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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 07:32 AM EST |
Two remarkable legal proceedings are currently
wending their way
through the federal criminal courts. The
cases involve very different parties:
Conrad Black, one of
the most consequential public intellectuals and
businessmen
of our era, and James “Whitey” Bulger, a Boston-based
alleged
racketeer and serial murderer. But both cases
highlight some of the same
profound problems with the way
federal prosecutorial business is done these
days.
In both cases, as in countless others, the feds have used
certain
techniques that virtually assure convictions of both
the innocent and the
guilty, the wealthy and the poor, the
violent drug dealer and the white collar
defendant,
indifferent to the niceties of “due process of law,”
particularly
the right to effective assistance of legal
counsel. In order to prevent a
defendant from retaining a
defense team of his choice, federal prosecutors will
first
freeze his assets, even though a jury has yet to find them
to have been
illegally obtained. They then bring
prosecutions of almost unimaginable
complexity, assuring
that the financially hobbled defendant’s diminished legal
team (or, as is often the case, his court-appointed lawyer)
will be too
overwhelmed to mount an adequate
defense.
Harvey Silverglate,
Forbes
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom received the same treatment
in
New Zealand didn't he? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Tim on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 09:47 AM EST |
This has just turned up on /. -
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 12:45 PM EST |
See:-
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/01/03/report-new-sony-patent-blocks-second-hand-
games
In some jurisdictions the courts have already held that the vendor has no
control over second hand sales. So, if Sony is attempting to circumvent a legal
right they are in trouble.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 02:21 PM EST |
Dear Men,
Have you noticed that a lot of the time it just
seems like, gosh, there are a lot of dudes speaking at this conference? Perhaps
you've been on a panel and you've looked around and seen XY after XY after XY.
Maybe you've thought, it's too bad the organizers didn't think to balance this
out a bit more and ask some women to speak too.
I love that this has
bothered you. And I am happy to tell you about a simple step you can take to
help change this: Refuse to speak on all male-panels. Just say
no.
Rebecca J.
Rosen, The Atlantic[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 08:18 PM EST |
"researchers at Exodus Intelligence reported today .. new
exploit beat a fully
patched Windows system
running IE 8" link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: vadim on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 04:15 AM EST |
Found this thread on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/15yx0a/after_microsoft_
complains_that_google_is_blocking/
http://wmpoweruser.com/now-google-is-blocking-windows-phones-
from-accessing-maps-google-com/
Can somebody check the veracity of it please? Seem very un Google Like
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- All spin - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 02:17 PM EST
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