Public Defense

Link dump

By Gideon

• ACLU presses for death row inmates’ rights.
• Apparently, there’s a wave of sexual offenders preying on nursing home residents. Not.
• State ethics bill “implodes“.
• Bill introduced in Congress to impose sanctions on countries that don’t take back illegal immigrants.
• State lawmakers discuss prison population.
• FBI determines Lieberman campaign to blame for crashing own site.
• Interesting 9th Circuit dissent discussing meaning of a PSR (pre-sentence report).
• Federal inmate sues to lift limits on passover foods.
• Prof. Berman wonders why Congress is “wasting time” taking stock of the state and quality of capital counsel, instead of making a “serious effort to get some of the excessive resources spent seeking to impede the executions of convicted murderers redirected toward providing more defendants charged with murder better initial representation.”
• A life of honor, one day at a time: One man’s story of turning his back on a life of crime.

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Full post as published by A Public Defender on April 11, 2008 (boomark / email).