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Daily Archives: June 9th, 2007

Blackwater sues families of dead mercenaries

Talk about ambivalence. Blackwater has sued the families of the mercenaries (I try to keep this a no-euphemism zone) killed in Fallujah in what may be the ultimate SLAPP suit : Blackwater has now lifted this atrocity to a whole new level by going on the offensive and suing the families for $10 million. The […]

People with scruples need not apply

Does there come a point when death qualification deprives a defendant of a jury of his or her peers. In Today’s Times we learn that 60% of the people in this country may now be effectively disqualified from sitting on death penalty juries. All a prosecuter has to do to disqualify someone with the slightest […]