Wrongful Termination???

What’s this? Politics affecting the Public Defender’s job?
Fired?
This is very, very bad.
I hope Nancy Forster is being fair and accurate, if so – there is something very, very wrong going on concerning JUSTICE! Or, is there going to be any Justice??

Mini-Tort Reform

As a consequence of the recent healthcare controversy, where we argue most strongly for Tort Reform, each state can do its part as well right now.
In my view, the first part to consider can actually be done right here in the General Assembly right now. And that is to make a consistent “Loser Pays” condition [...]

DNA Testing Takes Too Long

Baltimore prosecutors dropped charges against a suspect that was caught last year (May/June 2008) and had been in jail since then until being released this last July (according to 45 Fox News).
This was because it took so long for the DNA test results to verify that the suspect’s DNA did NOT match that of the [...]

Can we make it 19?

According to someone else – -
“The 18 states allowing for recall os(sic) Senators are as follows: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin.
Let’s roll. “
Reminder: the General Election next year will have the question “Do you want to hold a [...]

UPDATED: One More Thing

Early Voting.
Yup. That starts next year.
Sept 3 (Fri, 10am to 8pm) through Sep 9 (Thu 10am to 8pm – Last Day of Early Voting)
Oh – excludes Sunday.
Yet, voting also is set for Sep 14 (Tue) at the regular timeframe of 7am to 8pm.
And, we go back to using paper ballots and the OCR machines. (connect [...]

Term Limits: Just My Opinion

Do they work? Can they work? How best should they be determined?
The one that I figure most are familiar with is the two-term limit on the President’s Office.
So if that has been a good idea since FDR, how is it this is only for one major office??
Some would argue term limits aren’t needed, as voting [...]