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29 April 2010

Wayne B. Wheeler: The Man Who Turned Off the Taps, on the prohibition, and
Too weird for the Wire, on the unusual legal defenses of Baltimore drug dealers.

post by: NucleophilicAttack at: 11:16 | 3 comments

Now I know I've seen that second one before, either here or mefi. It's interesting.

posted by gaspode 29 April | 11:29

in 2005, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was aggressively seeking death sentences. In fact, the Justice Department was even retrying cases in order to win death penalties for crimes like the Spence murder, for which Shawn Gardner was already serving life without parole.

Uh... WHAT? Maybe I'm just a naive, bleeding-heart liberal but I thought we had laws against double jeopardy.

posted by muddgirl 29 April | 12:33

That was supposed to be a block quote from the second link. Whoops.

posted by muddgirl 29 April | 12:34

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