A quick look around @ what is making news — other than raw politics
Just a few stories from other folks as the weekly gets prepped. Rolling update:
- The Trinidad & Tobago Express notes that hanging isn’t deterring murder there.
- This AP article looks at murder victims’ family members who are speaking out against the death penalty in Maryland. Specifically, “Vicki and Sylvester Schieber of Chevy Chase and Mary and Chris Wilson of Frederick lost loved ones to crime. But at a recent meeting at St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church in Frederick, the couples described how they came to feel that pursuing death for the murderers would have been an empty exercise that ultimately would aggravate, rather than help heal, their pain.”
- Windy Pundit has this amazing story on the Attorney Client Privilege. In 1982, Andrew Wilson confessed to his lawyers, Dale Coventry and Jamie Kunz, that he had robbed a McDonald’s on Chicago’s south side and killed security guard Lloyd Wycliffe with a shotgun. Bound by the confidentiality of attorney-client communications, the lawyers were unable to tell anyone about Wilson’s confession. They remained silent even as another man, 54-year old Alton Logan, was arrested for the murder. He was tried, convicted, and sent to jail for life.
- Curia Advisari Vult has posted their trial calendar from hell results — better them than me.
- Fight ‘Em ‘Til We Can’t notes that the “former head of the Hudson County Public Defender’s Office was expected to be sworn in last night as an Essex County Superior Court judge in a ceremony in Newark. Crazy. I can’t see anything like this ever happening here… ” The story on Hon. Denise Cobham’s elevation to the bench is here.
- Rabid Sanity reminds us why it is never smart to mess with the Marines. especially if you are a lawyer. Full story here.
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DNA, in combination, with an independent prosecutorial review of withheld evidence leads to release pending a decision on whether to drop a decades old murder case in Colorado.
