A North Carolina judge has ruled that four sex convicted sex offenders could not be subjected to lifetime monitoring—their ankle bracelets and waist transmitters have been removed. The constitutional issues of lifetime monitoring are unresolved. (Charlotte Observor)
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Toni Locy, a former reporter for USA Today, has told a federal court that she will not reveal her confidential sources for a story on the 2001 anthrax attacks. The trial judge ordered Locy to pay daily sanctions of up to $5,000 out of her own pocket, despite the fact that she is still appealing [...]
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FIRST-PERSON….I had to go to jail because in 1998 I got a DWI, and then last April I got pulled over after a couple of beers. When you have a prior these days, they’re much more harsh about drinking and driving. The penalty could have been one year in jail if I had gone to [...]
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Five death-row inmates in Missouri have asked the state to provide more information on the criminal backgrounds of individual executioners after learning that one was on probation for stalking. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
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IN THE NEWS….Jose Padilla trained with al-Qaeda and was convicted of conspiring to commit murder. His headline case drew national attention to the controversial treatment by the Bush administration of military prisoners and “enemy combatants.” Padilla’s single mother, Estela Ortega-Lebron, spoke last year about the toll taken by the three years her son was held [...]
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IN THE NEWS….Kenneth Cashwell and William Ellsworth “Max” Grumiaux got just three years’ probation and $1,000 for various and unclear actions with stolen Blackwater weapons. Both Cashwell and Grumiaux submitted plea bargains and are cooperating in ongoing Blackwater investigations, although only the judge heard more of those stories….( New Bern Sun Journal, [...]
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IN THE NEWS….Dwayne Allen Dail spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. New DNA evidence set him free, and now he faces a civil lawsuit from his son’s mother for years of back child support.
Dail is entitled to $360,000 in compensation from the state for the wrongful imprisonment. Who should [...]
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IN THE NEWS….Hear from more than 137 prisoners exonerated by DNA evidence and released into private life. Compelling coverage at the New York Times…..
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FIRST-PERSON….I was visiting a friend about 2:00 in the morning. I parked my car and three men approached me. They said something I didn’t understand. I thought they were asking me to buy drugs. Then they said something louder to me, we want your wallet. I turned around and they were right behind me, [...]
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FIRST-PERSON….Several years ago I attended a gathering to oppose the penalty of death. The speaker was a man in his late thirties. In his youth he worked, lived his life. Then he was arrested for a heinous crime. The “evidence” was a physical characteristic. He was convicted and [...]
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