Criminal Conversation

• Criminal Conversation

A TORT under COMMON LAW that...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Com–Dor

• Novel, 'When She Woke'

Hillary Jordan can pinpoint the moment she first felt the stirring of the book that would become "When She Woke. It was the 1990s. She was having dinner with an uncle in Maine when the conversation turned to drug offenders and the criminal justice system.

• Buffalo News
• October 24, 2011

• Dobbins v. Ohio Bur. of Motor Vehicles, (Ohio 1996)

Criminal procedure - Right to counsel - Audiotaping of telephone conversation between an arrestee and attorney violates R.C. 2935.20 - Motor vehicles - Driving while intoxicated * * * .

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Heart Balm Acts

... PROMISE, alienation of affection, criminal conversation, and seduction. Breach of Marriage Pr...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Fri–Jam

• $52,000 Grant Is Meant to Do That.

At the Cumberland County Jail, recording inmates' telephone conversations isn't the problem. It's sifting through the hundreds of hours of recordings to find a snippet of conversation that can make or break a criminal investigation.

• Portland Press Herald
• June 16, 2011

• Protect & Serve: ; St. Albans Police Chief Turning in His Badge; Second-Generation Police Officer Learned a Lot Over 23 Years

St. Albans Police Chief Joe Crawford learned much about how to command a police department from watching his father during his stint as chief of police in South Charleston. My father being chief gave me some insight, something that always stuck in the back of my mind, he said. I knew what to expect when I took the job. You have to wear a lot of hats. Roger Crawford worked as a police officer for 22 years in South Charleston before retiring as chief in 1982, the same year Joe graduated from South Charleston High. The father worked for another 12 years with the Yeager Airport Police but did not live to see his son become chief in 2006. Despite that, Crawford said his father gave him good advice on how to do the job before his death in 1998. The second-generation officer credits his dad wi...

• Charleston Daily Mail
• December 30, 2010

• Kawaauhau v. Geiger, 523 U.S. 57 (1998)

... that a damages award for the tort of "criminal conversation" survived bankruptcy under the 1898 B...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Gretzky Knew Wife Was Betting ; Superstar Caught On Probe Wiretaps

Hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky discussed a gambling investigation with the betting ring's suspected financier in a wiretapped recording, speculating that his wife would evade prosecution, a person with knowledge of the probe said Thursday. However, nothing in the conversation with Rick Tocchet, the alleged financier, suggests that Gretzky tried to obstruct the criminal probe, which allegedly uncovered numerous sports bets placed by his wife, Janet Jones, the person said.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• February 10, 2006

• State v. Beaureguard, (Ohio 2007)

CRIMINAL LAW - SEARCH AND SEIZURE - motion to suppress; fourth amendment; consensual encounter; no seizure; parked car; conversation; field sobriety tests; reasonable suspicion.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Impeachment Panel to Hear From Burris

SPRINGFIELD - Fresh from his failure to be seated Tuesday in the U.S. Senate, former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris will testify Thursday in Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment hearings. Burris, 71, is expected to outline the events that led up to his being appointed to the seat by the scandal-tainted chief executive, including a conversation with Blagojevich's criminal defense attorney about taking the job if it were offered.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• January 07, 2009