"Take note of Justice O’Connor’s remarks in
2001 that prompted the New York Times to editorialize that
the “legal "representation" afforded most indigent defendants...” is woefully inadequate. See Editorial, Justice
O’Connor on Executions, N.Y. Times, July 5, 2001, at A16.
Everage is appealing the verdict. Tuesday's secret hearing centered concerned the public defender assigned to Everage's case. Everage's new lawyer believes the public defender may have had a conflict of interest in the case, and maybe shouldn't have represented him in the first place. The new lawyer needed the courts permission to question the public defender about it. All of this was done behind closed doors.
UMMMMMMM, THEN I GUESS THE "CAPACITY" WOULD BE UNLAWFUL FOR YOU, OR ANY FEDERAL AGENT, TO SUPRESS ANY SPEECH OF ANY CITIZEN. ESPECIALLY MINE. SO THE ANSWER IS THE SAME AS THE "EXPERTS" AND THEIR REPORTS YOU SHOWED THE JURY.
Henry Louis Gates' Contempt Of Cop Emptywheel - At tonight's nationally televised press conference, a reporter asked President Obama a question about the July 16 arrest of famed Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Obama set off...
Contempt of Cop' by William Norman Grigg - The police are to the government as the edge is to the knife, insists sociologist David Bayley, who apparently couldn't explain why the typical...
Welcome to America Now step inside the jail cell - The audio exchange in this video was apparently recorded at the U.S. Canada border after a Canadian displayed contempt-of-cop towards the American law enforcement officer asking questions.
Contemptible police tactics - Cops raid the home of a licensed medical marijuana provider in Washington, handcuff the fourteen year old son and put a gun to his head, and search the nineteen year old daughter and take the contents of her mickey-mouse wallet.
How To Survive Traffic Stops in America, Submit, Instantly! - What the cops want is immediate obedience and submission. Many cops are ex-military and view the civilian motorists of America about like they viewed the hapless peasants of Iraq and Afghanistan, that is, with contempt, not as fellow citizens deserving of civility and respect. It is a possibly lethal mistake to do anything other than submit, instantly and obey! Or be ready to shoot first. But aim high.