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Am I The Only Criminal Lawyer This Happens To?

By Brian Tannebaum

Where have I been? Getting angry. Going through that occasional "what's happening to our criminal justice system?"In the past few weeks I've both personally and in the news seen the following:1. A Texas inmate on the verge of execution denied an appeal and then executed because the Court of Appeals told his lawyers who were running late due to a computer malfunction, "we close at 5."2. A man pardoned after being sentenced to 25 years in prison for possessing too many pain killers. 25 years!3. Two separate prosecutors, federal and state, completely ignore polygraph results. (When are we going to get right with this polygraph thing?)4. A man arrested at his home by 2 police officers who knocked on his door on a Sunday night while he was with his family, did the whole "we got a 911 call from this residence can you step outside" thing, and then took him to jail for...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on October 06, 2007 (boomark / email).