- A criminal defendant detained pretrial can expect to be billed higher fees from potential private criminal defense lawyers than if they are not detained and are free to travel to the lawyers office, rather than requiring a lawyer's time-consuming task of driving to the jail around established visiting hours, clearing security, sometimes waiting for a free visiting booth, and waiting to meet with the client. [read post]

  --> Clare Booth Luce: Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. [read post]

Now that Hood has emerged from the phone booth wearing a cape with a big S emblazoned on his chest, let's take a look at some other statements by Hood on this matter, some that were made under oath. [read post]

She chose forgiveness instead, and launched a crusade to end capital punishmentBy Kathleen WheatonOn a Saturday morning in February, Vicki Schieber, a motherly woman of 62 with soft brown eyes, wavy brown hair and a gentle Midwestern voice, drives from her home in Chevy Chase to Baltimore to visit a death-row inmate.At the prison, a guard leads her down narrow cement corridors, steel-barred doors automatically slide open and then clatter shut behind her.The visiting room is scarcely wider… [read post]