Tuesday, April 19, 2011

11-04-20 Welcome France! // Bienvenido Francia! // \欢迎法国！

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11-04-18 Los Angeles: Prisoner beaten so badly his attorney could not recognize him // Los Angeles: prisionero golpeado con tal violencia que su abogado no pudo reconocerlo // 洛杉矶：囚犯殴打他的律师如此糟糕无法认出他来

latimes.com

Attorney barred from photographing man's injuries in alleged jail beating

Defense attorney says a beating by deputies was so severe that he couldn't recognize his client. Officials say the inmate was dangerous and was being kept in an area where civilians and cameras are banned.

By Jack Leonard and Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times
April 18, 2011
Despite a judge's order, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has refused to allow an attorney to take photographs of a client he said was beaten so badly by jail deputies that he was unrecognizable.
Deputy Public Defender John F. Montoya said the inmate, Federico Bustos, suffered severe bruising two months ago to his face, stomach, chest, right arm, both legs and feet. Bustos' left eye was so swollen that Montoya said he initially feared his client had lost the eye.
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11-04-17 You get the Judge You Pay For! // Usted consigue el juez que usted paga! // 你得到法官您支付！

OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS

You Get the Judges You Pay For

By ERWIN CHEMERINSKY and JAMES J. SAMPLE
Published: April 17, 2011
LEGAL elites must come to terms with a reality driven by the grass-roots electorate: judicial elections are here to stay. Given this reality, we should focus on balancing important First Amendment rights to financially support campaigns with due process concerns about fair trials.
An ugly, expensive campaign for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is but the latest example of what is now common in judicial elections: millions of dollars in misleading television ads, subsidized by lobbies that have cases before the bench.
In 39 states, at least some judges are elected. Voters rarely know much, if anything, about the candidates, making illusory the democratic benefits of such elections. Ideally, judges should decide cases based on the law, not to please the voters. But, as Justice Otto Kaus of the California Supreme Court once remarked about the effect of politics on judges’ decisions: “You cannot forget the fact that you have a crocodile in your bathtub. You keep wondering whether you’re letting yourself be influenced, and you do not know.”
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