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According to several legal experts, a 19-year-old in New York City may be the first person to have successfully used Facebook to provide an alibi. When Rodney Bradford was charged with mugging two males at gunpoint in Brooklyn on a Saturday in October, it didn't help that he was already facing a previous robbery indictment. And although Bradford's father and stepmother backed up his claim that at the time of the alleged mugging, he was in Harlem at his father's apartment, witnesses identified him in a lineup, says his lawyer Robert Reuland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Facebook Defense: Social Networking as Alibi | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

...Zelaya overreached in June when he defied a Supreme Court order not to hold a referendum asking if a constitutional-reform assembly should be held. But instead of trying him legally for that crime, Zelaya's foes committed their own - flying him off to exile at gunpoint. (They rationalized the move by insisting Zelaya was plotting to lift Honduras' own ban on presidential re-election, though his referendum never broached the issue.) The Obama Administration joined the world in condemning the putsch; and it thought it had the crisis resolved last month when it got Zelaya and interim President Roberto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Central America, Coups Still Trump Change | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...male faculty member reported that he was robbed at gunpoint by an unknown man while walking north of Harvard Divinity School...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female University Employee Attacked by Unidentified Man Near Dewolfe St., Escapes Uninjured | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Soldiers arrest Zelaya during a predawn raid and force him out of the country at gunpoint. He is flown to Costa Rica, still wearing his pajamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...male faculty member reported that he was robbed at gunpoint by an unknown man while walking north of the Divinity School at 10:15 p.m. on Saturday, according to a community advisory e-mailed by The Harvard University Police Department on Sunday evening...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Member Robbed at Gunpoint | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

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