Animals
A couple of recent back-of-the-paper news items once again served as a reminder of the perils of getting caught up in the nation's haphazard criminal justice system, where political expedience too often results in a rush to judgment that obscures the truth.
The first was the death of Richard Jewell, the private security guard who saved lives during the Olympic bombing incident in Atlanta and ended up being victimized by an overzealous FBI director and the press in what has to be everyone's worst nightmare.
The second was the final punctuation to one of the larger travesties in modern jurisprudence, the unfounded allegations against three members of the Duke lacrosse team, with the conviction for criminal contempt of disbarred former prosecutor Michael Nifong.
Read the rest in The Sun Herald.
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The good news is Keith Shephered the off duty police officer who shot Bear-Bear was found GUILTY! The bad news is his sentence was a JOKE. Today, Keith Elgin Shepherd was found guilty of unlawfully discharging a weapon and animal cruelty but avoided any...
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Michael Hamlett, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System, plans to meet with one member of the Library Board before deciding the fate of a best-selling book by comedian Jim Norton, pulled from the shelves of the system's branches last...
- Public School Teacher Has Sex With 11 Year Old Student
A former elementary school teacher pleaded guilty Friday to having sex with an 11-year-old student and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a prosecutor said. Wendie Ann Schweikert, 37, was arrested in May 2006 and charged with criminal sexual conduct...
- Childcare In The United States
Many states are distressingly lax in their regulation and oversight of child care centers, according to a new nationwide survey which gives its lowest marks to Idaho and Louisiana and its highest grade to the far-flung system run by the U.S. military....
- Guilty Until Proven Innocent
I think it is unconscionable that this woman has been allowed to ruining these young men's lives. I hope she is prosecuted for lying. In another development, the stripper who initially claimed she was beaten, raped and sodomized by three Duke University...
Animals
Guilty until proven innocent
A couple of recent back-of-the-paper news items once again served as a reminder of the perils of getting caught up in the nation's haphazard criminal justice system, where political expedience too often results in a rush to judgment that obscures the truth.
The first was the death of Richard Jewell, the private security guard who saved lives during the Olympic bombing incident in Atlanta and ended up being victimized by an overzealous FBI director and the press in what has to be everyone's worst nightmare.
The second was the final punctuation to one of the larger travesties in modern jurisprudence, the unfounded allegations against three members of the Duke lacrosse team, with the conviction for criminal contempt of disbarred former prosecutor Michael Nifong.
Read the rest in The Sun Herald.
- Justice For Bear~bear (not Really)
The good news is Keith Shephered the off duty police officer who shot Bear-Bear was found GUILTY! The bad news is his sentence was a JOKE. Today, Keith Elgin Shepherd was found guilty of unlawfully discharging a weapon and animal cruelty but avoided any...
- Jackson- George Regional Library System Pulls Book For Review
Michael Hamlett, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System, plans to meet with one member of the Library Board before deciding the fate of a best-selling book by comedian Jim Norton, pulled from the shelves of the system's branches last...
- Public School Teacher Has Sex With 11 Year Old Student
A former elementary school teacher pleaded guilty Friday to having sex with an 11-year-old student and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a prosecutor said. Wendie Ann Schweikert, 37, was arrested in May 2006 and charged with criminal sexual conduct...
- Childcare In The United States
Many states are distressingly lax in their regulation and oversight of child care centers, according to a new nationwide survey which gives its lowest marks to Idaho and Louisiana and its highest grade to the far-flung system run by the U.S. military....
- Guilty Until Proven Innocent
I think it is unconscionable that this woman has been allowed to ruining these young men's lives. I hope she is prosecuted for lying. In another development, the stripper who initially claimed she was beaten, raped and sodomized by three Duke University...