Belmontes Case. Layla Bohm of the Lodi News-Sentinel has this article on the Belmontes case, argued yesterday, as seen by the parents of Steacy McConnell.
Judicial Independence. Judge William Pryor of the Eleventh Circuit has this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, saying that the claims that judicial independence is in danger are overblown.
Patriot Act Challenge. Three years after hearing argument in the ACLU-led challenge to the Patriot Act, Judge Denise Page Hood of the Eastern District of Michigan has issued a decision. No, she hasn’t decided the constitutionality of the Patriot Act. She only decided that the plaintiffs have standing and the case can move forward. The AP story is here.
Bite attack gives murderer additional 10 years in prison. Hours before Laurence Jackson Jr. murdered a sheriff’s deputy and wounded another in 2003, he attacked and bit William Gone in the nose, ear and finger. Jackson who is already serving back to back life sentences for the above-mentioned crimes, was sentenced Monday to 10 additional years in prison by a U.S. District Judge. According to the AP story, doctors sent Gone’s family members searching for the missing parts in hopes of reattaching them.
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