Legal Law

The life of Dorotea Puente

Los Angeles Times headline March 28, 2011 Dorothea Puente, 82, died at the Central California Women’s Facility where she was serving a life sentence without parole. She was sentenced for three first-degree murder convictions for two life sentences. She was a Sacramento rooming house operator who was convicted of killing her tenants in the 1990s. […]

Legal Law

A brief history of wine

It is now generally accepted that wine was discovered by accident somewhere in the Fertile Crescent, the bountiful agricultural expanse of river valleys that stretches from the Nile to the Persian Gulf. Although archaeologists have traced the origins of wine grapes back tens of thousands of years, the first evidence that wine was actually made […]