"Justices rebuff abortion foes on protest zone; Refuse to hear challenge to ’07 Mass. law" by Associated Press | March 23, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declined yesterday to hear a challenge to a Massachusetts law that creates a protest-free zone around the entrances and driveways of clinics that offer abortion services....
So the Supreme Court just endorsed "free-speech zones," sig heil.
In a statement yesterday, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley praised the Supreme Court’s decision not to review the ruling, saying the 2007 law “has enhanced public safety in a fair and constitutional manner.’’
Also yesterday, the court decided to consider a New Orleans prosecutors’ appeal of a $14 million judgment to a former death row inmate who accused them of withholding evidence to help convict him of murder. At issue is whether the New Orleans district attorney’s office can be held liable for the actions of prosecutors in the case of John Thompson. He spent 18 years in prison and once came within weeks of being executed before he was acquitted in a 2003 retrial in the killing of a hotel executive. The district attorney’s office does not contest that its prosecutors withheld a crime lab report favorable to Thompson.
But TRUST the POLICE and the COURTS and the MSM!!
Pfffft!
But prosecutors ordinarily may not be sued for their official actions.
The sign of a fascist society.
The high court underscored that point last year when it held that a California man who spent 24 years in prison after being wrongly convicted could not sue the former Los Angeles district attorney. The Supreme Court also has approved only narrow instances in which local government agencies can be sued for the wrongdoing of their rank-and-file employees. In this case, a jury awarded Thompson $14 million because it said the New Orleans district attorney failed to train its employees about turning over evidence....
So TOP GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES are ABOVE the LAW, huh?
I guess that's why we never see a war crimes case here.
In 1999, an investigator working on Thompson’s case discovered a crime lab report that prosecutors had not turned over, indicating that Thompson’s blood type did not match that of the perpetrator in the attempted robbery....
Yeah, that would seem to be KIND of IMPORTANT, no?
Related: CSI Massachusetts
Massachusetts Justice: Holding Back
Massachusetts Justice: Wrongful Convictions
Massachusetts Justice: Wrongful Imprisonment
MSM Xmas Gifts: To American Convicts
Around AmeriKa: Loony Louisiana
The court also rejected another appeal from the Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay who want the government to give them a 30-day notice of where they will be sent when they are released. The Chinese Muslims, or Uighurs, and detainees from other countries want to be able to challenge their transfer if they could be sent to countries where they have a reasonable fear of torture, or even continued confinement.
After being tortured here.
The government says it already has a policy against sending detainees anywhere they are likely to be tortured or imprisoned.
Anyone finding the Orwellian reporting disturbing, as if we do not torture?
Earlier this month, the court decided not to hear another case involving the Uighurs, this one seeking to give federal judges the right to release detainees in the United States. The prisoners, captured in Afghanistan in 2001, have been determined to pose no threat to the United States, but the government has opposed their request to be released here. Most of them have been accepted by other countries, including, most recently, Switzerland.
Yeah, but KEEP 'EM LOCKED UP ANYWAY as we LECTURE OTHER NATIONS on their justice systems!
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