23 November 2003

Death Cases - Miscellaneous:

(1) Illinois has passed its new death penalty laws after emasculating the provision to punish officers who commit perjury.

(2) The murder of a family member causes a woman to redouble her efforts to stop the reasons for violence.

(3) Who keeps a bar receipt for two cocktails from three years ago?

(4) Eric Rudolph's lawyers are going to meet with a Justice Department panel to try to convince the government not to seek the death penalty.

(5) 16 years later a man is released because of DNA evidence.

(6) WOW. In California there is no finality in your sentence if you are convicted. Apparently, if you plot murders and the prosecutor doesn't like the sentence you get he can appeal a legal matter and - if he wins - get you a more severe sentence. Yeah, I know the feds do that too but this is the first State I've seen play ping-pong with people like this until it gets the "correct" sentence.

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