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==='''Stop-and-Frisk "For Being a F***ing Mutt!"'''===
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==='''Oregon Supreme Court Candidates on Think Out Loud'''===
  
Last week, the Nation posted a recording of NYPD stopping and harassing a young teenager. This is a rare glimpse for the non-harassed and non-defense-attorneys public:
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"The two candidates for a seat on Oregon's Supreme Court sparred over their experience and endorsements Friday.
  
"On June 3, 2011, three plainclothes New York City Police officers stopped a Harlem teenager named Alvin and two of the officers questioned and frisked him while the third remained in their unmarked car. Alvin secretly captured the interaction on his cell phone, and the resulting audio is one of the only known recordings of stop-and-frisk in action.
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Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Richard Baldwin and Portland attorney Nena Cook faced off on OPB's Think Out Loud.
  
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Baldwin emphasized his experience as both a judge and private practice attorney.
  
Early in the stop, one of the officers asks, 'You want me to smack you?' When Alvin asks why he is being threatened with arrest, the other officer responds, 'For being a f***ing mutt.' Later in the stop, while holding Alvin's arm behind his back, the first officer says, "Dude, I'm gonna break your f***in' arm, then I'm gonna punch you in the f***in' face.' "
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"I went to law school to become a civil rights lawyer. I started Multnomah's County's first Mental health court three years ago, presided over drug courts as well. So I've been in the trenches now for a total of 35 years," Baldwin said.
  
See the video here:
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Baldwin's campaign website says he has the endorsement of a dozen current and former appeals and supreme court justices.
  
''[http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt' ][VIDEO] ''by Ross Tuttle and Erin Shneider - The Nation, Oct. 8, 2012.
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Nena Cook is younger, and while she has not been hired as a judge, for the last five year's she's volunteered as a pro tem judge in Multnomah County.
  
===City Attorney Releases Drafts of Lt. King's Conclusions as to Whether Frashour Acted as Trained===
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...Cook's website says she has endorsements from 27 district attorneys from counties across the state."
  
"In four drafts written from May 12, 2010 through June 15, 2010, King found Officer Ron Frashour acted as trained.
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- "[http://www.opb.org/news/article/supreme-cuort-candidaates-tout-experience/ Supreme Court Candidates Tout Experience]," Think Out Loud, OPB, Oct 19, 2012.
  
In each of those drafts, King, then a lieutenant in the training division, highlighted his conclusions on Frashour's use of deadly force by writing in bold-face, capital letters: "THIS WAS CONSISTANT WITH TRAINING."
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==='''Oregon Supreme Court to Hear Gary Haugen Case in March'''===
  
On June 20, 2010, King seemed to waver. He said it was up to the chief and police commissioner to decide if Frashour acted as trained. King added that, in his opinion, Frashour's actions were consistent with his training. Yet King also condemned the bureau's training as not stressing "de-escalation" or flexibility.
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"The Oregon Supreme Court has agreed to hear Gov. John Kitzhaber's appeal of Gary Haugen's refusal to accept a reprieve of a death sentence.
  
The next day, June 21, 2010, King veered far from his prior drafts' findings, concluding for the first time Frashour did not act as trained. King also didn't mention anything about deficiencies in bureau training."
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Oral arguments are scheduled at 10:30 a.m. March 14 at the University of Oregon law school. . .
  
<div>- [http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/10/portland_police_training_revie.html ''Portland police training review drafts of Frashour shooting show how lieutenant's analysis changed '']
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The justices will hear arguments on a single point: Whether someone such as Haugen must accept a reprieve offered by the governor under the Oregon Constitution for it to be effective."
by Maxine Bernstein - The Oregonian, Oct 15, 2012.</div><div></div>
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===Juveniles in Solitary Confinement===
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- "[http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20121022/UPDATE/121022044/Oregon-Supreme-Court-hear-Haugen-case-appeal?odyssey=nav%7Chead Oregon Supreme Court to Hear Haugen Case]" by Peter Wong, Statesmen Journal, Oct 22, 2012.
  
<div>"Many states have adopted various protective strategies, under which young inmates are separated from adults who would otherwise prey on them. One of these strategies is to segregate young people in solitary confinement - a soul-killing punishment that condemns young people to spend weeks or even months locked up alone in small cells for up to 23 hours a day, cut off from all contact with other prisoners.
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==='''Court Denies Detainees' Right to Habeas '''for Afghanistan Detainees===
  
[http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/us1012ForUpload.pdf A new study issued earlier this month] by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union shows the degree to which extended isolation - which is hard going for mature adults - can easily lead to mental illness and other damage among emotionally immature young people. The report, [http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/us1012ForUpload.pdf Growing Up Locked Down], is based on interviews and correspondence in 2011 and 2012 with more than 125 individuals who were sent to jail or prison in 20 states while under the age of 18."
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"WASHINGTON - A judge on Friday rejected a request for hearings from three men imprisoned by the United States military for nearly a decade in <span class="meta-loc">Afghanistan</span> without trials. The judge ruled that new information was not sufficient to undermine a previous appeals court ruling against them.
  
[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/opinion/adolescents-in-grown-up-jails.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0 - ''Adolescents in Grown-Up Jails'' (Editorial) - The New York Times, October 15, 2012]
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The [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/472749-bates-ruling-maqaleh.html ruling] by Judge John D. Bates was a victory for the Obama administration and a blow to efforts to extend to detainees at the Parwan detention complex at <span class="meta-classifier">Bagram</span> Air Base, north of Kabul, the same <span class="meta-classifier">habeas corpus</span> rights that the Supreme Court has granted to similar prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
  
===Tennessee Death Row Inmate's Conviction Overturned===
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The men are two Yemenis and a Tunisian who say they were captured outside Afghanistan and are being held by mistake. They want a judge to review the evidence and order their release."
  
"A Tennessee judge on Friday overturned the conviction and death sentence of a man who has spent 14 years on death row over the killing of an ex-girlfriend whose body was never found.
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"[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/us/judge-denies-hearing-request-from-3-afghanistan-detainees.html?_r=0 Judge Denies Hearing Request From 3 Afghanistan Detainees]," by Charlie Savage, NYT, Oct 19, 2012.
 
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A USA TODAY investigation last year showed that Memphis prosecutors responsible for the case never told the man, Michael Dale Rimmer, or his lawyers, about an eyewitness who had told the police that two different men were inside the office around the time she disappeared, and that both had blood on their hands. One of the men that the witness identified was already wanted in connection with a stabbing.
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The case is the latest black eye for prosecutors in Memphis, who have been faulted repeatedly for failing to disclose evidence that could be helpful to defendants."
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[http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/12/tennessee-death-sentence-overturned/1630757/ ''Tennessee death-row inmate's conviction overturned ''
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by Brad Heath - USA Today, Oct 12, 2012.]
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Revision as of 17:32, December 21, 2012

Oregon Supreme Court Candidates on Think Out Loud

"The two candidates for a seat on Oregon's Supreme Court sparred over their experience and endorsements Friday.

Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Richard Baldwin and Portland attorney Nena Cook faced off on OPB's Think Out Loud.

Baldwin emphasized his experience as both a judge and private practice attorney.

"I went to law school to become a civil rights lawyer. I started Multnomah's County's first Mental health court three years ago, presided over drug courts as well. So I've been in the trenches now for a total of 35 years," Baldwin said.

Baldwin's campaign website says he has the endorsement of a dozen current and former appeals and supreme court justices.

Nena Cook is younger, and while she has not been hired as a judge, for the last five year's she's volunteered as a pro tem judge in Multnomah County.

...Cook's website says she has endorsements from 27 district attorneys from counties across the state."

- "Supreme Court Candidates Tout Experience," Think Out Loud, OPB, Oct 19, 2012.

Oregon Supreme Court to Hear Gary Haugen Case in March

"The Oregon Supreme Court has agreed to hear Gov. John Kitzhaber's appeal of Gary Haugen's refusal to accept a reprieve of a death sentence.

Oral arguments are scheduled at 10:30 a.m. March 14 at the University of Oregon law school. . .

The justices will hear arguments on a single point: Whether someone such as Haugen must accept a reprieve offered by the governor under the Oregon Constitution for it to be effective."

- "Oregon Supreme Court to Hear Haugen Case" by Peter Wong, Statesmen Journal, Oct 22, 2012.

Court Denies Detainees' Right to Habeas for Afghanistan Detainees

"WASHINGTON - A judge on Friday rejected a request for hearings from three men imprisoned by the United States military for nearly a decade in Afghanistan without trials. The judge ruled that new information was not sufficient to undermine a previous appeals court ruling against them.

The ruling by Judge John D. Bates was a victory for the Obama administration and a blow to efforts to extend to detainees at the Parwan detention complex at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, the same habeas corpus rights that the Supreme Court has granted to similar prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The men are two Yemenis and a Tunisian who say they were captured outside Afghanistan and are being held by mistake. They want a judge to review the evidence and order their release."

"Judge Denies Hearing Request From 3 Afghanistan Detainees," by Charlie Savage, NYT, Oct 19, 2012.