31 Facts About Crime and Law to Yell in Court to Prove Your Innocence

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31 Facts About Crime and Law to Yell in Court to Prove Your Innocence
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These facts are great, but they can get a little annoying after a while. See, once they’re in your head, they yell out “Objection!” when any new fact that seems a little suspect enters your brain. You’ll have to become a judge of some kind, and yell “sustained” or “overruled” every time.

It’s exhausting, but if you’re a huge fan of facts about crime and the law, you might actually love it. Only one way to find out!

Colorado’s Make My Day Law

A Colorado inmate discovered legal shanking CRACKED.COM Colorado has a very cool law, probably named by a very cool and well-adjusted person, called the Make My Day law. Any degree of physical force is allowable against someone who breaks into your dwelling -- which now legally includes prison cells.

The Tree DNA That Caught A Murderer

(Tree) DNA caught a murderer. Yep. Trees. When a woman turned up strangled in Arizona with literally zero traces of anything useful to investigators on her body-police turned to something they could identify ... tree DNA. A tree branch at the murder scene had been scraped up, indicating an encounter with a moving vehicle. Beans from the tree were later found in the killer's truck which were then matched to a genetic database of tree DNA to prove they came from the same tree. CRACKED.COM

Lobster Theft

A former cook will serve 10 years in prison for the theft of steaks, lobster, and shrimp. CRACKED.COM Paul Diogenes used sto- len bank info from Rhode Island restaurants to buy $830,000 worth of deli- cacies, which he then sold back to the eateries he had defrauded.

Google Caught A Shoplifter

CRACKED savers savers phormacyEXPIR HEALTH HOME BEAUTY to de SOS ers so.ers 00 FOOD SMALT ec. ers CATCHING A SHOPLIFTER In 2016, a woman running out of a store in the UK was spotted by a guy on Google Street View. She was wearing the same clothes as when she was arrested for theft, which ended up being key evidence. Lesson: don't steal with a Google van around.

Express 

Showing Up to Court in A Stolen Car

WEIRD WORLD A woman showed up to her car theft court hearing in a stolen car. A woman was scheduled to make a court appearance after being arrested for stealing a car. When she arrived at the Dublin, CA courthouse, authorities determined she was driving a stolen Jail - less vehicle. She was taken back to Santa Rita than mile a

KRON4 

The Knife-Stealing Crow

A crow once stole evidence from a crime scene. Canuck the Crow went after cutlery, this time after the knife was dropped by an armed assailant that was arrested by police. CRACKED.COM

CBC 

Police Arrest Local Hero

Police arrest local hero CRACKED.co Houston man Dave Newman dove into a river and saved a drowning stranger from an underwater cave. He was promptly arrested upon returning to shore, because the cops had apparently been yelling, from the safety of dry land, that he should stand back and let them handle it.

Police Profiling

Profiling isn't all that useful, actually. Are profilers super-psychologists who can get into the criminal's mind without even meeting them? Hardly- research shows that law enforcement profilers are only slightly better at it than untrained randos.

Source: Vox

Lockdown in Britain

The British police told people they shouldn't snitch on lockdown violators. The police and crime commissioner for the Thames Valley says that's only n
Source: BBC News

The DeCavalcante Crime Family

The DiMeo crime family, from The Sopranos... ...is based on New Jersey's real-life DeCavalcante crime family.

The Insanity Defense

MYTH8 Want to get away with murder? Plead insanity. FAST8 That's not a Get Out of Jail Free card. The Insanity Defense is attempted in less than one p

The Bartender Left With the Tab

WEIRD WORLD A bartender in Las Vegas had to repay his boss after being robbed at gunpoint. Edward Parker was robbed at gunpoint, being told to kneel on the ground and put his hands behind his head, and then forced to repay his company the stolen money - totalling $3,937.35. CRACKED.COM

Source: NBC News

Corrupt Cops in Spain

CORRUPT COPS CRACKED.COM IN THE SPANISH CITY OF MERIDA, THE ENTIRE POLICE DRUG SQUAD WAS SHUT DOWN FOR CORRUPTION AND DRUG TRAFFICKING. POLIZEI S T E D ONE COP HAD BOASTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA: I HAVE AS MUCH MONEY AS PABLO ESCOBAR.

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Pablo Escobar’s Hippos

Cocaine hippos are running wild in Colombia. They're hippos imported to Colombia years ago by drug lord Pablo Escobar, and they've since escaped and started breeding like crazy. They're pooping all over a river basin in massive amounts, which is destroying the basin's ecosystem --sO some scientists are saying we

Source: The Cut

Target’s Forensic Labs

31 Facts About Crime and Law to Yell in Court to Prove Your Innocence
Source: Target

Movie-Making Money Laundering

Wolf of Wall Street, Dumb and Dumber To, and Daddy's Home are products of a huge Malaysian money laundering scheme. They were financed by the money si

The Hells Angels

CRACKEDCON D Uin UU 008 The infamous motorcycle club Hells Angels plotted to kill Mick Jagger after he called them out for fatally killing a man AT th

Pablo Escobar

To keep his daughter warm, drug lord Pablo Escobar burned $2 million in cash. Escobar's daughter Manuela became hypothermic during their stay in a mou

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