I'm not talking about the football team, I'm talking about the state. I must confess that I haven't spent much time in the state. I lived in Aberdeen, Wash., for nearly two years, and I flew out of the Portland Airport a couple of times. I passed through the state on my way to that […]
Well, duh. To More Inmates, Life Term Means Dying Behind Bars I'm sorry, but I thought that was the whole point. And I suspect that the jurors who suggested the prison term also thought that was the whole point. Just a few decades ago, a life sentence was often a misnomer, a way to suggest […]
Several years ago I was watching a debate on C-SPAN between Alan Keyes and Alan Dershowitz over the role of religion in public life. A major point of contention was what it meant to be able to "practice" your religion. Dershowitz's preferred definition appeared to allow you to do whatever your religion required as a […]
I've got to confess I'm befuddled by this maneuver. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge overseeing a racketeering case against major cigarette makers to impose a long list of penalties on the companies, including a nationwide stop-smoking program and restrictions on tobacco marketing. "During the course of this trial, the United States has met […]
The lawyer for Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill has invoked the famous Internet rule on Nazi analogies in his defense of his client. (Apparently the irony of it all is lost on the lawyer.) A lawyer for the professor whose remarks about Sept. 11 victims touched off a firestorm wants officials to clarify how they intend […]
If the facts of the case are as presented here, and I have no reason to believe they are not, then I just went from calm to very angry. In a situation recalling the recent death of Terri Schiavo in Florida, an 81-year-old widow, denied nourishment and fluids for nearly two weeks, is clinging to […]
Famed attorney Johnnie Cochran died yesterday due to a brain tumor. Cochran's most well-known accomplishment was playing the race card to help former pro football star O.J. Simpson to get away with murder. My sympathies go out to his family. There's one big disappointing thing about Cochran's untimely death -- the Supreme Court may not […]
Lawyer Lynne Stewart, who was convicted of numerous terrorism-related charges is quickly becoming a cause celebre among leftists terror-supporters. The National Lawyers Guild -- a bunch of America-hating lawyers -- is sponsoring a "National Day of Outrage" Thursday. We will use this national Day of Outrage to both express our condemnation of the Lynne Stewart […]
I'll bet that his ghost would get kicked off the jury for cause. A Delaware County man who prosecutors say was killed by his father-in-law was called for jury duty in his alleged killer's murder trial. A court clerk says Scott Borton's name was listed in the jury pool for the first-degree murder trial of […]