We've all heard the mantra "Elections Have Consequences" a lot this year. Maybe too much. But it's relied upon because it's true. Elections do have consequences. That's few places clearer -- or as positive a statement -- as in New York.When Eliot Spitzer won the...
criminal justice
Another big day at the Supreme Court today. In addition to striking down a school racial integration plan (maybe Scott will say more on this. I'm disgusted but not surprised),.
Sometimes I think the term "common sense" is an oxymoron. Or a paradox, at the very least. Because the things that make the most sense are often in opposition to.
I saw "Inherit the Wind" last night. There's a scene during the trial in which the judge bans virtually all of the defense's witnesses on the grounds that they -- scientists and experts on evolution -- are irrelevant.I couldn't help but think of that scene...
Genarlow Wilson, a promising high school sports star who was also a whiz in the classroom, was sentenced to ten years for having consensual oral sex with a fifteen year.
From an email from the Correctional Association's Women in Prison Project to the Coalition for Women Prisoners:In case you have not yet heard, for the first time in almost 30.
From Jamie Spencer, Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer:"Judges Can't Sentence "Drugs" to Prison. Instead, they sentence people to prison. So let’s just be honest about it, and start calling it the 'War on Drug Users', OK?"How right he is. Punishing drug addiction is unconstitutional since addiction...
There's been a lot of press recently about wrongly convicted men who have been exonerated by DNA evidence. No doubt, the work of the Innocence Project and other organizations that.
For the second time in recent months, a young woman is being charged with the crime of self-induced abortion, or attempt thereof.Via Shakesville, here's the most recent story: West Monroe.