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Dirt Justice Anyone?

November 2, 2009

Her 15-year-old daughter, Hillary, had been charged with harassment for creating a fake MySpace page that mocked an assistant principal at her school.
“When Hillary was getting ready to go to court, other kids were teasing her, ‘You’re going to get sent away to Camp Adams,’ ” Transue said. “I said, ‘Don’t be ridiculous.’ That is [...]

Freedom In America Enforcement by police

October 2, 2009

Police Buy Military-Style Sonic Devices

With the help of Homeland Security grants, police departments nationwide looking to subdue unruly crowds and political protesters are purchasing a high-tech device originally used by the military to repelbattlefield insurgents and Somali pirates with piercing noise capable of damaging hearing.
Police acknowledge that they deployed the so-called Long Range Acoustic Devices [...]

Sentencing Extremes

September 25, 2009

Sentencing extremes
Below are some instances of excessive sentencing from news stories around the country. We all are aware of some of these extremes such as the California man who received 20 years for shoplifting a candy bar, and there are many more. We hope to update this page with more stories soon.
Excessive sentencing harms all [...]

Misconduct by the Prosecution

September 17, 2009

Posecutors Be Held Liable For Wrongful Convictions?

In November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on Pottawattamie v. McGhee in order to resolve it. The facts of the case aren’t in dispute. In 1978, a retired Iowa police captain was killed by a shotgun blast while working as a private security guard. Prosecutors Joseph Hrvol and [...]