This came as the high court Tuesday overturned a federal appeals court decision throwing out Randall Lee Fields’ conviction.

Fields was in prison on disorderly conduct charges when a jail guard and sheriff’s deputies from Lenawee County, Mich., started interrogating him about allegations that he had sexually assaulted a minor. Fields confessed and was convicted of criminal sexual assault.

Fields appealed the use of his confession, saying that he was never given his Miranda rights on the sexual assault charges.

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati threw out his confession and conviction, but the high court overturned that ruling.

It was a great afternoon kicked off with a fantastic buffet with a great assortment of food and desserts, red carpet treatment for all those who came with several photographers donating their time to take pictures of the celebrities with any of the guests.

A special thanks to Mo Fathipour the Tournament Director at the Bicycle Casino who supports this cause all year around and made this tournament possible. Without his great staff, knowledge of charity events, time and effort this event would not have been successful.

George Kozel also known as “The Poker Host”, did a fantastic job contacting all the celebrities and coordinating their efforts to attend as well as taking the microphone and getting all the players pumped up and keeping them entertained during the 10 hour event.

Marie Lizette Acoba who helped design our flyers and posters and continually did the social media advertising to get the word out about this event that made it such a success.

Also to all of you supporters who came out on a Sunday afternoon to play some charitable Poker, without you we would not be in exsistence and we thank you.

Phil Bowers the painter we commissioned to have the portrait of Officer Jeremy Henwood painted brought the finished painting to show all in attendance the remarkable job he did.

We would also like to thank the vendors who set up tables and stayed and played in the event, 3BetClothing.com AnteUp Magazine, Annas Jewelry and my good friend and fellow Deputy Marc Shultz who owns a Sports Memorbilia Company.

The Poker tournament although fun had alot of players taking this event seriously. The first 90 minutes only 6 people left and we reached the final table about 9:45.

The final table ended at 1:30 am with Deputy Phil Astengo battling the eventual Champion Bruce Cramer heads up for about an hour. In the end Bruce rivered a staright to win this years event and a long a fantastic event came to an end.

Please check our FaceBook page for all the pictures of the event as well under the photo tab here on our website.

Thank You all again and we will see you next year!

There will be several Hollywood Celebrities attending as well as some well know Poker Professionals who are eager to meet you, take some pictures and sign autographs for you.

A buffet style lunch is included with the buy in of $100 ($20 re-buys available first 90 minutes) however if you get a group of 10 together the entry fee is reduced to $60 per person and lunch is still included.

We will be giving away some entries to upcoming LA Poker Tournaments a silent auction of sports memorbilia will be going on during the event as well as 3bet clothing company showing off its new apparel line.

Bring your Camera to take a few pictures and have a great afternoon of fun with the Stars,pros and some of your local Law Enforcemnet officers.

We will be displaying the finished portrait of San Diego Police Officer Jeremy Henwood at todays event so come join us at 1;30pm.

Sgt. Michael T. May, 41, was pronounced dead at Ruby Memorial Hospital from injuries sustained in the crash. State police took Jerod A. Green, 35, of Morgantown, into custody on charges including homicide by vehicle while driving drunk; state police said he was still being questioned at 10:15 a.m. and had not been formally charged or arraigned.

Pennsylvania state police said state police in West Virginia were investigating a hit-and-run accident around 12:50 a.m. near Morgantown, and believe Green’s truck struck another vehicle.

Nearly 20 minutes later, Granville, W.Va., police said they spotted Green driving on Route 100, and pulled him over; Monongalia deputies assisted.

Green appeared drunk, according to police; he refused to get out of his vehicle, and instead drove away, with police and deputies pursuing.

Green drove into Greene County on Route 19, and then onto southbound Interstate 79, where he hit May’s parked cruiser.

May was a 10-year veteran of the Monongalia sheriff’s department, and is survived by his parents and a brother, police said. Monongalia County Sheriff Al Kisner was not immediately available for comment this morning.

As a moment of silence is held in memory of Clay County Detective David White, a second deputy shot Thursday night during a raid of a meth lab is upgraded to stable condition.

All activity at the Clay County Sheriff’s Office will pause at 9 a.m. and patrol officers will observe a radio silence in memory White, whose body was escorted by an honor guard as it was transferred overnight to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Jacksonville.

Authorities say White and his partner, Detective Matt Hanlin, were among nine deputies investigating a suspected meth lab on Alligator Boulevard in Middleburg just after 6 p.m. Thursday

Deputies say when the the door was slammed in their face, White and Hanlin force their way inside and were met by gunfire.  White was shot in the head and Hanlin in the left arm.  The suspected gunman, whose name has not been released, was shot and killed by other deputies as he ran out the back of the house.

Five other men inside the house were taken into custody, but no information was available about what charges they may face.

Investigators say some or all of them were living in the house without the knowledge or permission of the owner.

Friday morning, investigators with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Clay County Sheriff’s Office remain at the home removing chemicals and equipment.

Through the night, family, friends and fellow officers remained outside the Orange Park Medical Center as Hanlin underwent surgery on his arm.

White, a 35-year-old Army veteran, is the first Clay County deputy shot on duty in nearly 40 years and the first killed in the line of duty since 1913.  He leaves behind a wife and two children.

The Sheriff’s Office said funeral arrangements were still being made.

“Detective White … was literally one of the best officers we had. He will be sorely missed,” Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said Thursday night.

Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the shooting that left one person dead and another seriously injured and whether it was related to  some kind of personal dispute or a professional confrontation, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing.

The sources said the gunman had a lower rank than the two other supervisors.

One Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the Glenn M. Anderson Federal Building near the oceanfront died at the scene Thursday night and the other was in stable condition.

One agent fired repeatedly at the other shortly before 6 p.m. With one supervisor wounded, a third  intervened and opened fire on the gunman, who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to law enforcement authorities.

The male agent who killed the gunman was uninjured.

The Superior Court jury found the 20-year-old Crockam guilty of murder and weapons offenses in the Jan. 14, 2011, shooting of Patrolman Christopher Matlosz. The jury also determined there were aggravating factors in the case that should trigger an automatic life sentence without parole when Crockam is sentenced on March 22.

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“He was killed for no other reason than that he had a badge and a uniform,” Ocean County Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford said. “It’s ironic that this defendant, whose contempt of this court initially started this process, was afforded a fair trial. His rights were protected, and he was protected at every step by a system he held in contempt.”

She was referring to outstanding arrest warrants that authorities had issued for Crockam involving weapons charges. Prosecutors said Crockam, who also is awaiting trial for another, unrelated murder that took place a few months before the officer was killed, thought he was about to be arrested on those warrants for weapons offenses, and killed the officer to avoid going to jail.

The verdict came on the second day of deliberations in the highly publicized case, attended daily by many of the slain officer’s relatives, as well as police officers from numerous agencies.

Matlosz’ fiancee, Kelly Walsifer, collapsed in sobs inside the courtroom when the verdict was read.

“Chris was present in the room,” she said. “He was with us, with all of us. He can rest in peace now.

“I have a lot of emotions right now,” said Walsifer, clutching a set of pink rosary beads. “I want to be overwhelmed with joy, but it’s very bittersweet. It doesn’t bring Chris back.”

Crockam showed no emotion as the verdicts were read, although a few of Matlosz’ relatives and friends exclaimed, “Yes!”

Immediately afterward, Crockam stood up from the chair he had occupied throughout the three-week trial, two sheriff’s officers grabbed his hands and placed them behind his back, handcuffed him and led him out of the courtroom.

His defense lawyer, Mark Fury, had maintained that police arrested the wrong man. He elected not to present a defense of Crockam, contending that there was no reliable evidence or witness identification of Crockam as the shooter.

“I believe that everyone has the right to a fair trial, even poor kids from bad neighborhoods on heinous charges,” he said. “There was a ton of evidence to start with. We took it down as best we could.”

The murder weapon was never recovered; one of Crockam’s acquaintances testified it was thrown into the Delaware River.

Prosecutors presented evidence including witness testimony from two residents of the snow-covered street where the killing took place who identified Crockam as the man they saw blast the officer three times with a gun.

Matlosz had just driven up alongside a man near an apartment complex in Lakewood and called for him to come over to the patrol car. The two neighbors testified the man they identified as Crockam walked up to the car, pulled a gun out of his pocket and shot the officer three times.

A massive manhunt involving more than 100 officers from numerous law enforcement agencies arrested Crockam two days later. He was hiding in the apartment of a friend in Camden.

Several acquaintances of Crockam, including people who drove him to Camden after the shooting, testified that Crockam admitted killing the officer. Several inmates who were at the Ocean County Jail at the same time Crockam was arrested also were called to testify that Crockam boasted to them that he had killed the police officer.

The mother of one of Crockam’s friends testified that Crockam told her a month before Matlosz was shot that he would kill a police officer rather than go to prison.

Tanya Cook Peteete testified that Crockam left court without making a scheduled appearance in December 2010, and that she urged him to return before authorities issued an arrest warrant for him.

“He said he wasn’t going back to the court,” Cook Peteete testified. “He just said he’s not going back to jail. If he’s going to jail, it’s going to be for killing a cop.”

Crockam is awaiting trial for a second murder, that of a man whose body was found dumped on a street corner on Oct. 15, 2011. That case will either come to trial in September, or in January 2013, prosecutors said.

Crockam and another man were charged with that murder on the day of Matlosz’s funeral. Many of the hundreds of law enforcement and governmental officials gathered inside a church in Lakewood got an email on their Blackberrys and cellphones during the funeral, announcing that Crockam was charged with a second murder.

Information leading to the new murder charge was developed as police investigated Matlosz’s slaying.

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Jurors heard opening statements in the trial of Cyril Cornelius Williams, who is charged with first-degree murder in the June 2010 death of Wesley Brown, a Maryland State Trooper who did part-time security at an Applebee’s restaurant in Forestville.

Prosecutor Tara Harrison said an agitated and vengeful Williams shot Brown after he and another officer asked him to leave the bar. But defense lawyer William Brennan said there was no DNA, fingerprint evidence or definitive physical identification linking his client to the killing.

“Getting thrown out of an Applebee’s does not equate with first-degree murder,” Brennan said. “The evidence is lacking.”

After being kicked out of the bar, Harrison said, Williams swung at another officer working security. The officer began to chase after Williams, but Brown urged him to let it go.

She said Williams then called a friend, Anthony Milton, and arranged to pick up a gun.

“Remember that gun I lent you?” Harrison quoted Williams as saying. “Remember that .45? I need that.”

Harrison said Williams picked up the gun from Milton’s home and immediately returned to the restaurant. He parked in an apartment complex across the street from the Applebee’s, approached the restaurant and fired multiple shots at Brown, 24, who had stepped outside to make a phone call, the prosecutor said.

“Cyril Williams, the defendant, emptied his .45, firing at the door of Applebee’s,” she said.

Harrison said shell casings and ballistics are consistent with the weapon Williams used.

Milton has since pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact for his role in hiding the gun in his backyard. Brennan told jurors that Milton had lied to authorities when he was first questioned and that the prosecution case was based on the testimony of jailhouse snitches and criminals with questionable credibility.

“Are they trying to make deals?” Brennan asked of the witnesses. “Buy their freedom?”

The trial in Prince George’s County Circuit Court is expected to last about a week

Gunfire was the leading cause of death with seven deaths. Two of those were in Puerto Rico where one officer was shot in the face during a traffic stop and another was murdered when he responded to a panic alarm.

A U.S. Park Service officer was killed when she tried to stop a vehicle that had failed to stop for a checkpoint. An Ogden (Utah) officer was killed and five other officers were wounded by a subject during the service of a narcotics warrant.

A deputy sheriff in Arizona was killed when he responded to a burglary alarm and was shot by a suspect with a rifle. He was struck below his body armor. A correctional officer who was off-duty, but in uniform, was killed during a robbery. An officer in Aiken (S.C.) died of her wounds after being shot while checking a suspicious vehicle.

Vehicle related incidents claimed five lives. A Connecticut officer died of injuries received in a 2003 crash. A Louisiana deputy died in a car crash when he collided head-on with another vehicle. A Honolulu officer died when he stopped to help a disabled vehicle and his vehicle was struck from behind and caught fire.  A Kentucky deputy sheriff died in a collision while on the way to serve civil papers. An Atlanta patrol officer died when she was struck by a drunk driver as she stepped from her vehicle.

An Arkansas correctional officer was stabbed to death as she tried to confiscate contraband.  A Nevada correctional officer suffered a heart attack after sustaining an ankle injury during a struggle. It is believed an embolism from the injury caused the heart attack.

A Montgomery County (Md.) officer contracted Hepatitis C after being given a blood transfusion during treatment for injuries sustained when he was pinned between two cars in a collision caused by a drunk driver.

It must be said again and again that cops do not have to die in the numbers that we continue to see. Some of these deaths were absolutely preventable and that just makes the loss all the more tragic.

We must be willing to objectively and constructively examine each loss and determine how we can prevent future deaths. We cannot afford to simply move on and accept these losses as a cost of doing business. Each and every one of these officers will be forever mourned by their affected families and departments.

It is time to hold each other accountable and speak up when we see others taking unnecessary chances or failing to use safety equipment like seat belts and body armor. We can drive down this horrible number that causes more names to be added to the National Memorial every year. We can make a difference. You can be part of that effort