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The Docket: 10/29

By Mark Obbie

From the criminal to the profane, this week's portfolio of thought-provoking legal journalism has it all. Feel free to send your own thoughts to rsmascarenhas [at] gmail [dot] com.When 15-year-old Bukhari Washington was shot and killed in Newark, police quickly realized that identifying his killer was only the start of the mystery. The Star-Ledger dug deeper and tried to answer the bigger question: how did a military-style SKS rifle registered in 1992 in Georgia end up in New Jersey? National Public Radio has produced a moving three-part series on a 1972 murder that took place in isolated Angola, LA. Laura Sullivan looks around the small town and how the case still haunts the place, not least because the two men convicted of the crime have been held in solitary confinement there for a record 36 years. And finally, talk about a hall of mirrors: the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the so-called "fleeting expletives" case tomorrow. There's some question in the Legal Times, however, as to whether C-SPAN, which might release audio of the proceedings, will run afoul of the very FCC regulations being challenged in the proceedings. (For an interesting anthropological -- and deeply explicit -- take on the statute's wording, see Steven Pinker's piece in the New Republic.)-- Rohan Mascarenhas

Full post as published by Lawbeat on October 29, 2008 (boomark / email).