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CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
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Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners
The Economist
Eyes on the Big Easy
Editorial
Washington Post
Don't Kid Yourself, It's a Police State
by Garry Reed
The Examiner
Just Making It Up as They Go Along
by Scott H. Greenfield
Simple Justice
Maryland Prosecutors Overstep on Wiretapping Law
Editorial
Washington Post
The Nature of the U.S.-Mexico Drug War: Equal Responsibility, Unequal Costs
by Devin Parsons
Guatemala Times
Certain Knowledge
by Radley Balko
Slate
The Thompkins Decision: A Threat to Civil Liberties
by Steven R. Shapiro
Wall Street Journal
Ninja Bureaucrats on the Loose
by Quin Hillyer
Washington Times
Every Crime Needs a Victim
by Laurence M. Vance
LewRockwell.com
The Threat to Miranda
Editorial
New York Times
Miranda Rights Threatened
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
You Have the Right to Remain Constitutional
by Sol Wachtler
New York Times
How Audacious! The Government Tries to Overturn Principles of Law Dating Back to the 13th Century
by Henry Porter
The Guardian
Watching the Detectives
by Radley Balko
Reason.com
Paramilitary Police Don't Make Us Safer
by Radley Balko
Washington Times
Pre-Crime Policing
by Radley Balko
Reason
Demilitarizing Local Police
by Richard Diamond
Washington Times
Our Human Rights vs. The Others
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
The Trial of Aafia Siddiqui
by Joanne Mariner
Findlaw.com
Didn't Obama Learn Due Process at Harvard?
by Nathan Dodell
Washington Times
Witness Protection for Deadbeat Witnesses
by Joe Consumer
ThePopTort.com
The Forfeiture Racket
by Radley Balko
Reason
Federal Crimes and the Destruction of Law (pdf)
by William L. Anderson
Cato Institute
Feds Run Amok? Civil Liberties Lawyer Uncovers Prosecutors' Abuse of Power
by Matthew W. Hutchins
Harvard Law Record
Making Criminals Out of All Americans
by Gene Healy
Cato Institute
"It Opened Our Eyes"
by Radley Balko
Reason
The Wrong Arm of the Law
by Dan Kennedy
The Guardian
Police State: The Militarization of the Police Force in USA (Video)
YouTube.com
We're All Felons, Now
by Radley Balko
Reason
The Government Is Making Criminals of Us All
by Andrew "Ponch" Quinn
Trinity Tripod
Open Up Blackwater's Closed Hearing
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
Piling on Penalties
by Jacob Sullum
Washington Times
Author Tells of Bribes, Perjury, Feds Gone Haywire
by Harvey A. Silverglate
Boston Herald
You Commit Three Felonies a Day
by L. Gordon Crovitz
Wall Street Journal
Criminalizing Everyone
by Brian W. Walsh
Washington Times
Should Government Officials Who Despise Us Get More Power Over Our Lives?
by J.D. Tuccille
The Examiner
Shooting of Traffic Ticket Dissident Shows Importance of Reining-In Police
by J.D. Tuccille
BBC
MCSO Harassing Me at Gran Mercado (Video)
by Carlos Galindo
YouTube
Don't Tase Me, Sis
by Radley Balko
Reason
Wrong Door Raids and the Injustice of the Justice System (Video)
by Radley Balko
Pajamas TV
Why Are Cops Tasering Grandmothers, Pregnant Women and Kids?
by Scott Thill
Alternet.org
Teen Dressed in Fatigues While Hiking Arrested (video)
AZFamily.com
Let's Talk about Tasers
by Digby
Salon.com
The Folly of Hate-Crime Laws
by Richard Cohen
Washington Post
Unparalleled and Denied
Editorial
New York Times
Subpoena Seeks Names -- and Lots More -- of Web Posters
by Thomas Mitchell
Las Vegas Review Journal
Dashcam Video Shows Officer Tasering 72-Year-Old Woman
by J.D. Tuccille
The Examiner
These Laws Should Go
by J. Matt Barber
Washington Times
Hate-Crimes Legislation Is Worth Hating
by Chuck Fowler
Washington Post
Fujumori's Instructive Fall
Editorial
New York Times
The Bush Six
by Jane Mayer
The New Yorker
Spain Investigates What America Should
by Marjorie Cohn
San Francisco Chronicle
Prosecutors Gone Wild
by John Farmer
New York Times
Fake Faith and Epic Crimes
by John Pilger
JohnPilger.com
Slouching Toward Soviet Justice
by Bruce Fein
Washington Times
Britain's Bizarre Reaction to War Crimes Allegations: Investigations Needed
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
War Crimes and Double Standards
by Robert Parry
Consortium News
President Is Not Above the Law
by Randy Barbato
USA Today
The Price of America's Prison Gulags
by Anthony Gregory
Consortium News
Is the Supreme Court About to Kill Off the Exclusionary Rule?
by Adam Cohen
New York Times
Jury Nullification at Work in Marijuana, Gun Cases
by J.D. Tuccille
DC Examiner
Leon Panetta Pledges that No CIA Employees Will Be Prosecuted for War Crimes
by Jonathan Turley
Res Ipsa Loquitur
The Definition of a "Two-Tiered Justice System"
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail
by Amy Goodman
Truthdig.com
Cornyn's Outrageous Confirmation Demand
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
It's Time to Choose Right Over Wrong
by Joseph L. Galloway
McClatchy
Parsing Obama
by Andrew Sullivan
The Daily Dish
Mr. Bush and the Pardon Power
Editorial
New York Times
Bush: Forget the Pardons
by Rosa Brooks
Los Angeles Times
If Obama Doesn't Prosecute Bush's Torture Team, We'll Pay a Big Price Down the Road
by Liliana Segura
Alternet.org
Post-Partisan Harmony vs. the Rule of Law
by Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Protecting the Lawyer-Client Relationship
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
Destructive Overreach
by Richard Rahn
Washington Times
America's Gulag Just Keeps Growing
by Ethan Nadelmann
Alternet.org
Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations'
by Adam Liptak
New York Times
A Fool and His Lawyer
by Jonathan Turley
Los Angeles Times
Falsely Accused Woman Freed After 70 Years
by David Sapsted
The Telegraph
The Presence of Malice
by Richard Moran
New York Times
Lucky Libby
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
Independence Day for Libby
by Robert Scheer
Los Angeles Times
The Commuter in Chief
by Eugene Robinson
Washington Post
Just Another Obstruction of Justice
by Marcy Wheeler
The Guardian
America’s 21st Century Monarchy
by Sidney Blumenthal
The Guardian
Soft on Crime
Editorial
New York Times
The Break-In that History Forgot
by Egil Krogh
New York Times
Above the Law?
Editorial
USA Today
Blinded by the Law
by Radley Balko
Chicago Tribune
Beyond the Law
by Jonathan Turley
Washington Post
No Pardon for Libby
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
Oh, Henry!
by Peter McMahon
Washington Post
The Ruling on Jose Padilla's Competence to Stand Trial
by Elaine Cassel
Findlaw.com
Secrecy and Common Sense
Editorial
Washington Post
Police Overkill Leaves a Trail of Death
by John W. Whitehead
Christian Post
SWAT Overkill: The Danger of a Paramilitary Police Force
by Glenn Reynolds
Popular Mechanics
Ruby Ridge Revisited: Deval Let Sniper Off the Hook
by Kimberly Atkins
Boston Herald
What the "Shield" Covered Up
by Edward J. Dionne
Washington Post
What Judy Forgot: Your Right to Know
by Robert Scheer
Los Angeles Times
Leak Case Prosecutor Raises Questions That Demand Answers
by Ronald Brownstein
Los Angeles Times
Our 27 Months of Hell
by Joseph C. Wilson IV
Los Angeles Times
Fitzgerald's Moment
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
No Winners, Lots of Losers in CIA-Leak Case
Editorial
USA Today
Forget the Bad Memory Defense
Editorial
Central Florida Future
Indicting America
by Scott Ritter
Common Dreams
A Moment of Truth
by Elaine Cassel
City Pages
The War on Judges
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
Attacking a Free Judiciary
Editorial
New York Times
One Nation Under Law
by Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
Theresa Marie Schiavo
Editorial
New York Times
Ploy Chorus … Law Libretto
by Bruce Fein
Washington Times
Good Judgment
Editorial
Washington Post
Railroading Moussaoui
by Mike Whitney
Counterpunch.org
No Defense
by Andrew P. Napolitano
Los Angeles Times
A Whistle-Blower’s Inside View of the Homeland Security Nominee
by Jesselyn Radack
Los Angeles Times
Chertoff and Torture
by Dave Lindorff
AlterNet.org
Everyone's a Suspect
by Ilya Shapiro
Washington Times
A Stain on Maryland
by Lee Hockstader
Washington Post
Adering to the Rule of Law
by Nat Hentoff
Washington Times
Mr. Gonzalez's Record
Editorial
Washington Post
Legal Plundering
by Doug Bandow
Washington Times
Sometimes, Jurors Have to Take a Stand and Say, "No, Not in Our Name"
by Lara Bazelon
Los Angeles Times
There Are Too Few Lawsuits, Not Too Many
by Amitai Etzioni
Los Angeles Times
Lawsuits Protect Public
by Harvey F. Wachsman
USA Today
Dangerous Errors
Editorial |