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Full title: How to steal $75,000 from the poor in one Day's work - traffic court is a tax collection scheme masked as justice The new liberality concerning marijuana possession in the United States is long overdue, but let’s not exaggerate how much progress we’ve made. Users might not be ending up in jail as frequently as they did 10 years ago. But cops, judges, and courts still exercise arbitrary power to ruin people’s lives, and they continue to do so at astonishing rates, all over the country. I recently saw this firsthand. I sat in a municipal traffic court...

Mother of teen killed by alleged impaired driver pleads for his capture after he bails out, disappears Updated: 01/28/2015 6:48 PM | Created: 01/28/2015 6:35 PM By: Stuart Dyson, KOB Eyewitness News 4 A local [Albuquerque, New Mexico] woman is dealing with the unthinkable after losing her teenage son to an alleged hit-and-run drunk driver. Her grief is real, and so is the fight to get the man accused of killing her son back behind bars. "He was almost home – a hundred yards," said Penny Brown-Meira, Jonathan Brown's mother, of just how close her son was to being home...

The courts may be privatized in a justice shake-up that could save the Ministry of Justice £1 billion ($1.51 billion) a year. The plans would free the courts from Treasure control, placing court buildings and thousands of staff in the hands of private companies. … Fears that privatization would erode the independence of the courts would be allayed by placing the courts under a Royal Charter, as has been proposed for the regulation of the press. …

Published on Jun 28, 2012 by frankknee June 15 2012 Connecticut Judges rubberstamp rules and nominations without discussion, care, or acumen to the issues which underlay them. Some citizens are calling for the inclusion of Civilian Oversight committees, with a voice, during meetings such as the one portrayed: Video is edited with the text throughout the work attempting to enlighten, offering counter arguments, and some discourse to otherwise a blatantly numbing response from the judges. ABOUT THE RULES ENABLING ACT (REA) , NOTING CONNECTICUT'S VIOLATION TO PROMULGATE RULES BEFORE 60 DAYS: 18:15 REA allowed Congress and State Legislatures to transfer...

JAMES CITY COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) - There was another heartbreaking delay in court Wednesday for the family of a 16-year-old girl who police say was raped and murdered nearly six years ago by an illegal immigrant who is also deaf and mute. Unless Oswaldo Martinez, who prosecutors say is a perfect DNA match to the killer, learns enough sign language to communicate with his attorney, he might never stand trial. The body of Brittany Binger was discovered in January 2005 on a patch of grassy land right in front of the mobile home park where she lived in James City...

An Athens appeals court acquitted a well-known Greek neo-Nazi of Holocaust denial. The five-member court on Friday found Kostas Plevris not guilty of "incitement to racial hatred and violence against the Jews" over his 1,400-page book "Jews -- The Whole Truth," which denies the Holocaust and is blatantly anti-Semitic. Plevris had been convicted in December 2007 and sentenced to 14 months in prison, as well as three years probation. The Greek Jewish umbrella organization, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, in a news release said the court's decision "saddens, perplexes and causes concern among citizens of a modern...

From The Ohio InJustice Files:JoeClarke.Net Clarkence Elkins was convicted of raping and killing his mother-in-law and raping his 6 year old niece and then put away in the slammer to rot. The prosecution evidently coached the 6 year old to identify Clarence at the scene of the crime, although he had 19 witnesses saying that he was in another city - many miles away - at the time of the crime.Appeal after appeal was turned down. A praying wife and other supporters (such as the stalwarts at Innocence Project in Ohio http://www.truthinjustice.org/ipcontacts.htm) did not give up . New twist in...

Legend has it that the publication of The Great Gatsby pushed Ernest Hemingway into a deep depression. Hemingway is supposed to have confided to friends that he found it difficult to write after reading Gatsby because it had been his dream to write The Great American Novel and Fitzgerald had beaten him to it. Now I know how he felt. My dream was less Homeric than Hemingway’s. I figured with my talent, I needed to set the bar lower. Setting it on the ground seemed appropriate, but I was afraid if the bar were lying in the dirt, others might...

AS REAGAN CITED EVIL IN THE USSR, IT'S NOW TIME TO NAME IT IN U.S. -- AND REST OF WEST By Michael H. Brown In a biography of Ronald Reagan is described that dramatic speech in which the late president courageously named the Soviet Union as the "focus of evil in the world," as an "evil empire."  It was a speech that had an effect around the world -- contributing dramatically to the demise of the Soviet Union (as we pointed out last week). What we didn't point out, and will now, is that in the audience at the speech...

<p>Stymied by the Miguel Estrada filibuster, Senate Republicans on Monday moved to another of President Bush's pro-life judicial nominees, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen.</p> <p>Pro-life senators want a quick confirmation vote on Owen, who is nominated for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.</p>