Two Georgia Men Deter Armed Robbers Between Bites The debate in Georgia has raged about the right to carry concealed weapons in public. While some think that wearing guns openly results in the loss of surprise during an attack, other believe that openly carrying handguns thwarts a criminal assault. For two Georgia men, Matt Brannan […]
READ MOREThe Case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan
Salim Ahmed Hamdan’s Trip Through Hell Courtesy of the American Governmen With a wife and two daughters, Salim had to earn a living. Life in Yemen was hard. A compatriot told him about work opportunities in Afghanistan. Salim didn’t know that morning as he kissed his family goodbye that he wouldn’t see them again for […]
READ MOREScalia’s Death Row Lunacy
America killed a demonstrably innocent man and other than for a few small groups in Georgia, no one noticed. In August 1989, Mark MacPhail, an off-duty cop in Savannah, Georgia was working part-time as a security guard when he was shot and killed in a parking lot as he helped a homeless man being beaten […]
READ MOREThe Georgia Attorney General Crosses the Line of Decency – Schedules Execution before the US Supreme Court Can Hear the Case
ATLANTA (AP) — A death row inmate who has drawn international headlines with claims that he is innocent of killing a Savannah police officer is scheduled to be executed later this month, Georgia authorities said Wednesday. Troy Davis, who is on death row for gunning down a Savannah police officer in 1989, is scheduled to […]
READ MOREIncarceration Nation
The New York Times has news of an American milestone: For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars. It’s one thing to be tough on crime, and another to give the thumbs-up to a justice system that often treats black and Hispanic offenders much worse […]
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DNA Clears Convicted AB 20160509 XXX False Confessions Still Send Innocent People to Prison When Byron Halsey stepped into the sunshine in May 2007, he had served over twenty years in prison for atrocities he admitted to – but didn’t commit. Prosecutors were quick to admit their office’s failings and said they would not retry […]
READ MOREGo indirectly to jail
Mike from Satan’s Laundromat gets arrested On August 27, 2004, approximately 5,000 bicyclists met in Union Square Park for the kick off of that month’s “Critical Mass” ride through the streets of Manhattan. Police arrested over 250 people who were held in lock-up for 24-hours — some longer. New York’s then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t want […]
READ MOREANOKA COUNTY: Man shoots car, loses permit
Anyone looking out their window on July 5, 2003, in Anoka County Minnesota may have been convinced they were watching a re-enactment of a Grade B movie where the protagonist blows away his car with a shotgun. Damian Petersen, 34 plead guilty that August. The July afternoon had seen him but 11 bullets into the […]
READ MOREDoctor’s diagnosis was nearly fatal
Kerry Max Cook at Northwestern University School of Law in December 2002. Kerry Max Cook was twice convicted and twice sentenced to death for the 1977 murder and mutilation of a 21-year-old secretary in Tyler, Texas. The first conviction, in 1978, rested primarily on the testimony of a jailhouse snitch who claimed that Cook had […]
READ MORECircumcision Case to Proceed to Trial
Circumcision Creeps into Court In 2001, in North Dakota, District Judge Cynthia Rothe-Seeger turned away a motion for summary judgment by defendants in a circumcision case. The court decided the disagreement could go to trial in 2003. The decision to be made? Can a male infant, upon reaching the age of majority, sue his doctor […]
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