Cold civil rights cases may be reopened by the FBI. An AP story by Chris Talbott, explains that the Southern Poverty Law Center gave the FBI a list of 74 unsolved cases linked to racial discrimination. U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton believes however, the cases will remain cold because the statute of limitations federally would have expired, and some of the accused were already cleared in court.

Death penalty again for 41-year-old Robert Wayne Holsey, who shot to death 26-year-old Dep. Wayne Robinson IV. Tim Sturrock's story reports that Holsey was sentenced to death ten years ago, but last year, Georgia Superior Court Judge Neal Dickert "overturned the death sentence, citing ineffective defense counsel." The high court overturned that decision Monday.

Tape of a murder victim's ordeal with her attacker will be heard by a jury Tuesday in Ocean County, NJ. The tape is 46 minutes in length and was found on the victim, Kathleen Weinstein (44). She was held at gunpoint and forced into her car at a restaurant parking lot; she turned on a tape recorder in her pocket when taken. An AP story by Jeffrey Gold explained the tape included pleas from Weinstein and her even trying to help attacker, Michael LaSane (27) find a job. His guilty plea in 1997 was overturned in 2005, he then pleaded not guilty. The tape is copyrighted to the victim's husband and prosecution is trying to ban media access to the tape. LaSane could face "life plus 60 years in prison, with no parole consideration before 60 years."

Mistrial for the courthouse shooting involving Deputy Kimsey Gray, according to a Georgia AP story. Deputy Gray was screening the possible jury members for his case. In August, Gray was attacked with his gun by inmate Timothy Lamer Jones when transporting Jones and three other inmates, Mark Joseph McCarthy, Joshua Shane Marlow, and Bobby Dwayne Martin from court back to jail. Jones was killed and the other three "were charged with conspiring to escape."

More sex offender proposals, this time in Nevada. Governor Jim Gibbon's proposal consists of three parts. First, GPS trackers for offenders that will probably offend again, second, registration before prison release, and finally, "DNA samples from out of state offenders who move to Nevada." All according to KVBC/DT news.

Specific details about sex offenders on Florida police departments' website is the latest sex offender proposal by State Senator Nancy Argenziano as reported by Eddy Ramirez of St. Petersburgh Times. Argenziano wants the public to know details like if the offenders are "repeat offenders...[prey] on children....Romeo and Juliet cases...young adults sexually involved with a teen who could not legally give consent." This is in order for the public to know which offenders to really look out for.