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It is Time to EDUCATE Ourselves About the Courts and Take Back ALL Three of Our VOTES! I know, some of us are saying to ourselves, "3 VOTES? Sounds like a Dem Party Scandal where Fairy Tale Characters and the Dead vote." NOPE! We have 3 VOTES, but the Power hungry Government Thugs and the Judiciary Oligarchy Drummers don't want you to know about it! This post is PACKED with INFO, so you may want to bookmark some of the links. The Citizens Rule Book: JURY HANDBOOKI came across this when I was all in a tither about the...

THE CASE AGAINST STANLEY WILLIAMS by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher December 12, 2005 Barring the unexpected wherein Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) (right) grants clemency to convicted capital murderer and Crips co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Stanley will get up close and personal with the death chamber just before midnight tonight as he is strapped to a gurney. At 12:01, the lethal cocktail of chemicals will flow into his veins and end - once and for all - the life of this barbarian, and like Timothy McVeigh and others of his ilk, he, too, can ride the Highway to Hell, where...

The Texas jury that ruled the prescription drug Vioxx was responsible for the death of a 59-year-old jogger, Robert Ernst, may have been duped by a questionable scientific theory introduced by the plaintiff's attorney, Mark Lanier. The theoretical sequence of events concocted by him to link Vioxx to Ernst's death -- a blood clot leading to a heart attack and then to a fatal arrhythmia... -- was contrary to Ernst's autopsy.... The jury's verdict shows that our system is failing to provide justice reliably in medical cases. The remedy? Specialized state medical courts, where judges stop lawyers and hired-gun witnesses...

Washington -- A Prince George's County, Md., jury would not convict a man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death because a half-eaten hamburger, recovered from the crime scene and assumed to have been his, was not tested for DNA. In Washington, a jury deadlocked recently in the trial of a woman accused of stabbing another woman because fingerprints on the weapon did not belong to the suspect. An Alexandria, Va., jury acquitted a man on drug-possession charges in part because a box containing 60 rocks of crack cocaine that he was accused of tossing from his car during a...

Jim Robinson is the founder and operator of FreeRepublic.com. He posted this editorial on Terri Schiavo, Sunday April 3rd. I said it was wrong to kill her. That is my opinion. Nothing can change it. No list of "facts" will ever change it. And I put "facts" in quotes because most of the so-called "facts" posted here were in fact "opinion." Whether it was a poster's opinion, a reporter's opinion, her husband's opinion, a relative's opinion, a supporter's opinion, a detractor's opinion, a politician's opinion, a lawyer's opinion, a doctor's opinion, the president's opinion, the governor's opinion, or even...

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) -- Defense attorney Leslie Ballin called it the "jury pool from hell." The group of prospective jurors was summoned to listen to a case of Tennessee trailer park violence. Right after jury selection began last week, one man got up and left, announcing, "I'm on morphine and I'm higher than a kite." When the prosecutor asked if anyone had been convicted of a crime, a prospective juror said that he had been arrested and taken to a mental hospital after he almost shot his nephew. He said he was provoked because his nephew just would not come...

Thoughtful, intelligent and painfully aware of the gravity of their decision. If, as some have suggested, their guilty verdict restored faith in the legal system, then their action Monday might has restored faith in the jury system. Not because the jurors in the Scott Peterson trial chose death -- the merits of capital punishment in this case can and will continue to be debated -- but because of their comments at the post-verdict news conference and since. Agree or not, the four jurors who have spoken have clearly articulated why they decided Peterson was guilty and why he deserves to...

Cheney Outshines Edwards; North Korea Outshines Iraq Written by Isaiah Sterrett Thursday, October 07, 2004 This is what happens when you choose your running-mate solely on the basis of his superior use of hairspray. Several days ago I was taking advantage of Al Gore’s best and most well-known invention, the world-renowned ''Internet,'' when I came across a column he’d written for The New York Times. (Someday, when I serve as vice president under an impeached, disbarred miscreant and then run a miserable presidential campaign which I lose to a virtually unknown politician from a dusty state, I look forward to...

Let's face it trials are getting more and more lengthy and costly. But there is a clear and evident solution right infront of our eyes. The Media. Since they and their expert witnesses are presenting ALL of the evidence and trying cases on televsion it would seem that the proper thing to do is follow through with some slight modifications. We should be able to eliminate judges, lawyers and the jury right? Who enjoys serving on jury duty? Next continue in the same vein and set up a 900 Number for interested spectators to call and register their vote for...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Missouri Supreme Court has re-sentenced three death row inmates to life in prison because judges, not juries, had decided they deserved to be executed for their murders. The decisions affecting inmates Antonio Richardson, Andre Morrow and Keith Smith follow a ruling last year by the U.S. Supreme Court that the constitutional right to a trial by jury also applies to death sentences. In a June decision, the state Supreme Court said it would apply the federal decision retroactively to inmates on Missouri's death row. In three separate orders Tuesday, the court said juries in...

Lawyers have the only profession with a virtual cottage industry of mean-spirited jokes aimed against them. The lawyer jokes were created as a peaceful outlet to vent the extreme frustration many Americans feel about a system that's rigged to benefit lawyers at the expense of citizens. This is not a new sentiment. Back in the '50s, the Three Stooges had a skit in which they played lawyers. Their law firm was called Dewey, Cheatem and Howe. There's much support for this sentiment, and the corrupt legal system does indeed need a huge overhaul. Taxpayers don't know whether they're criminals or...

National solution is needed to stop 'litigation lottery' By Guest columnist Bill Frist is a Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee and a heart and lung transplant surgeon. September 1, 2002 The only level-one trauma center in Las Vegas shuts its doors. Twelve orthopedic surgeons at facilities near Philadelphia, Pa., resign their practice. Two-thirds of doctors in a small Mississippi city consider leaving for Louisiana. What is forcing our medical community to take such drastic measures? The "litigation lottery" - trial lawyers filing too many lawsuits with the hope of winning excessive awards. Medical malpractice litigation, which occurs when an injured...

Monday, 8 July, 2002, 12:53 GMT 13:53 UK Malaysian state passes Islamic law A state government in Malaysia has approved a bill to bring in Islamic criminal laws, including death by stoning for adultery and cutting off hands and feet for theft. The bill on hudud law - the Islamic penal code - was proposed by the government of Terengganu, a rural state in the north-east run by Islamic party PAS. Although our penalties are harsh and terrifying, we must realise that these offences and sins... are truly evil and despicable Abdul Hadi Awang, Terengganu's chief minister The bill...

YESH MEANS YES For the drunkard attempting to excuse himself from a traffic offence, Aristotle offers no more comfort than does the local constabulary. His Nicomachean Ethics argues that drunken offenders should not be let off on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but should have their penalties doubled ‘because the origin of the offence was in the man himself, as he might have avoided getting drunk, which was the cause of his not knowing what he was doing’. In other words, you may be oblivious to what you do while you are drunk, but you are responsible for getting...