Criminal Law

After Testimony Surfaces That Could Have Exonerated Man Imprisoned For 22 Years, U.S. Supreme Court Orders New Trial. Tennessee Prosecutors Would Be “Idiots” To Retry Him
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - Tennessee death row inmate Paul House said prosecutors would be “idiots” if they begin a new trial against him after nearly 22 years. In an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, House said he’s lost all faith in the criminal justice system and may pursue a lawsuit in his conviction for the 1985 [...

Idiots, Imbeciles, and Morons
In a recent state election Arkansas voters were asked to alter the following constitutional phrasing: “No idiot or insane person shall be entitled to the privileges of an elector...

Trendy home librariesugh.
Via Library Link of the Day… Most of the people in this article sound like complete idiots. (Or at least their clients sound like idiots.) I’ll be the first to acknowledge that books can be a lovely visual aspect of a room, but come on...

Prosecutors shouldn't be liable for making up evidence, lawyer says
Tim Masters is a Colorado man who spent years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. He's now suing the prosecutors and police who put him behind bars. The attorney for one of the prosecutors is arguing that "prosecutors...

COMPLETE MORAL AUTHORITY: What infuriates me is that idiots who cant even get their facts straigh
COMPLETE MORAL AUTHORITY: “What infuriates me is that idiots who can’t even get their facts straight, who play mix-and-match quotes in the process of assembling their ‘Ransom Note’ smears, nevertheless consider themselves so much my moral superior as to authoritatively condemn me based on their own ignorant misconceptions, and then act astonished that others [...

Utter Idiots and Why the United States Will Not Boycott the Beijing Olympics. By Dan Harris
Okay, so I didn't really write this, but I have thought this so many times in my head that somehow my thoughts must have transferred nearly 1 to 1 to this post. The post is "Utter Idiots and Why the United States Will Not Boycott the Beijing Olympics" and with two very minor variations, it conveys my thinking, exactly...