

Davis disagrees with the police report, which says his wheelchair was undamaged. The officer apparently didn't see the bent wheel. He also disagrees with the two citations he received: one for failing to display a light on his wheelchair, and one for failing to sign the first citation.

An ambulance took Davis to a hospital after the accident. He doesn't recall being asked to sign the citation.

"I woke up and had my wallet and two tickets laying on my chest," he said.

Florida has opened a criminal investigation into his e-mails and conduct.

"It was a preliminary inquiry before, but we found the basis to open up a criminal investigation," Kristen Perezluha, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said Thursday. She would not elaborate, citing the ongoing investigation. The FBI is also investigating whether Foley broke any federal laws.

What might the charges be?

Florida law prohibits seducing or attempting to seduce a minor. However, authorities have said the term "seduce" is open to interpretation.

If there is no evdience of actual physical seduction of minors, they ought to save the taxpayers' money or spend it on real child molesters. Splitting hairs over the definition of "seduce" is overkill.

The Osama bin Laden costume isn't as popular on Halloween as the toga, but masquerading as a celebrity terrorist hardly warrants a criminal prosecution.

Tom Connolly, of Scarborough, was charged with terrorizing, criminal threatening and reckless conduct for his Oct. 31 protest held just off I-295 near Exit 3 that led to an arrest by South Portland police. Connolly's court date is set for Dec. 19.

Passing motorists complained about Connolly, who was holding a sign that said "I love TABOR." Connolly, a lawyer, was making a political point that may have been obscure to the driving public. The prosecutor claims Connolly's prop gun was the problem, but Connolly thought the orange-tipped squirt gun could not reasonably have been mistaken for an actual gun.

Who was terrorized here? C'mon, disturbed drivers, did you really think that Osama was standing by the road in Maine? Did you not know it was Halloween? Why did you think Osama cared about TABOR? Get a grip. Charging Connolly with "terrorizing" for engaging in costumed political speech is an abuse of power.

by Last Night in Little Rock

In one of the ultimate war crimes, an Army soldier in Ft. Cambell, Ky. has pled guilty to murder and rape of Iraqis, as reported today on USAToday.com

He pled, according to his lawyer, to avoid the death penalty.

O.J. Simpson is back in the news. He's written a book, scheduled to be published November 30, entitled "``If I Did It, Here's How It Happened.''

Fox said Tuesday it will air a two-part interview with O.J. Simpson at month's end in which he describes the 1994 murders of his ex-wife and her friend that he says he didn't commit.

....Fox said Simpson's book ``hypothetically describes'' how he would have committed the murders. The special will air at 9 p.m. November 27 and 29 on Fox.