Public Defenders, Bolstered by a Work Analysis and Rulings, Push Back Against …
Public Defenders, Bolstered by a Work Analysis and Rulings, Push Back Against …
More than a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that impoverished criminal defendants must be provided lawyers free of charge, the state of indigent defense remains “unconscionable,” in the words of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Colleen M …
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LEAVING TOWN. 12 YEARS A SLAVE: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. … *3 DAYS TO KILL: A dying Secret Service Agent trying to reconnect with his estranged …
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Puerto Rico and Wall Street's 21st Century Debt Peonage Imperialism
Unfortunately for Puerto Rico, its fuzzy political relationship with the United States is always described with euphemisms (“Commonwealth”) in order to avoid the undeniable truth: Puerto Rico is a colonial possession of the United States in the 21st …
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US drug policy fuels push for legal pot worldwide
… two leading political parties want to legalize its cultivation, at least for medical and industrial use. And in Mexico City, the vast metropolis of a country ravaged by horrific cartel bloodshed, lawmakers have proposed a brand new plan to let …
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