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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Why can't prosecutors convict cops?

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It drives me crazy!  You see the police do something that's just nakedly illegal, it's caught on video, it's morally and legally...
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Sunday, September 07, 2014

Prop 36 - drugs and 3 strikes

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I've written before on the fact that I consider propositions to be the scourge of California politics.  I still consider them to be so. ...
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Saturday, September 06, 2014

PD Dude - Back posting again?

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Why post?  Why write?  How to keep it up? How to stay relevant?  How to write about things that are interesting to people who look at a spec...
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Saturday, September 03, 2011

And You Thought You Had a Difficult Case.

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In New Orleans, they do things FAST. And some of the details tend to get blurred. Read this newspaper article from New Orleans: The g...
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Thursday, September 01, 2011

Connick v. Thompson (2011) and Arizona v. Youngblood (1988) - Linked in Outrage

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I wanted to add an issue that I did not address in my last post about Connick v. Thompson (2011). To clarify, the facts of Connick v. Thomps...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Actually Innocent? We Don't Give a Damn.

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This is a short post. I haven't posted in a year, so a lot of things happened that I didn't comment on. Here is a big one. In Connic...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Another Update on William Richards, FVI00826 - Actual Innocence is a Sham

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I posted more than a year ago about an excellent granting of a habeas corpus petition by Judge Brian McCarville. The defendant is William Ri...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

I was fooled

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I admit it. I supported Barack Obama. I was fooled. He is a corporatist, and he does not have the interests of most Americans at heart. Don...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Connect the Dots

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I haven't posted in a long time, so let me make a short post to observe a few "connect the dots" observations - I want to conn...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Further Reflections on the Marijuana Legalization Initiative in California

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I posted in the wee hours (I couldn't sleep) about my beliefs about the coming marijuana legalization initiative on the November 2010 ba...
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