Seeking Justice: A story by Jeff Mangum from the Orange County Register discusses the 17-year ordeal of an Arizona woman whose 9-year-old daughter was stabbed to death in 1990. The murderer, who was an 18-year-old drug addict and prostitute at the time, confessed to killing the little girl in order to burglarize their home for money and valuables to feed her drug habit. Since "Rosie" Alfaro was sentenced to death in 1992, her case has dragged on through the appellate courts.

Wiretapping Terrorists: A divided panel of the Sixth Circuit has overturned a lower court ruling which had held as unconstitutional the government's warrantless electronic surveillance of international communications by suspected terrorists. A Bloomberg story by Robert Schmidt reports the court's decision announcing that the ACLU and others lacked standing to challenge the surveillance.