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Politics of crime (criminal politics) and prison legal issues. Associated with Prison Innocence Project.
By 'Major' Mori Goodbar, Esq.

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Last Entry: August 23, 2011 at 06:52:00

Not your Chevrolet's America

Posted on March 28, 2009
Chevy, "this is America"This past year, both the Republican and the Democratic Presidential candidates came out firmly for banning torture and closing the facility in Guantánamo Bay, where hundreds of prisoners have been held in years-long isolation. Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain, however, addressed the question of whether prolonged solitary confinement is torture...

Blawger's Baseball League

Posted on March 10, 2009
As I was perusing Blonde Justice's anonymous blog, (not trying to blow anybody's cover or anything like that, and I'll add that she links to Texas and other geographic places as well) I came across Baltimore Crime which I'll add to my blog roll, as if it's not overloaded already...

DNA Testing, Sec. 1983, Osborne in the Supreme Court

Posted on March 04, 2009

Citizens for Change

Posted on March 02, 2009

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Justice Center Chair Facing Removal in Texas CCA

Posted on March 01, 2009

Grants for Prisoner Reentry

Posted on March 01, 2009

Sex Offender Hysteria

Posted on February 28, 2009

Getting Down to Business

Posted on February 24, 2009
Reviewing some posts from Doc's place I could not help thinking that here is where we are (the greatest prison nation), and unfortunately, here is where we are going (same direction).

Just One More, Reduce Rates to 4% and Let's Everybody Do The Refi!

Posted on February 24, 2009
I forgot to mention this solution, as I see more talk about nationalizing big banks that are set to lose more money this year and become insolvent. The good news is, they are already insolvent, and always insolvent, according to their debt to equity ratios...

A Fourth Crazy Bad Mortgage Scenario

Posted on February 18, 2009
Moratorium on Foreclosures for one year, to be extended if necessary based on events on the ground.

Two Bad Mortgage Scenarios

Posted on February 15, 2009
Case Study in the Market for Homes with Bad MortgagesLink to BW "How Banks are Worsening the Forclosure Crisis"P 1:Home owners in bad mortgages don't deserve to be rescued.Then,a. let the banks foreclose, and the sooner the better. Homeowners take their earnings assuming they have jobs and rent until they reestablish credit to purchase another home...

Extension of Prosecutorial Immunities

Posted on January 28, 2009
When a civil rights lawsuit claims ?that a prosecutor?s management of a trial-related information system is responsible for a constitutional error at [a] particular trial, the prosecutor responsible for the system enjoys absolute immunity just as would the prosecutor who handled the particular trial itself...

Inaugeration: Off With the Medieval Currents

Posted on January 21, 2009
Bye Bye, and Hello...a historic moment rises; feel the ground swell of hope, fresh ideas, new thinking. Check out all the different views here, (Atlantic) and here (Roll Call), and here (The Nation), and here (Newsweek). Don't forget Fox, or the guys on the Right, no doubt making every effort to keep the "Big Tent Democrats" under control...

Bits of History

Posted on December 22, 2008
Speaking of the Fourteenth Century, which some historians have compared to our own Twentieth (that's the last one, not the 21st--this is yet to unfold), and of Religion and Chivalry, the dominant political idea of the ruling class, in A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman writes: King Arthur's knights adventured for the right against dragons, enchanters, and wicked men, establishing order in a wild

Wash, Rinse, Repeat..., Rinse, Repeat ...., .....

Posted on December 18, 2008
More dots on the emerging financial meltdown from NYT. Now, with the Madof debacle, I'm tempted to ask, "Where were the regulators" -- Oversight is so passe?

Sosen Newsletter

Posted on December 16, 2008
Here's a link to Sosen's inaugeral newsletter. They finally got it together. Hurrah! Here is a reminder that my very own newsletter published issue number 16 last month. It is at this link!

Habeas and the Guantanomo Bay Prisoner Cases

Posted on December 15, 2008
Thanks to Scotusblog, at this link is a Supreme Court Order issued today remanding the case of four Britons released from Guantanomo, who then sued United States Military officials for misconduct in the treatment, allegedly torture. That means the opinion of the DC Circuit Court must be reconsidered in light of the Supreme Court Opinion in the case of Boumedienne, issued more recently this year.

A Petition for Justice

Posted on December 13, 2008
Here, at this link, read about the tragedy that is Ricky's life, or non-life. He's 19. She's 16, was 13 when, but lied and said she was about his age. Now, Ricky lives with the consequences. When will the madness end?

Is it Time to End Prohibition (Again)?

Posted on December 13, 2008
At this link is a post at Prof. Berman's Sentencing Law blog. The debate in the comments is interesting and well worth reading. I agree with those who are pushing to end the Modern Era of Prohibition we are living with today. For all the reasons Zack lists in the comments, I agree...

Good Reference Commentary

Posted on December 11, 2008
Letsgetreal has posted comments on my last post concerning the Adam Walsh Act and related concerns.

145 Million At Stake in Frederick County, Maryland, Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on December 11, 2008
Here is a link to an opinion in which United States District Judge Quarles, of Maryland's US District Court, discusses breach, and in particular the concepts of gross negligence and malfeasance in a contract context. If past is prologue, the opinion could shed light into what could happen in a case pending before the same Judge Quarles...

Don't want to come into contact with a registered sex offender?

Posted on December 06, 2008
Use the website to locate them more easily. But don't use the sidewalks, they don't wear the yellow stars, or the red A, just yet. At the same time, more and more serious studies are showing that registration such as this is a waste of time and money, tax payer money, to be more precise...

Clearly Established Law Not Always Clear

Posted on November 27, 2008
Here is a petition to watch, with links to the opinion below, petition for cert and reply concerning the recent Cunningham decision in the Court. The appellate court held Cunningham did not establish new law, following Blakely, making defendant eligible for habeas relief under 2254...

New Commerce Clause SORNA piece

Posted on November 25, 2008
Here is Cory Young, Associate Professor of Law at Marshall, posting in his Blog, Sex Crimes: I've posted a draft of a shorter article of mine that will be out soon in the Federal Sentencing Reporter. The article builds upon the Commerce Clause discussion in my other forthcoming article, One of These Laws is not Like the Others: Why the Federal Sex Offender Registration and

Soros on the Crisis

Posted on November 25, 2008
At this link to the NYRB, read George Soros's take on what went wrong in the financial system.

Curious Registry Stuff: Real Offender is the Law

Posted on November 22, 2008
Here is the intro to this good piece (ht, Doc), called "Real Offender," In its relentless efforts to expel Wendy Whitaker from her Columbia County home, the state of Georgia has crossed the line from protector to persecutor of its citizens. The state isn?t inciting torch-wielding mobs to chase Whitaker from her home 20 miles west of Augusta...

Punitive, or Not Punitive to Register

Posted on November 21, 2008
A very unusual ruling, at the cusp of right to jury trial and constitutional issue of whether a requirement to register as a sex offender is or is not punitive, for a person not convicted of a misdemeanor sex offense but required to register is available at this link, made available by the one and only Doc Berman.

Cheney, Gonzalez indicted

Posted on November 19, 2008
Read up on the indictments issued against Cheney and Gonzalez at the link (wp).

Effective Assistance of Counsel

Posted on November 15, 2008
Here at this link is an article one kind reader called attention to. Called Effective Assistance of Counsel and Consequences of Guilty Pleas (2002), it represents slow if steady progress in the study of criminal law in general, and one of the pillars thereof, the right to a lawyer for your defense, which often means nothing more than advice to take a plea if you don't want to go to jail for a

Bank Loots Treasury: Taxpayer Loses!

Posted on November 13, 2008
Today I heard that certain people on Wall Street were getting bonuses of 13 point something BILLION for the year!!! That was after the company they worked for had accepted 10 BILLION from the Tarp (I think that's what Hank called it) the 'GOVERNMENT BAILOUT'...

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