Srinagar, November 21 (Scoop News)- Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has said political parties lacking vision; efficiency and integrity need nothing else to lose the confidence of people. Addressing a workers meeting of Chadoora constituency today he said National conference does not need anybody’s moneybags to degenerate further as long as its […]
Some Get Prizes, Others Jail
October 31, 2012 Some Get Prizes, Others Jail A Tale of Two Reporters Iddhis Bing On the evening of October 27, the Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis was awakened by police who arrested him and hauled him off to jail. The charge? Hot Doc, the magazine he writes for and edits, […]
The Amanda Knox Case: The Unbearable Thoughtlessness of Guilt
Written by Luca Cheli (Roteoctober) Monday July 9, Turin, Italy Originally posted on the Injustice in Perugia Blog. “They wanted to pose as the greatest Sherlock Holmeses and they put two poor kids in jail for four years.” Carmelo Lavorino, Italian Chriminologist October 4th 2011 Foreword In this paper I examine the available evidence […]
Healthcare and the Supreme Court – Losing the Legal Forest for the Political Trees
NFIB v. Sebelius is the caption atop the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Thirty, fifty, even a hundred years from now, law students will be grilled on NFIB v. Sebelius as part of their first-year Constitutional Law classes. And when law professors lecture (or Socratically harass) their students […]
Florida Police Officer’s Issues with Red Light Cameras
While some police officers agree that red light camera systems help prevent drivers from running red lights, a large amount of policemen do not advocate these devices. Neither the St. Augustine police nor the St. Johns County Sheriff is fond of red light cameras. Other police officers have mixed reviews about red light cameras. If […]
It’s time to let them go! Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have played by the Italian rules.
In November of 2007 the 21 year old English student Meredith Kercher was brutally murdered and sexually assaulted in her apartment room in Perugia, Italy by a young, inexperienced burglar, Rudy Guede, whom the cops had already begun to know, but for unknown reasons had never arrested. A shocking crime to her family, her friends, […]