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• 9/11 Families: Send Guantanamo Detainees To Federal Court

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 500
  This video, released by the American Civil Liberties Union today, features family members of 9/11 victims calling for federal trials of terrorism suspects. The Obama administration is expected to announce by November 16 whether certain Guantánamo detainees will be transferred to the U.S. for trial in federal courts ...
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• In Kentucky

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  " Kentuckys troubled death-penalty system lets cases languish for decades , is the title of a Louisville Courier-Journal report written by R. G. Dunlop. Kentucky is spending millionsof dollars each year on a capital-punishment system so ineffective thatmore death-row inmates are dying of natural causes than are ...
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• Massachusetts AG Criticized for Wood v. Allen Position

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  " Death penalty foes rip Coakley for signing brief ," is the title of Matt Visers report in todays Boston Globe. The amicus brief is here , in Adobe .pdf format. Attorney General Martha Coakley, who says she is firmly againstcapital punishment, has drawn the ire of some death penalty opponentsby urging the US ...
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• U.S. Lawmaker Pushes Death Penalty Appeals Overhaul

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Thats the title of a news report from AFP, via Google News.  LINK A US lawmaker has introduced legislation to end "inhumane andunconstitutional" rules that prevent death row inmates from presentingnewly discovered evidence to dispute their guilt. "Weve gotfolks on death row with no opportunity to show compelling ...
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• Zahir v. Bush (D.D.C. Oct. 28, 2009) – Discovery issues in GTMO habeas

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 429
  Judge Roberts has published a detailed, 15-page decision granting in part and denying in part Zahir’s motion for permission to propound various interrogatories in this habeas proceeding.The opinion contains extended discussion of what facts will ... Related Posts B An open letter to President George W. Bush – ...
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• News Coverage of Wood v. Allen & Prosecutorial Immunity Case

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  You can read the transcripts in Pottawattamie County v. McGhee and Wood v. Allen , via the Courts website. Adam Liptak writes, " Justices, in Aftermath of 2 Murder Cases, Hear Claims of a Process Gone Wrong ," for todays New York Times. The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two cases involving claims ...
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• When Ineffective Assistance Becomes Malpractice

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 766
  Ineffective assistance of counsel is a common habeas petition claim, particularly in capital cases.  This has led me to wonder whether legal representation that is constitutionally deficient should presumptively constitute legal malpractice.  After all, for a capital defendant, effective assistance of counsel can be ...
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• Are You Smarter Than A Supreme Court Justice?

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 134
  You know that the law of federal habeas corpus is broken when U.S. Supreme Court justices are deeply confused by it , and the lawyers arguing before them are having trouble explaining it, yet the only way a convicted state prisoner has a right to raise issues on federal habeas corpus appeal is without a lawyer. ...
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• Attorneys for DC Sniper Appeal to Supreme Court

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  " Supreme Court is asked to spare sniper ," is the report in todays Washington Post.  Its written by Maria Glod and Josh White. Attorneys for sniper John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the terrifying2002 Washington area shooting spree, asked the U.S. Supreme Court onTuesday to halt their clients execution, saying he ...
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• Uighur prisoner asks what is the difference between the US constitution and the Communist constitution? by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 539
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk4 November 2009At the weekend, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantánamo — Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province — were released to resume new lives in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau (population: 20,000). I have written at length ...
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• Urea scam accused man’s wife questions 12 years of trial delay

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday demanded the union government’s explanation as to why a Brazilian national has been left facing trial in Delhi for the last 12 years for his alleged role in the Rs.13.3 million urea scam.A bench of Justice Tarun Chatterjee issued the notice to the external affairs ...
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• The Ninth Circuit

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  David Savage writes, " California killers case back before Supreme Court ," for todays Los Angeles Times. The Supreme Court is considering, for the third time, the case of aCalifornia murderer who was sentenced to die in 1982 for the brutalkilling of a young woman. Twenty years ago, the CaliforniaSupreme Court ...
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• At the Supreme Court

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Beard v. Kindler , a Pennsylvania case will be heard in the Supreme Court this afternoon.  Erin Miller writes a preview, " When Can States Preclude Federal Habeas Review? " for SCOTUS Blog. Beard v. Kindler is a capital case with an unusual twist:the defendant appealing his sentence, Joseph Kindler, escaped ...
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• Supreme Court Could Confront Constitutionality of Spending Bill

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog points out that the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighur detainees who a judge ordered released into the United States will likely also force the Justices to consider the constitutionality of two bills President Obama signed yesterday. The issue in ...
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• Obamas Real Death Panels by Ted Rall

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 548
  Shortly after 9/11, George W. Bush secretly signed two executive orders. Both violated basic constitutional protections as well as U.S. obligations under international treaties, yet both carried the force of law. They still do. The first order grants the president (and other officials, including the secretary of ...
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• One Nation, Two Systems of Justice by Ted Rall

  
  Heartless Bastard — Authority: 138
  Episode 20 in a series of short animated political cartoons by award-winning syndicated cartoonist Ted Rall and David Essman www.rall.com music: Gioachino Rossini-Ranz des Vaches (call to the dairy cows) The Standells-Mr. Nobody Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• Senate Finally Allows Guantánamo Trials In US, But Not Homes For Innocent Men by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 539
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk27 October 2009After railing against Senators and Representatives for their cowardly, uninformed and unacceptable attempts to prevent President Obama from bringing any Guantánamo prisoner to the US mainland for any reason — even for trials ...
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• ‘Love jihad’: Courts ask Kerala, Karnataka police to probe (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Thiruvananthapuram/Bangalore, Oct 26 (IANS) Is there a movement called ‘love jihad’? The courts in Kerala and Karnataka have asked police to probe charges that Muslim youths were luring non-Muslim women with promise of marriage and forcibly converting them to Islam.Hindu and Christian groups in the two southern ...
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• Karnataka to probe ‘love jihad’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Bangalore, Oct 26 (IANS) Karnataka Police will probe whether a movement reportedly called the ‘love jihad’ exists in the state after charges that Muslim youths were luring non-Muslim women with promise of marriage and forcibly converting them to Islam, state Home Minister V.S. Acharya said Monday.The Criminal ...
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• CBI traces Aditya chandran ‘abducted’ by mother

  
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  New Delhi, Oct 26 A seven-year-old son of an estranged non-resident Indian (NRI) couple has been recovered from his mother, who was on the run for the past two years with the boy, Central Bureau of Investigation officials said here Sunday.The woman, Vijayasree Voora, and her son Aditya were presented before the ...
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