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End-of-Week Roundup

By Gritsforbreakfast

Here are a few short items that deserve Grits readers' attention:Jail 'em now, accuse 'em laterFort Worth Star Telegram editorial writer Linda Campbell offered up an excellent editorial about the Kafka-esque implications of the Rothgery case argued this week before the Supreme Court, discussed by Grits here and here. She was as astonished by the arguments for Gillespie County as I was that it was constitutional to lock a defendant up in jail for weeks or months without charging them or providing them access to an attorney. Incidentally, Gregory Coleman, who argued the case for the county and was "pummeled" by Scalia and other Justices, in Campbell's words, is one of Governor Perry's appointees to the board of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).