With a few noteworthy exceptions, people who meet Richard McNair tend to find him likable. He typically has an engaging and relaxed manner, chatty and unhurried; a former employer characterized him as having “an outgoing, lovable personality.” When McNair was younger, women were drawn to him because he was good-looking: six feet tall, wiry and [...]
Jobs in criminal justice range from representing accused criminals to keeping a trial running smoothly. Career World takes a look at the many jobs in one courtroom. Gareth Whyte is led into the Westchester County Courthouse in White Plains, N.Y., in handcuffs. Two months earlier, a jury convicted Whyte of violently attacking his girlfriend. She [...]
Robert Pinkerton knew a good detective when he saw one, and in his opinion Isaiah Lees was the best of the breed in 19th-century San Francisco. With unprecedented police work, Lees put a lid on crime in one of America’s wildest cities of the time. If Sherlock Holmes had existed he might have taken lessons [...]
The Second Amendment gives Americans the right “to keep and bear arms.” But people disagree over exactly What that means For most of his life, 14-year-old David Mlostek has been around guns. David, an eighth-grader at Bark River-Harris School in Harris, Michigan, lives on a dairy farm. He has a special permit to shoot deer [...]