No More Miranda Warnings?
by An appeal to the Supreme Court of an Oxnard, CA excessive force case in which a man who fought with police was shot by police …
Category: Justice
Jury Room Camera Debate
The battle described Monday over the use of cameras in the jury room of a Houston-area murder trial rages on. Reas the Houston Chronicle story. …
Cameras Don’t Belong in Jury Room
State District Judge Ted Poe is planning to allow cameras in the deliberation room of a capital murder trial. Read the story in the Houston …
Court to Veterans: No Promised Medical Care
A federal appeals court agreed with the Defense Department that veterans promised they would get free lifetime health care if they stayed in the service …
Prosecutor’s Change of Heart
Marc Shiner used to prosecute murderers; now he defends them. Read about what changed his life in the N.Y. Times. One imagines the difficulties in …
Crime, Definition and Punishment
Must juries adhere to the letter of the law? A referendum in South Dakota might mean the end of that standard Read the LA Times …
Cop Killer Gets Life
A convicted cop-killer got a life sentence today in Houston. Read the Houston Chronicle story. One should be glad to get a conviction and long …
Convicts Voting Rights
Should ex-cons be allowed to vote? On such Floridian thinks so. Read the Washington Post story. Those interested in law and order must necessarily shudder …
Teen Robber Sentenced
By Marc Moore at 9/24/2002 8:01:54 PM A Houston teenager was sentenced to 35 years in state prison for aggravated robbery of a woman this …
Judicial Injustice
In what should be an embarassment of the Democratic party, liberal Senators unanimously voted down Priscilla Owen’s nomination to the Federal Appeals Court today. Read …