Criminal Trials For Terrorists. A Danger To Our Justice System.

----A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that law professors and attorneys who represent Guantanamo Bay detainees cannot force the government to reveal whether an anti-terrorism program eavesdropped on their conversations.----

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No one disputes that an on-duty Irvine police officer got an erection and ejaculated on a motorist during an early-morning traffic stop in Laguna Beach. The female driver reported it, DNA testing confirmed it and officer David Alex Park finally admitted it.

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The Tragedy of Innocence

How can it be tragic to be innocent? Perhaps when someone has been wrongly convicted of a crime and spends many years in prison, sometimes on death row, only to be freed when it's found that he didn't commit the crime.

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James Bain was convicted of kidnapping and rape of a 9 year-old boy in a field back in 1973. The DNA testing of crime scene evidence used to free him had not yet been developed.

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It is impossible to credibly repair this nation's justice system while it operates a shameful symbol of illegality and inhumanity.

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The violence in TJ has only been increasing due to the Drug War. Illicit drug cartels have much power all over the world, but the ones who are fighting for them are low level members who are willing to die.

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An 18 year old young man was arrested on a felony charge for pointing a laser at a sheriff helicopter. The helicopter at the time was searching for a possible burglary suspect.

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A consensus is emerging among juvenile justice policymakers, including prosecutors, that New York must limit the number of young people sent to expensive prison-like residential facilities.

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A Tennessee police captain has been suspended for using the N-word due to an internal investigation.

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Reward offered for man wanted in rape, prostitution of minors By Lynne Terry, The Oregonian December 15, 2009, 9:15AM Portland police are looking for a 33-year-old man who is wanted on warrants linked to forcing prostitution, sodomy, rape and sex abuse.

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The LAPD was recently auditted, and can not account for $2.6 million dollars in examined transactions. Furthermore, there are other policies that the LAPD ignored.

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Friday, December 11th, 2009 8:40 am

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NAUGATUCK, Conn.—A Naugatuck borough police officer has been arrested on allegations he extorted more than $50,000 from a woman for the past six years.

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It has been called "After the War on Drugs." "After the War on Drugs" is a comprehensive plan to solve the issues the Drug War cannot solve and has not. The plan is an alternative to interdiction.

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An officer has died as a result of driving under the influence of alcohol.

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Although the officer was arrested, he is now suspect of "corruption of a minor." However, the suspected officer did not commit the crime while on duty. The following is what the news source is reporting:

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As a general matter, I think there are far too few uses of executive clemency, commutation and pardon in our current criminal justice system. But here's a case of one gone awry that may end up having real political ramifications.

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Two articles: "Red Notice" for Roman Polanski issued by INTERPOL

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In deciding to use federal court, the attorney general probably considered the record of the military commission system that was established in November 2001. This system secured three convictions in eight years.

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It goes without saying that when the available facts accrue and weigh so heavily against a defendant, like the alleged Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, one can begin to think of the upcoming trial as something of an afterthought.

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If you wish to justify a policy that will plainly increase the harms associated with each individual act of drug use, by creating violent criminal gangs as distributors, driving the sale of contaminated black market drugs, blighting the careers of users caught by the police, crim …

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[Manila, Philippines] In respect of the 1997 rape-slaying of two sisters which saw the conviction of Francisco Larrañaga and six others, you raise the point that Larrañaga's transfer of confinement to some penitentiary in Spain was not a miscarriage of justice because it was …

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Sen. Charles Grassley, author of the censorship amendment to the National Criminal Justice Commission Act, was asked about his anti-speech tendencies by a reporter on a conference call today. The full transcript is below, but here's the most interesting part of what Sen.

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Here we go again. How many stories like this are we going to get? Stories of senseless tennis violence. And what do you get when this happens?

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Sen. Jim Webb (D-Virginia) has bravely proposed legislation to create a Blue Ribbon commission to conduct an 18-month, "top-to-bottom" review of America's criminal justice system with the goal of bringing U.S.

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