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Showing posts with label FAMM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FAMM. Show all posts
Thursday, October 16, 2014

a defense of John Grisham

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Radley Balko steps in to remind us that John Grisham is not a lunatic who cares nothing for justice even though Grisham himself has apologi...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

the effect of violence on children and the need to do something about it

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In an opinion piece in the Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska US Attorney Deborah Gilg talks about the need to recognize how violence affects chil...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

questioning child pornography laws

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It isn't enough to sit back and assume that those making the decisions about law and punishment are doing it effectively. Thinking citiz...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

audit reveals errors in national DNA database

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The FBI maintains a database of DNA samples, taken from convicts, suspects, and crime scenes. A recent audit showed errors in nearly 170 pro...
Friday, January 3, 2014

why I admire defense attorneys

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Radley Balko interviewed longtime Louisiana defense attorney Sam Dalton for an August 2013  article on prosecutorial misconduct . As his fi...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

speak up; speak out

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My Christmas gift to you: a call for common sense.  In 2006, Congressman Robert Scott of Virginia begged Congress to think carefully befo...
Friday, April 5, 2013

rand paul wants to give judges a way to ignore mandatory minimum sentences

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Exciting to see Rand Paul doing something to lessen the impact of mandatory minimum sentence s. Heck, it's exciting to see someone in th...
Monday, February 18, 2013

child porn sentences now included on FAMM site

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Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) has done good work focusing on the problems presented by mandatory minimum sentencing. When I fi...