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374. Your dishonor

By Joel Jacobsen

The mass media has a simple rule of thumb for measuring the newsworthiness of any story about the judiciary: it's not news unless it's been done to death already. That's why you hardly heard about about Knowles v. Mirzayance, decided two weeks ago, and what little coverage there was missed the only particularly significant thing about it. The Associated Press dutifully sent out a dispatch that manages, in good AP style, to make it bland and boring. Google News doesn't reveal any other mass media coverage. And yet there's something noteworthy about the opinion. Mr. Mirzayance confessed to police that he stabbed his niece 19 times and shot her 4 times, which, from a defense lawyer's point of view, can be considered the kind of thing that might reduce the likelihood of acquittal below the threshold of optimism...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).