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"Court OKs use of tracking devices in Medford drug case; Suspect Juan Pineda-Moreno challenged use of the electronic bugs after his arrest last year for possession of marijuana"

"Court OKs use of tracking devices in Medford drug case; Suspect Juan Pineda-Moreno challenged use of the electronic bugs after his arrest last year for possession of marijuana": This article appeared earlier this year in The Mail Tribune of Medford, Oregon reporting on a ruling that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued.

Today, the Ninth Circuit issued an order denying rehearing en banc in the case, over the passionate dissent of Chief Judge Alex Kozinski in which four other judges joined.

As Judge Kozinski's dissent observes, "There's been much talk about diversity on the bench, but there's one kind of diversity that doesn't exist: No truly poor people are appointed as federal judges, or as state judges for that matter. Judges, regardless of race, ethnicity or sex, are selected from the class of people who don't live in trailers or urban ghettos. The everyday problems of people who live in poverty are not close to our hearts and minds because that's not how we and our friends live."

Full post as published by How Appealing on August 12, 2010 (boomark / email).