LA Times:
Dan De Vaul has repeatedly ignored the county's efforts to bring his facility up to code, judge says in ordering a 90-day sentence. Sunny Acres houses up to 70 homeless addicts near San Luis Obispo. If San Luis Obispo County rancher Dan D (Read More)
CNN:
The crucifix is at least two feet tall, with the figure of Jesus wearing a crown of thorns and hangs centered on the wall behind the judge. Even at the murder trial of Amanda Knox, the cross is a constant symbol of Italian history, identity and justice.
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washingtonpost.com - Editorials:
DURING THE BUSH administration, Republicans decried Democratic attempts to filibuster judicial nominees. Some went so far as to label such filibuster attempts unconstitutional and threatened to exercise the "nuclear option" to ban the procedural tool in nomination matters. (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor:
In his Oct. 6 op-ed, "The right place to try terrorists," former attorney general Michael B. Mukasey asked whether the main purpose of prosecuting suspected terrorists in federal courts "is to protect the citizens of this country or to showcase the country's criminal justice system, which has been done before and which fail (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Obituaries:
William C. Miller, 79, a retired Circuit Court judge in Montgomery County, who meted out the longest sentence in the county's judicial history up to that point, died Oct. 30 of congestive heart failure at his home in Silver Spring.
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LA Times:
Three judges of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that the claims by five men that they were tortured could go to trial. The Justice Department sought and was granted a rehearing. Five men who allege they were tortured after (Read More)
LA Times:
More than 100 guests come to the reservation near San Bernardino to watch the swearing-in of judges, all of whom are of Indian ancestry. There are more than a dozen formal Indian courts in California. The San Manuel Band of Mission Indian (Read More)
Washington Post:
President Obama has not made significant progress in his plan to infuse federal courts with a new cadre of judges, and liberal activists are beginning to blame his administration for moving too tentatively on what they consider a key priority.
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