Law Office of Paul V. Carty

02/23/2026

For those who need to know.

11/18/2025

In the brutal summer of 1872, eleven men died in their beds across Louisiana. Not from yellow fever, not from war — but from revenge. They were leaders of the most feared Klan chapter in the South… and every single one met the same end. Local officials blamed “unrelated incidents,” but whispers spread in the freedmen’s quarters about a woman they called Jezebel — “The Black Widow.”

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11/05/2025

Be careful, people.

Arrests are up since President Donald Trump took office, as are deportations, government data shows.

10/18/2025

On October 25, 1967, in Arcadia, Florida, James Joseph Richardson, a 31-year-old Black migrant worker, and his wife, Annie Mae, returned home from their jobs at a citrus packing plant to find their seven children—Betty, 8; Alice, 7; Susie, 6; Doreen, 5; Vanessa, 4; Diane, 3; and James Jr., 2—dead from parathion poisoning. The children, left in the care of neighbor Bessie Reece, had eaten a lunch of grits, beans, rice, and hog jowls laced with the pesticide, later traced to a local hardware store. Autopsies confirmed the children died from organ failure after ingesting or absorbing the odorless toxin. Reece, a convicted poisoner from 1951, called James at noon, reporting the children’s distress, but all were dead by the time help arrived.

Sheriff Frank Cline targeted Richardson, arresting him hours later. After a 72-hour interrogation involving beatings and deprivation, Richardson, illiterate and without counsel, was coerced into a false confession tied to a nonexistent insurance policy. At his 1967 trial in Fort Myers, prosecutor Melvin Horne used perjured testimony from jailhouse informants and suppressed Reece’s criminal history. An all-white jury convicted Richardson of first-degree murder, sentencing him to death. A 1972 Supreme Court ruling commuted his sentence to life.

Civil rights lawyer Mark Lane’s 1970 book *Arcadia* exposed Reece’s confessions and prosecutorial misconduct. In 1988, Governor Bob Martinez appointed Janet Reno to review the case. Her report detailed suppressed evidence and racial bias, leading to Richardson’s conviction being vacated on April 25, 1989. Charges were dropped on May 5. Reece, who died in 1993, was never charged due to her dementia. Richardson, exonerated after 21 years, received $1.25 million in 2014. He died in 2023, leaving a legacy of resilience and advocacy for wrongful conviction reforms, with the tragedy highlighting systemic injustice in rural Florida.

02/16/2025

01/25/2025

08/17/2024

This ought to save some lives of shooting victims as well as the lives of shooters in the form of sentences for non-fatal shootings as opposed to murders.

Made by Cresilon, Traumagel can stop bleeding from gunshot wounds and is being looked at for future uses by the Department of Defense.

06/10/2024

Don’t do stupid stuff. And please, get out of your own way.

Free 1 bedroom apartment. Meals included. Just keep doing stupid stuff out here on the streets.

03/10/2024

Not exactly confidence inducing…..

A now-former forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) manipulated DNA test results in hundreds of criminal cases, an internal affairs investigation found, which prompted a full review of her work during her nearly 30-year career at the agency.

02/29/2024

Don’t let this happen to you. Pay attention when you receive documents from the court, especially those which put your home at risk. And hire a lawyer to protect your interests.

Dan Haar: A CT teacher paid the mortgage on her $300K house. She was evicted over a $9K debt

The case of Pansy Wright, a Bridgeport grandmother evicted from her Woodmont Avenue home despite an up-to-date mortgage, is exceedingly rare, lawyers say.