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HOLDER’S LATEST LIES OBSCURED BY SYRIA
Attorney General Eric Holder, in what was widely reported by the fawning American press as an “historic announcement,” admitted much of what critics of the Department of Justice (DOJ) have long...
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ABU GHRAIB WHISTLEBLOWER RECEIVES MULTIPLE LIFE SENTENCES
On September 23, 2013, famed defense counsel and Abu Ghraib whistleblower Paul Bergrin was sentenced to multiple life terms as a result of his conviction on murder conspiracy, narcotics distribution...
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Government Shutdown Reveals Twisted Priorities
America’s government shutdown has provided a plethora of fodder for media outlets seeking to score points with select segments of their audience. Conservative news outlets have run repeated stories on...
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Corrupt, Conflicted and on the Federal Bench for Life
Despite their lifetime appointments and near limitless power, federal judges typically escape meaningful scrutiny from the media or public. Serious attention is typically for reserved Supreme Court...
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THE HYPOCRISY OF BERNIE KERIK
It has long been recognized that views or opinions are often situational and subject to change depending upon where one might currently be ensconced. Former Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo famously...
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America's Eichmann
Godwin’s Law is an assertion, widely credited to Mike Godwin of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, basically holding that a discussion essentially ends when a Nazi or Hitler analogy is raised and...
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Feds Arrest Fake Airport Bomber
On Friday, December 13, 2013, federal authorities announced the arrest of Terry Lee Loewen, 58. Loewen was charged with one count of trying to use a weapon of mass destruction, one count of attempting...
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Chris Christie's Prosecutorial Jam
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the media proclaimed frontrunner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, finds himself at a potential political dead end as a result of a scandal involving...
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Chris Christie and the Reign of the Imperial Prosecutor
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is being subjected to meaningful media scrutiny for possibly the first time in his public career. Prior to the ongoing revelations of his recent and reportedly...
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The Sociopathy of Chris Christie
The current scandals swirling around New Jersey Governor Chris Christie offer an interesting insight into a particular type of sociopathy, one that Christie has displayed since his days as a U.S....
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Recent Cases Highlight Rampant Prosecutorial Misconduct
The conviction rate in U.S. federal courts now exceeds an incredible 99%, something more akin to what one would expect in a Third World dictatorship or banana republic. The largely pre-ordained...
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Holder Calls for Sentencing Reform, Maybe
2014-03-18 11:00:00U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter prison sentences for many nonviolent drug offenders, saying the change would rein in runaway...
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The Pretense of Protection
In the wake of 9/11 there has been on ongoing massive buildup and militarization of local police departments, ostensibly for the purpose of protecting the public. Recent high profile incidents of...
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How Many Convicted Felons are there in the U.S?
A good friend who knows that I regularly write on criminal justice issues recently sent me an email inquiring as to how many convicted felons there are in the U.S. I expected the answer to be readily...
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The Pathology of Prosecution: a Broken System of Justice
"It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume... that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is...
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Kerry’s Advice to Snowden: “Man Up”
In the wake of an NBC interview with National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, Secretary of State John Kerry has stated that Snowden should “man up” and “trust the American system of...
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Iraq: Another False Prosecution
Recent events in Iraq demonstrate that wars, like people, are often prosecuted for reasons that have no logical connection to the official explanations offered. In the case of Iraq, various false...
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Nagin Hammered in the Big Easy
On July 9, 2014, former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. While not as lengthy a term as many had expected, it was nonetheless a significant sentence. Nagin, 58,...
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Feds Finally Admit it, Publicity Drives Prosecutions
The story came and went with little fanfare, but on July 14, 2014, Citigroup agreed to settle allegations stemming from its role in the mortgage crisis for $7 billion. The Department of Justice (DOJ)...
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When Federal Judicial and Prosecutorial Misconduct Meet
The conviction rate in U.S. federal courts currently stands at an incredible 99%, something akin to what one might expect to find in a third world banana republic or hardline authoritarian...
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