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Crime and Punishment: Credit For Time Served
Paco Villa's Corrections blog | August 18th 2008 by Paco Villa
Note: This article examines the notion of the California judicial practice of rewarding offenders with "Credit for time served." This perspective applies primarily to the impact on the street, recognizing a similar system exists with in the CDCR.Cred read more
Another Misguided Parole Absconder Shoots at Police
Paco Villa's Corrections blog | August 7th 2008 by Paco Villa
Click title to access article at DailyBulletin.comHere is another example of how dangerous life can be serving the public good in Southern California. We are all in this together on both sides of the door. read more
History of Legal Punishments
God's Imperfect Princess says... | August 3rd 2008 by Crystal Kauffman
Many nations and cultures have made official laws to protect theircitizens from crime. Over the years, these laws have been in force, inorder to keep their society from becoming anarchy. Different forms ofpunishments have been used to deter would-be read more
governor to cut funds to fight wrongful convictions
the mike bertelsen project | July 29th 2008 by mike bertelsen
Governor Rod Blagojevich is not on the good side of prosecutors and defense attorneys because he has decided to veto millions of dollars to fight wrongful convictions and help with death penalty reforms. One veto blocked funds for videotaping interro read more
Protecting our rights vs. letting a criminal walk
Easier Said Than Done | July 18th 2008 by Nichole
As I was reading the news today, I found an article titled, “Should Criminals Go Free When Police Blunder?“ Before reading the article, I stopped to think about the question being asked. For most of my life, I have always been very pros read more
So Much to Talk About!
The Inconvenient Truth | July 3rd 2008 by Leigh
Oh man, I have so much to talk about tonight! Seems like almost everything I’ve been reading in the news lately has just pissed me off. I won’t go into great detail about each one — I’ll just give you enough to push your pis read more
Hammarberg’s report on corruption in the justice system
The 8th Circle | June 29th 2008 by The 8th Circle
Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe, released a view point on the state of corruption in member states, such as Albania, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and others. His perspective, contained in a short article titled - Cor read more
Falling Conviction Rates in Japan
Abduction Politics: North Korea, Japan and the Politics of F… | June 3rd 2008 by Shingen
The Supreme Court said Monday that 2.9 percent of defendants who pleaded not guilty to criminal charges were found innocent at their initial trials in 2007, marking the highest level in a decade. - ‘Innocent rate’ rises to highest in deca read more
I have read the judgement but my views aren’t changed
Jack Yan on Vox | May 28th 2008 by Jack Yan
Finally, I have read the judgement from California about gay marriage. It may be prudent to post a comment from an earlier post, in response to a commenter, Madonna. I should note that I am not part of a conspiracy behind an ‘anti-gay industry’ o read more
A follow-up on the gay marriage post
Jack Yan on Vox | May 28th 2008 by Jack Yan
The following is a comment in response to the exchange from my earlier blog post on gay marriage in California. I believe it is important (for my own ego!) to address charges that I am prejudiced against gays or am a bigot. It is a pity that whil... read more
Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’
Let's get things into perspective here! | April 24th 2008 by Allan W Janssen
Guest Post By ADAM LIPTAK, New York Times (Note; This article is scary enough that I am reproducing it in it's entirety here -ED.) The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s... NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THE OVERLY RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL OR read more
Keep Up With American Politics With Teknosis
Welcome To BestJoanne.Info | April 22nd 2008 by joanne collins
While surfing and looking around reading, I came across this blog with an interest in American politics.For people with inquiring minds want to know. There are lots of ideas that Teknosis talks about.Especially about justice and the court system, US read more
So What’s Your Point?
RANDOMONIUM | April 18th 2008 by Cayusa
The other day The Baltimore Sun ran an article about a kid who ended up dead on the streets before they could serve a warrant on him. This article was a follow up to an article they ran back on April 3, 2008. I was going to comment on the origina read more
Gun Ban A Cosmetic Solution
The View From The Right | April 8th 2008 by Daniel
I don’t understand David Miller’s incessant calls for a ban on hand guns. Does he really believe that a ban will make a difference? I personally don’t particularly care whether or not Canadians are allowed to own guns. A ban won’t make one io read more
Stop-Loss
Total Diatribe | April 7th 2008 by billymac
The wife and I saw the film Stop-Loss this past weekend. I had never heard of the term stop-loss before I saw the movie, it is basically the ability of the US Army to involuntarily extend a soldier’s enlistment contract past the initial end o read more
Harper government vetoes Marc Emery plea deal
A Bcer In Toronto | March 28th 2008 by Jeff Jedras
The Conservative government’s actions in this case, nixing a deal between Marc Emery and U.S. prosecutors that would have seen him serve five years behind bars on money-laundering and drug charges, is puzzling.It was good enough for U.S. prosecutor read more
Prosecute Criminals, Not Hockey Players
The View From The Right | March 25th 2008 by Daniel
While I strongly support a tough on crime agenda, I have problems with law enforcement officials getting involved in sports. By now, everyone has heard about the brawl in Chicoutimi involving Patrick Roy and his son Jonathan. In the midst of an on ic read more
Call U.S. Attorney General Mukasey and ask him to meet with Commo…
All Things Reform | February 19th 2008 by David Weller
From Common Cause:Over the seven years of the Bush Administration, the American justice system has taken quite a beating. From the denial of fundamental civil rights and civil liberties to the outright abuse of our Constitution – the integrity of o read more
Cocaine Abuse
BeaverCute’s Weblog | January 24th 2008 by beavercute
“I would rather have a life span of ten years with coca than one of ten million centuries without it.” — Paolo Mantegazza Historically, drug dependencies has been attributed to sin, disease, maladaptive, self destructive, and an read more
Canadian Legal Experts Decry High Lawyer’s Fees part 2
DivorceOnline.Ca | December 25th 2007 by We-Divorce
The private sector is very limited in how it can respond to this problem. The limits come mostly from the fact that each province has legislation that grants provincial bar societies the right to restrict the practice of law. read more
Ex-Middle School Teacher, and student banger, due back in court
Total Diatribe | December 18th 2007 by billymac
Debra LaFave is due back in court in January, this time on probation violation. For those of you who don’t remember, LaFave was convicted of “lewd and lascivious battery on a child under the age of 16″ and admitted to having sex w read more
Ten Quotes on Justice
Quote It To Me | December 17th 2007 by Cesar L. Magnaye
I had the urge yesterday to comment (in my, yes, dog blog) on two celebrated local cases where, in my view, the executive branch of government might gain political mileage, but at the expense of an... (visit my blog for more...) read more
Levy’s Laughing Axe Attackers are Punks
Chris Chen.ca | December 13th 2007 by Chris Chen
Tuan Minh Nguyen and his friends left their sentencing for attacking Michael Levy with an axe, laughing while news cameras were rolling and the elevator doors closed. I guess I’d be cracking up too if I just got away their crime. After all, the read more
O.J. Simpson gets knock-off Rolex back
Total Diatribe | October 6th 2007 by billymac
Score one for Simpson? O.J. gets his Rolex back after an appraiser determined that the watch was only worth a hundred bucks. The watch was seized recently by the Goldman’s lawyers but was ordered to be returned after the appraisal came back read more
All Kinds of Jury Fun -- Not
Thoughtprints | October 4th 2007 by Leigh
I had jury duty yesterday. I was to be at the Justice Center by 8:30AM. Due to being so emotionally upset over losing Daisy the night before, I had not gone to bed until 3:30AM. It was very hard getting up at 7:00AM, to say the least, but I manage read more
Stupid laws and the gradual loss of our freedom
Total Diatribe | October 1st 2007 by billymac
As a gross generalization, we Americans have become numb to the erosion of our civil liberties. One of my biggest pet peeves are the passing of legislation put in place to “protect” us from ourselves. The simplest example of this are read more
More than just the “pubic hair in the coke guy”
Total Diatribe | September 30th 2007 by billymac
I caught most of the 60 Minutes interview of Clarence Thomas this evening between screaming fits of rage from my children. I was impressed with his candor and at how well spoken he was. Check out his wikipedia page here for more info. I agree w read more
Remember Where You Saw O.J.'s White Bronco, Heard About JFK Assas…
Hard To Swallow | September 20th 2007
absurd thought -God of the Universe saysembarrass law enforcementwhile defending your lifeyou might expect reprisalsabsurd thought -God of the Universe saysKILL your wifedeny it then write bookshowing how you would do itabsurd thought -God of the Uni read more
Bullies drown six year old boy and walk home FREE..where else?? I…
Stranger in America | August 14th 2007 by bhumika g
Three boys -- ages seven, eight and nine -- stripped the child naked and pushed him into the lake. He couldn't swim and drowned after he was unable to keep his head above water.Canada is a weired place I tell ya!! it allows murderers to walk free..ye read more
Law enforcement actually proves itself useful for a change?
flawedlogic.org | June 19th 2007
I know I have a fairly idealistic view of pretty much everything, but one thing I've especially never been huge on is law enforcement. It's not that I don't believe they should exist, or anything similarly ignorant; murderers need to be punished, an read more
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