“The U.S. attorney in Maine has now indicted two men on federal firearms charges for allegedly lying about their marijuana use on the gun purchase form.”
Read more: https://www.alternet.org/drugs/feds-can-indict-marijuana-users-buying-guns
“All of that [exculpatory] evidence was withheld by the same prosecutor who is now being hired to handle death penalty cases all over Louisiana.”
“They didn’t find a crime, but they did find a picture of Charles with marijuana from over a year prior. Based on that picture, his visa was revoked.”
“He never thought the 911 call could have been fake, he said.”
Read more: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article211644279.html
“We all went to law school because we don’t know science, we don’t know math. And if somebody comes in in a white lab coat…that’s good enough for government work.”
Read more: https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/05/22/stossel-junk-science-locks-up-innocent-p
“Not only do they attach strings to project funding such as this camera requirement in Richmond, they also finance many state and local surveillance programs outright.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/how-feds-use-transportation-funds-spy-you
“The problem for attorneys and clients is not just that prosecutors may try to admit elements of calls into evidence. It is also all the things prosecutors might learn and use to their benefit.”
“The teen has some options for paying off the millions. The court could authorize a supervising authority to create a payment plan.”
“The country has begun reversing military spending cuts and last year staged its biggest military exercises in nearly a quarter of a century, as well as voting to reintroduce conscription and unveiling joint plans with Denmark to counter Russian cyber-attacks and disinformation.”
“The US and Israel are insisting that not only were the killings legally permissible, but that any questioning of the deaths is tantamount to terrorism itself.”
Read more: https://news.antiwar.com/2018/05/20/israel-us-try-to-block-international-force-for-gaza-strip/