hooping n.— «While prison officials wouldn’t confirm, sources say the purported leader of the Galloway Boys, Tyshan Riley, who is facing multiple murder charges, was recently forced into segregation after officials found a six-inch knife...
throw under the bus v. phr.— «Dees said he talked to Hood after he bonded out of the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center on Sept. 26, 1990, and warned him “that he was being thrown under the bus by Jennifer Reali.” But he...
lead snowstorm n.— «While conducting the internal autopsy, Comfort testified she found fragments of the rifle bullet throughout the body, which forensic pathologists commonly refer to as a “lead snowstorm.”» —“Forensic pathologist...
elective cinema n.— «Ross’s friend Walter Salles, who directed “The Motorcycle Diaries,” and who first suggested the Brazil trip to him, coined the term “elective cinema”: in the cyclorama you’d have to choose which section of the screen...
quail car n.— «Barr told authorities that he loaned the “quail car,” a street term for a car traded for cocaine rock, to Latavion Cooley, who informed Barr upon returning it that he had “shot up,” according to...
public service murder n.— «The former dean of the Brooklyn Law School sounded like an overworked detective who speaks of “public service murders” bad guys killing bad guys.» —“Bad Judgment On Mafia Big” by Mark...