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Navajo News ( Navajo Sunshine Sykes Appointed First Riverside County American Indian Judge )

 by Levi Rickert / Currents / 05 Dec 2013        

Newly Appointed Judge Sunshine Sykes (Navajo)

SACRAMENTO – California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Sunshine S. Sykes to a judgeship in the Riverside County Superior Court. She will be sworn in before the end of the year.
Sykes is a tribal citizen of the Navajo Nation and was born to the Coyote Pass Clan.
She will become the first American Indian ever to be appointed to the Riverside County Superior Court, according to the court officials.
Sykes is a graduate of Stanford University Law School. She has an undergraduate Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Stanford University majoring in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis and graduated with honors in 1997.
After taking a year off and working as an intern at California Indian Legal Services in Oakland, CA, she began Stanford Law School. During law school, she clerked at California Indian Legal Services in Oakland, California and DNA People’s Legal Services in Tuba City, Arizona focusing on issues concerning federal Indian law.
Sykes, 39, of Riverside, California, has served as a deputy county counsel at the Riverside County Office of County Counsel since 2005. She was a contract attorney at the Juvenile Defense Panel from 2003 to 2005. Sykes was a staff attorney and Equal Justice Works fellow at the California Indian Legal Services from 2001 to 2003. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University.

Honduras ( 2 women found dismembered - 300 women k...

JOE'S CRIME BLOG/HUMAN RIGHT'S SITE: Honduras ( 2 women found dismembered - 300 women k...: TEGUCIGALPA – The dismembered bodies of two women were found Tuesday in the Honduran capital, where an average of 20 people die violently e...

Honduras ( 2 women found dismembered - 300 women killed this year in Houduras )

TEGUCIGALPA – The dismembered bodies of two women were found Tuesday in the Honduran capital, where an average of 20 people die violently each day, police said.

The victims, who were between 25 and 30 years old, were “strangled and dismembered,” the source told reporters.

Both bodies showed “severe signs of torture” and were found on a Tegucigalpa street.

So far this year, at least 300 women have been murdered in Honduras, according to human rights organizations.

Honduras suffered 85.5 homicides for every 100,000 residents in 2012, compared with a global median rate of 8.8 murders per 100,000, the Violence Observatory at the National Autonomous University said in a study released in February.

Mexico ( 3 men arrested for killing 200 people ) Drug wars

Police Arrest 3 Men Wanted for Over 200 Murders in Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Three members of a criminal organization were arrested by the Federal Police in the western state of Jalisco in connection with more than 200 murders, as well as kidnappings and extortion, the Mexican National Security Commission said Tuesday.

Felipe Viveros Garcia, 30, Jose Bernabe Lopez Alcaraz, 43, and Froylan Barrera Morales, 40, allegedly committed “the crimes of criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, extortion, murder and arms trafficking and possession,” the commission said in a statement.

The suspects’ arrests, which were carried out in a joint operation with the Attorney General’s Office, were the result of an investigation by the Federal Police in the cities of Tomatlan and Zapopan, the commission said without providing the date of the arrests.

Viveros Garcia ordered and participated in more than 200 killings of kidnapping victims, members of rival gangs and drug dealers in different cities in Jalisco and the southern state of Guerrero, investigators said.

The suspect has been “linked to at least 10 documented kidnapping cases” and extortion rackets targeting “different authorities in the state of Jalisco,” the commission said.

Lopez Alcaraz and Barrera Morales allegedly led gangs that monitored the activities of the authorities, provided security to members of the criminal organization and managed communications gear, the National Security Commission said.

Kidnapping victims “were sometimes subjected to long periods of captivity at camps set up as safe houses,” the commission said.

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Man vs. Fish ( Who's fishing for who ? ) Body slammed on Dock !

Cool video otherwise, only a bit too stressful for the fish. A fisherman was baiting large fish by dangling a tiny one off a pier when a monster fish leapt from the water and latched onto his arm. As the woman yelled shit like “OMG baby, catch it“, the fisherman forced his other arm through fish’s gills and pulled it out of the water, battling it on the pier. Just as it started to look like the fish is bound to become supper, the fisherman stumbled on it, fell and the fish slipped back into the pond. Poor fish, annoying woman.