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...future is here, and yet we’re still waiting for it. Instead of rocket packs, we’re stuck with buses and subways. Instead of x-ray goggles, we have to settle for contact lenses. Technology hasn’t solved our problems—if anything, it’s made them worse. Just look at global warming...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Riding the Wave of the Future | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...charges in 2006 became one of the most publicly debated cases to emerge from eight years of controversy at the Bush Justice Department. Now new documents highlight alleged misconduct by the Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney and other prosecutors in the case, including what appears to be extensive and unusual contact between the prosecution and the jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Allegations of Misconduct in Alabama Governor Case | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...Last year Grimes gave the DOJ additional e-mails detailing previously undisclosed contact between prosecutors and members of the Siegelman jury. In nine days of deliberation, jurors twice told the judge they were deadlocked and could not reach a decision. After the panel finally delivered a conviction, allegations emerged that jurors had discussed the case in e-mails among themselves and downloaded Internet material - serious breaches that could have invalidated the verdict. But the trial judge ruled that the jurors' alleged misconduct was harmless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Allegations of Misconduct in Alabama Governor Case | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...What's more, when prosecutors conducted their own investigation of suspected improper conduct by jurors after the trial, two of them were interviewed, despite instructions from the judge that no contact with jurors should occur without his permission. Those interviews were not publicly disclosed until nearly two years later, when the head of the DOJ's criminal division belatedly wrote all parties, including the appeals court in Atlanta, to inform them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Allegations of Misconduct in Alabama Governor Case | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...letter to Mukasey, Conyers calls this additional juror contact "important information," noting, "It is startling to see such repeated instances of federal prosecutors failing to keep the defense apprised of key developments in an active criminal case." He might have added that the judge was, in some instances, apparently not in on the secret either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Allegations of Misconduct in Alabama Governor Case | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

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