News Plagued by gun crime, Prince George’s considers making offenders register
05-28-2012
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Washington Post
In Prince George’s Co. where hundreds of people were shot last year and 64 of them died — people convicted of gun crimes may soon be required to register, regularly check in with police and submit to home visits from officers.
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News Woman Admits That She Falsely Accused Convicted High School Student of Rape
05-26-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org
Brian Banks was a former high school football star when he was accused of rape by Wanetta Gibson.
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News DA Running for Congress Indicted; Feds: Ran His Office as a Criminal RICO Enterprise
05-25-2012
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A sitting district attorney in South Texas has been federally indicted, accused of working with his former law partner and others to operate the local justice system as a criminal racketeering enterprise.
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News 5 Ways Public Schools Prepare Us For Prison Life
05-25-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Rhonda Robinson
It didn’t occur to me that the six-foot fence around the perimeter was meant to keep me in. That is, until the day I decided to leave.
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News The Rape of Delaware County, Oklahoma
05-24-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
In Oklahoma’s Delaware County, Sheriff’s deputies were too busy figuratively raping motorists in the village of Bernice to supervise guards who were literally raping inmates in the county jail. As a result, the County Commission has put the screws to
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News Sanford judge rules in favor of motorist who flashed his headlights
05-24-2012
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orlandosentinel.com, By Rene Stutzman
judge in Sanford ruled Tuesday that a Lake Mary man was lawfully exercising his First Amendment rights when he flashed his headlights to warn neighbors that a deputy had set up a speed trap nearby.
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News Several George Zimmerman witnesses change their accounts
05-23-2012
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Orlando Sentinel
Evidence released last week in the second-degree-murder case against George Zimmerman shows four key witnesses made major changes in what they say they saw and heard the night he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford.
Three changed th
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News White supremacist gets 40 years in 2004 Scottsdale bombing
05-23-2012
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http://www.azcentral.com, by Ofelia Madrid
A federal court judge on Tuesday imposed a 40-year sentence on a White supremacist who was behind a 2004 bombing that seriously injured Scottsdale's diversity director.
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News Today in Innocence
05-22-2012
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The Agitator
There was no dispute in court Friday in Jefferson City that favorable evidence was improperly withheld from George Allen’s defense in a St. Louis murder trial almost three decades ago.
What stands between Allen, 56, and freedom is the question of
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News Today in Innocence, Part II
05-22-2012
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The Agitator
U.S. District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard is keeping a man in prison even though prosecutors have dropped the charges against him, even though the FBI says he should be released, and even though the only evidence against him was from a police officer
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News Mexican troops capture a top suspect in slayings of 49
05-22-2012
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http://edition.cnn.com, By Catherine E. Shoichet
One of the main suspects in the killings of 49 people in northern Mexico received orders from the top leaders of the Zetas cartel, a military official said Monday.
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News How America's Death Penalty Murders Innocents
05-22-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by David A. Love
The evidence is in: the US criminal justice system produces wrongful convictions on an industrial scale – with fatal results
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News Under Asset Forfeiture Law, Wisconsin Cops Steal Families' Bail Money
05-21-2012
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Huffington Post
When the Brown County, Wis., Drug Task Force arrested her son Joel last February, Beverly Greer started piecing together his bail.
She used part of her disability payment and her tax return. Joel Greer's wife also chipped in, as did his brother an
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News Tough on Crime, Tough on Justice
05-20-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Leonard Pitts Jr.
So the people got sick of it, all those criminals being coddled by all those bleeding heart liberal judges with all their soft-headed concern for rights and rehabilitation.
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News Trayvon Martin case 911 call: Two experts reach two much different conclusions
05-19-2012
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Washington Post
In the last 45 seconds, there is a faint voice, a distant yell, and the urgent dialogue between a woman and a 911 operator.
“There’s just someone screaming outside,” the caller begins on the recorded line.
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News 2 U.S. citizens, 2 ethnicities, 2 accounts of jail treatment
05-19-2012
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http://tucsoncitizen.com, by Daniel González
Jovana Renteria and Jessica Davenport are both Americans born in the United States.
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News Paul Rusconi, Malibu Artist, Cleared Of Allegations Of Raping His Twin Daughters (VIDEO)
05-18-2012
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Huffington Post
After being cleared Friday of allegations that he raped his 20-month-old twin daughters, famed Malibu photographer Paul Rusconi cried.
It's been almost a year since distant family members, the nanny who took care of Rusconi's two girls, and her hu
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News Witness Told Cops He Saw Trayvon Martin Straddling George Zimmerman And Punching Him "MMA Style
05-18-2012
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The Smoking Gun
The man rsaw “a black male, wearing a dark colored ‘hoodie’ on top of a Hispanic male who was yelling for help.” The black male, “was mounted on the Hispanic male and throwing punches ‘MMA (mixed martial arts) style.'”
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News Trayvon Martin autopsy indicates hand-to-hand struggle with George Zimmerman
05-17-2012
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Washington Post
Includes laboratory reports that show traces of blood in Martin’s fingernails, Zimmerman’s blood on Martin’s sweatshirt and Martin’s blood on Zimmerman’s red jacket. Martin’s autopsy report shows that he had a small abrasion on his left fourth finger
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News Young Turks host: Louisiana’s sheriffs get a cut of America’s ‘prison capital’
05-16-2012
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Rawstory
Young Turks host Ana Kasparian explained how Louisiana sheriffs had an incentive to keep the inmate population high. “Non-violent drug offenders end up in these prisons for very, very long sentences just because these sheriff’s departments profit fro
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News Guantanamo lawyers want ex-CIA official to testify
05-16-2012
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Reuters
Defense lawyers want to force a former CIA official who supervised what they called torture of al Qaeda captives to testify in the war crimes tribunal for five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks.
They argue that Jose
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News Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial
05-16-2012
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reuters.com, By Anthony Deutsch and Ivana Sekulara
Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic taunted Srebrenica survivors on Wednesday at the start of his trial for genocide, running his hand across his throat in a gesture of defiance to relatives of the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two.
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News Court records: Zimmerman had 2 black eyes, nose fracture after Trayvon Martin’s fatal shooting
05-15-2012
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AP
Court records show George Zimmerman had a pair of black eyes, a nose fracture and two cuts to the back of his head after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
The medical records were part of evidence released Tuesday that prosecutors
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News Prosecutors Have Video Evidence In Trayvon Martin Slaying
05-15-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Abby Rogers
A Florida prosecutor has listed new video evidence from the 7-11 where slain teen Trayvon Martin reportedly bought Skittles the night he died.
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News Key Murdoch Aide to Be Prosecuted in Hacking Case
05-15-2012
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nytimes.com, By JOHN F. BURNS and ALAN COWELL
Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper empire and a close friend of Prime Minister David Cameron, was formally charged on Tuesday, along with her husband and four others, of perverting the course of justice in the hacki
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News Mistaken Identity? 10 Contested Death Penalty Cases
05-15-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Stephanie Pappas
A death penalty case long surrounded by questions has been brought to the surface again, with a new report suggesting that the 1989 execution of Carlos DeLuna killed an innocent man. DeLuna's is not the first case to raise such red flags.
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News Judge overseeing the trial of John Edwards limits testimony of key defense witness
05-14-2012
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Washington Post
The judge overseeing the criminal trial of John Edwards will sharply curtail the testimony of a key witness for the defense who could raise doubt about whether the former presidential candidate broke campaign finance laws.
Edwards’ lawyers had int
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News Fight looms over detainee provisions
05-14-2012
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thehill.com, By Jeremy Herb and Carlo Munoz
The House will re-ignite a debate this week that last year sparked public outrage and a White House veto threat: Can terror suspects on U.S. soil be detained indefinitely?
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News Arizona prisoners rarely granted clemency
05-13-2012
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Arizona Republic
By his 14th birthday, Tommy Londo was addicted to crack cocaine. With both parents in prison, he grew up on the streets of Phoenix, homeless and uneducated. He spent his teens in and out of mental hospitals and shelters.
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News Disposable People
05-13-2012
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The Agitator
Had she been facing the death penalty, she would have had the right to introduce mitigating evidence, but no such right extended to defendants facing mandatory life sentences.
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Headlines: Disposable People -- Arizona prisoners rarely granted clemency -- Fight looms over detainee provisions -- Judge overseeing the trial of John Edwards limits testimony of key defense witness -- Mistaken Identity? 10 Contested Death Penalty Cases -- Key Murdoch Aide to Be Prosecuted in Hacking Case -- Prosecutors Have Video Evidence In Trayvon Martin Slaying -- Court records: Zimmerman had 2 black eyes, nose fracture after Trayvon Martin’s fatal shooting -- Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial
-- Guantanamo lawyers want ex-CIA official to testify -- Young Turks host: Louisiana’s sheriffs get a cut of America’s ‘prison capital’ -- Trayvon Martin autopsy indicates hand-to-hand struggle with George Zimmerman -- Witness Told Cops He Saw Trayvon Martin Straddling George Zimmerman And Punching Him "MMA Style -- Paul Rusconi, Malibu Artist, Cleared Of Allegations Of Raping His Twin Daughters (VIDEO) -- 2 U.S. citizens, 2 ethnicities, 2 accounts of jail treatment -- Trayvon Martin case 911 call: Two experts reach two much different conclusions -- Tough on Crime, Tough on Justice -- Under Asset Forfeiture Law, Wisconsin Cops Steal Families' Bail Money -- How America's Death Penalty Murders Innocents -- Mexican troops capture a top suspect in slayings of 49 -- Today in Innocence, Part II -- Today in Innocence -- White supremacist gets 40 years in 2004 Scottsdale bombing
-- Several George Zimmerman witnesses change their accounts -- Sanford judge rules in favor of motorist who flashed his headlights -- The Rape of Delaware County, Oklahoma -- 5 Ways Public Schools Prepare Us For Prison Life -- DA Running for Congress Indicted; Feds: Ran His Office as a Criminal RICO Enterprise -- Woman Admits That She Falsely Accused Convicted High School Student of Rape -- Plagued by gun crime, Prince George’s considers making offenders register --
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