The Libby Trial is the target of this op-ed in the WashPost by former DAAG Victoria Toensing. She has a list of other people whom she thinks should be charged, leading off with Patrick Fitzgerald.

Maryland DP: Also in the Post, former Maryland Governor Harry Hughes has this op-ed on Maryland's "inherently flawed" death penalty, making the same arguments made and refuted many times.

Cal. Prisons: David Lesher addresses the political dynamics of California's prison overcrowding problem in this LA Times op-ed.

Rape Rates: Mike Males notes in the LA Times that sexual assault rates among youth are actually down sharply, contrary to popular belief. He credits generational shifts in attitudes towards women.

Pizza neck-bomb case solved?: A bizarre and particularly cruel murder from 2003 may have been solved, AP reports. In his dying declaration, Brian Wells said he went to deliver a pizza and was accosted by gunmen who locked a bomb around his neck and forced him to rob a bank.

Standing up to crime too often brings retaliation. Oakland anti-crime activist Patrick McCullough routinely reported drug dealing in his area. Two years ago, he was confronted in front of his house by 15 young men shouting "Kill the snitch." He shot and wounded one of them. Today, on the second anniversary of that incident, a shotgun blast was fired through his front door, according to this SF Chron story by John Zamora. No one was home. "There's no way I'm going to leave. That's what they want me to do," McCullough added. "If all the law-abiding people give in, then they win and this block becomes a no-man's land."

Border Patrol Case: Debra Saunders in the Chron questions the US Attorney's exercise of discretion in the Ramos/Compean case.

Cop Killer Parole: Chicago Tribune readers react here to a Feb. 11 story about possible parole of Theodore Bacino for the 1974 murder of Deputy Sheriff Michael Mayborne.

Police Chase Case: Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy has a post with links to most of the briefs in Scott v. Harris, a Supreme Court case on civil liability for a police chase, set for argument Feb. 26.