Martin “Pharma Bro” Shkreli earned national attention in September 2015 when a company he founded earlier the same year, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired the drug Daraprim and raised its price from $13.50 to $750 per tablet. That’s an astronomical increase of 5,000%. However, a fraudulent scheme involving three other companies he founded is what landed him …
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The Demise of the Gay (and Trans) Panic Defense
On September 27, 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown adopted Assembly Bill No. 2501 (“A.B. 2501”), which amended California Penal Code § 192 in a manner that effectively bans the gay (trans) panic defense. Section 192 defines voluntary manslaughter as “the unlawful killing of a human being without malice upon a sudden quarrel or heat of …
- March 12, 2018
- Alex Cook
Was Aaron Hernandez’s Suicide an Attempt to Preserve His Family’s Inheritance?
In June 2013, Aaron Hernandez, former professional football player for the New England Patriots, was charged with the slaying of his acquaintance, Odin Lloyd. While being tried for the Lloyd murder, Hernandez was indicted for his alleged role in a 2012 double homicide in Boston that took the lives of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro …
- January 4, 2018
- Alex Cook