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Dulaney Out Of Pagans Case
William L. Dulaney, a college professor who studies motorcycle outlaws, has withdrawn as an expert witness in the Pagans Motorcycle Club RICO case in Charleston, West Virginia. Dulaney (above) is a former member of the American Outlaws Association who has become a common source for journalists seeking insight into the outlaw world. He has appeared [...]
Continue reading...RICO’s Greatest Hits
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
The great war of the legal briefs is still unfolding in the Pagans case in Charleston, West Virginia. It is boring so we will try to be brief. But it is important anyway because it is case about whether motorcycle clubs are inherently rackets or fundamentally something else. In particular, it is a case about [...]
Continue reading...Pagans Case Withering
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
The federal case against the Pagans Motorcycle Club in Charleston, West Virginia continues to dry up and blow away. The earliest any trial will begin now is June 4th. This Titanic fiasco may not get far. Last week, 13 of the remaining defendants pled guilty to a misdemeanor, state gambling offense and paid a five [...]
Continue reading...The RICO Defense Laboratory
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Pagans Motorcycle Club case in Charleston, West Virginia has become a laboratory of ways to defend motorcycle clubs against racketeering prosecutions. A small, hard core of defense lawyers in the case have been fighting the fundamental assumption that underlies these cases: Which is, briefly stated, that police bureaucracies want motorcycle clubs portrayed as criminal [...]
Continue reading...Crime And Punishment
Thursday, March 11, 2010
A hard core of defense attorneys in the Pagans Motorcycle Club case in Charleston, West Virginia continues to attack the assumptions that support almost every motorcycle club RICO case. Maybe somebody at the ATF should call Assistant US Attorney Steven Ian Loew and tell him to just give up now before his stupid, inept, harebrained [...]
Continue reading...Pagans Plea Rejected
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Now plea deals are starting to bounce in the federal racketeering case in Charleston West Virginia against members and associates of the Pagans Motorcycle Club. A hard core of the defense lawyers in this case have refused to just roll over for the prosecution like good legal professionals, and wave their little white flags in [...]
Continue reading...Suppressing Indicia Warrants
Sunday, March 7, 2010
The Department of Justice obviously knocked over a hornet’s nest when it decided to indict 55 members and associates of the Pagans Motorcycle Club in Charleston, West Virginia. Maybe Charleston should be famous for its defense lawyers. Last Thursday an attorney named Tim Carrico acting on behalf of a client named Eric W. Wolfe attacked [...]
Continue reading...Pagans Case In Mid-Storm
Thursday, March 4, 2010
A hurricane of paper has been hammering the Pagans case for weeks. Maybe the prosecution isn’t ruined yet but the shingles are flying off. The shutters are flapping like wings. The doors are chattering against their frames. And in the odd moment when you can see through all those flying defense motions it looks like [...]
Continue reading...Twelfth Pagan Plea Deal
Monday, January 11, 2010
There have been twelve plea bargaining agreements in the Pagans case now unfolding in Charleston, West Virginia. Last October 23rd, Timothy A. Flood, the former President of the Northeast Philadelphia chapter of the club pled guilty to helping the Pagans run an illegal lottery. The plea deal was unsealed last Thursday, January 7th. Flood pled [...]
Continue reading...More Pagans Pleas
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Two more defendants in the big government case against the Pagans Motorcycle Club agreed to plea and sentencing agreements last Friday. Michael Roy “Butterbean” Sneed, 43, of Charleston, West Virginia and Thomas “Grumpy” Morris, 67, of Dunbar, West Virginia have both agreed to “be forthright and truthful with (prosecutors) and other law enforcement agencies with [...]
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Monday, May 17, 2010
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