How American Justice Functions
By Glenn Greenwald
America is plagued by a two-tiered justice system in which political and financial elites enjoy virtually absolute immunity for even the most egregious of crimes, while ordinary Americans (and especially fully stigmatized ones like Padilla) are subject with few defenses to the world s largest and one of its most merciless systems of punishment.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29167.htm
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Losing liberty for security with the Padilla case
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger
09/20/11
The Jose Padilla case is back in the news. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the 17-year sentence handed down by the presiding district judge was too lenient. The court has ordered the case remanded to the judge with instructions to consider a much higher sentence...
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-09-20.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=American+justice
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+elite
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jose+Padilla
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
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America is plagued by a two-tiered justice system in which political and financial elites enjoy virtually absolute immunity for even the most egregious of crimes, while ordinary Americans (and especially fully stigmatized ones like Padilla) are subject with few defenses to the world s largest and one of its most merciless systems of punishment.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29167.htm
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Losing liberty for security with the Padilla case
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger
09/20/11
The Jose Padilla case is back in the news. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the 17-year sentence handed down by the presiding district judge was too lenient. The court has ordered the case remanded to the judge with instructions to consider a much higher sentence...
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-09-20.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=American+justice
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+elite
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jose+Padilla
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
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