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At the time, it seemed to many people like a good idea. In the wake of several brutal murders by former convicts, California enacted the toughest "three strikes" law in the nation. Any criminal with a serious or violent prior felony would automatically have his sentence doubled for a second...
Last week the California supreme court--a conservative panel with six Republicans and one Democrat--called time out. The case before them was that of Jose Romero, a San Diego drug abuser whom superior court judge William Mudd sentenced to six years for possession of 13 g of cocaine. Romero...
For example, in some courses, professors and students will blithely speak about the great achievements of the civil rights movement and will claim, without a hint of irony, that heroes like Martin Luther King Jr. pretty much cured white America's racism. Yet, even the long-suffering King (everyone's...
Notions about the banality of evil are severely tested by Hasselbach and his former comrades. A repulsively fascinating character named "Bendix" digs up World War II battlefields so that he can commune with the skeletons of fallen German soldiers. Clerks and metal workers by day turn into street brawlers and...
The injustice of the trial has come under attack by the U.S. State Department, human-rights organizations, Berenson's lawyers and her family's legal adviser, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Yet Berenson herself may have undercut her defenders at a defiant press conference three days before the sentencing...