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...Meanwhile, the steady revelation in scope of America’s systematic employment of “harsh interrogation techniques” (read: torture) has also drawn into relief the high costs of unchecked hegemony. In October, Michael Mukasey replaced the disgraced Alberto Gonzales as United States Attorney General, even as he could offer only equivocation on the subject of waterboarding—the precise opposite of the message American leadership must send to former friends and allies abroad...
...Osborne is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. His last-ditch plea to have his sentence commuted to life in prison was denied this morning by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, despite supportive letters from Georgia luminaries including former President Jimmy Carter and former deputy attorney general Larry Thompson - a Democrat and a Republican, respectively...
...Soon after, the flamboyant Johnny Mostiler, a local lawyer known for his abundant jewelry, handlebar moustache and overwhelming caseload, became his attorney. In those days, Mostiler represented all the indigent inmates in the county for a flat annual fee, hundreds and hundreds of felony cases. His clients often filed into court shackled to one another in rows to enter their guilty pleas, according to a profile in American Prospect magazine. So suffice it to say that he didn't have a lot of time for Osborne...
...mental health, drug abuse history and so on. But the law does not promise a first-rate defense. As a panel of judges from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said in denying Osborne's request for a new trial, "for a petitioner to show deficient performance" by an attorney, "he must establish that no competent counsel would have taken the action that his counsel did take." And how do you show that? "There are no absolute rules," the judges said vaguely...
...Vorenberg, who had worked for civil rights icons like Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ’48, met with black student leaders numerous times to discuss how diversity could proceed in Bell’s absence. but in this letter, he asserted that while he shared the BLSA’s “goals of racial and social justice,” there were clear differences of opinion on how these goals were to be achieved...