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What If We Federalized The Entire Criminal Justice System?

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

It's heartwarming to know that when you have a blog and stop writing for a while, you get treated as if you haven't called your mother, and she's worried you may not be eating, or dead.Since I've been observing and not blogging, some significant things have happened.On the federal side, Guantanamo detainess now have the right to contest their detention in federal court. Most people have never been to federal court, where contesting detention these days of any defendant is a long shot, but cue the fear mongering war on terrorism types who claim that this of course means they will all be released into the streets of America and we should all be afraid, very afraid.On the state side, budget cuts are causing public defender's offices to cut staff and refuse to take cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on July 12, 2008 (boomark / email).