This bullshit is really OUTRAGEOUS.  I was a prosecutor, and when I had ANY doubt about a defendant’s guilt, I dropped the charges.   READ THIS, AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO SOME OF THE THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE IN PRISON IN AMERICA. Prosecutors tell innocent defendants that they will be freed if they plead guilty to a lesser charge; if they do not they will be retried, which could mean many more years of prison.  Some prosecutors say these...

  Rough day already! Carpe Diem!  10/2/19 … I did not sleep well when my friend, X, told me what happened in court yesterday. A guy I was helping by phone and email got screwed yesterday. Long story short: He was on trial in MO for the past two days and he had a PD who did NOTHING. He is, in fact innocent, yet was convicted of all 3 charges. He clutched on the stand and did not say what I had advised him to say, and his PD was...

Perhaps when the parties respond next week this judge will “reverse his reversal”.  All private prisons are bastions of cruelty and neglect, and GEO Group, the second largest such company, is no exception! The judge should have deviated from the principle of “intergovernmental immunity”, using a reasoning not used often enough, but solid:  “In the interest of justice”!  After all, justice is what it should be...

When it comes to tRump and the rule of law, Thank God for the other two branches of government.  This will end one part of tRump’s needless and deliberately cruel immigration policies.   Excerpts from the Article: A federal judge on Friday rejected new regulations that would allow the government to hold children and their parents in detention for indefinite periods, one of the Trump administration’s signature efforts to curtail the...

This guy, Tom Gores, and other owners of private prisons and private companies providing “services (classes, courses, treatment programs, probation) to the justice system are … as I have said for years …  a disaster. They are focused on profit, not helping the individual nor society!  All studies show that inmates who have more contact – visits and/or calls – with friends and family are LESS LIKELY TO RE-OFFEND....