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By H. Skip Robinson © 12/11/2009   The Constitution guarantees a fair trial through the Due Process Clauses, but creating a system that actually works has for the most part eluded our planet. All one must do is goggle “injustice” and you will

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Judge,Jury and self appointed "Executioner of the law" Sheriff Joe has finally sunk himself in his own self serving quicksand.. don't throw him a rope this time, only some barbwire from "tent city" to save him or his gestapo style comrades from thems

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Heat City

Judge Gary Donahoe has ordered the detention officer to hold a news conference to apologize for taking the document. If he refuses to do so by today's deadline, Donahoe said he would throw the officer in jail for contempt of court.

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Photography Is Not a Crime

David Hackbart flipped a cop off and ended up cited for, you guessed it, disorderly conduct. He didn’t even get arrested and the charge was eventually dropped. But that didn’t stop him from filing a lawsuit against the City of Pittsburgh for violatin

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Slate

Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments, in Sullivan v. Florida, about whether sentencing a 13-year-old boy to prison without the possibility of parole violates the cruel-and–unusual-punishment clause of the Constitution. Joe Harris Sullivan

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Radley Balko @ Reason.com

The amazing video below was taken on October 19 in Arizona's Maricopa County Superior Court. As defense attorney Joanne Cuccia discusses her client's sentencing hearing with the judge, Maricopa County Sheriff's Department detention officer Adam S

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Christian Science Monitor

Do Americans who have been framed by unscrupulous prosecutors for crimes they did not commit have a right to sue the prosecutors when the fraud is finally exposed? According to the Obama administration, the answer is no.

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