Thou shalt not tweet. "The Michigan Supreme Court has laid the hammer down on gadget-happy
jurors in banning all electronic communications by jurors during trial,
including tweets on Twitter, text messages and Google searches," reports Tresa Baldas in the NLJ.
TSA going too far? WSJ air travel columnist Scott McCartney has this story about airport screeners going beyond airline security and searching and questioning passengers for evidence of other crimes.
DNA Cracks Cold Case: A Hawaiian judge has sentenced habitual criminal Darnell Griffin to LWOP for the 1999 sexual assault and murder of 20-year-old Evelyn Luka, as reported by Jim Dooley in this story from the Honolulu Advertiser. Griffin, who served sixteen years for the earlier murder of another young woman, was identified by a DNA sample taken in 2007. The sample taken by Griffin's parole officer matched a sample collected from Luka, who was found lying next to a freeway after being raped and strangled. Her brother, Air Force Major James Morimoto, endorsed the life sentence but only because Hawaii does not have a death penalty. An earlier story by Peter Boylan reported that Griffin was convicted and sentenced to life with the opportunity of parole for the rape and strangulation murder 26-year-old X-ray technician Lynn Gheradi in October of 1980. In most other states either of these rape/murder convictions, would have made Griffin eligible for a death sentence.
Risky to Let Jose Padilla Sue John Yoo: An LA Times editorial expresses the Editorial staff's doubts over whether it is a good idea to allow Jose Padilla sue John Yoo for authoring the infamous torture memos. Last month U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White ruled Padilla could proceed in a lawsuit against Yoo for violating his civil rights. The Judge White reasoned: "Like any other government official, government lawyers are responsible for the foreseeable consequences of their conduct." The LA Times agrees, but believes "offering a legal interpretation, even a flawed or foolish one, isn't conduct; it's an intellectual enterprise. Conscientious lawyers shouldn't have to fear that their judgment of what the law allows will implicate them in policies they may abhor -- or in abuses that go beyond what the policies allow."
TSA going too far? WSJ air travel columnist Scott McCartney has this story about airport screeners going beyond airline security and searching and questioning passengers for evidence of other crimes.
DNA Cracks Cold Case: A Hawaiian judge has sentenced habitual criminal Darnell Griffin to LWOP for the 1999 sexual assault and murder of 20-year-old Evelyn Luka, as reported by Jim Dooley in this story from the Honolulu Advertiser. Griffin, who served sixteen years for the earlier murder of another young woman, was identified by a DNA sample taken in 2007. The sample taken by Griffin's parole officer matched a sample collected from Luka, who was found lying next to a freeway after being raped and strangled. Her brother, Air Force Major James Morimoto, endorsed the life sentence but only because Hawaii does not have a death penalty. An earlier story by Peter Boylan reported that Griffin was convicted and sentenced to life with the opportunity of parole for the rape and strangulation murder 26-year-old X-ray technician Lynn Gheradi in October of 1980. In most other states either of these rape/murder convictions, would have made Griffin eligible for a death sentence.
Risky to Let Jose Padilla Sue John Yoo: An LA Times editorial expresses the Editorial staff's doubts over whether it is a good idea to allow Jose Padilla sue John Yoo for authoring the infamous torture memos. Last month U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White ruled Padilla could proceed in a lawsuit against Yoo for violating his civil rights. The Judge White reasoned: "Like any other government official, government lawyers are responsible for the foreseeable consequences of their conduct." The LA Times agrees, but believes "offering a legal interpretation, even a flawed or foolish one, isn't conduct; it's an intellectual enterprise. Conscientious lawyers shouldn't have to fear that their judgment of what the law allows will implicate them in policies they may abhor -- or in abuses that go beyond what the policies allow."
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