Colon, No. 07-3929 Conviction for possession with intent to sell cocaine and conspiracy is affirmed in part and reversed in part, and sentence vacated and remanded where: 1) the seizure of defendant was based on reasonable suspicion; but 2) defendant's routine buyer-seller relationship with the participants in a drug conspiracy did not by itself make him a co-conspirator or an aider and abettor of the conspiracy. [read post]

. * 162 BC: Eleazar Maccabeus was crushed to death at the Battle of Beth-zechariah by a War elephant that he believed to be carrying Seleucid King Antiochus V; charging in to battle, Eleazar rushed underneath the elephant and thrust a spear into its belly, whereupon it fell dead on top of him * 4 BC: Herod the Great suffered from fever, intense rashes, colon pains, foot drop, inflammation of the abdomen, a putrefaction of his genitals that produced worms, convulsions, and… [read post]