What failures of our institutions of justice justify abandoning civic discourse and resorting to violent action to overthrow the powers that be? That question consumed the founders of our nation. That question was not on the minds of most of…
Posts tagged as “justice”
Last weekend I posted on attorney Brandon Taliaferro's upcoming appearance before the South Dakota Supreme Court to ask that bogus criminal charges be expunged from his record. John Hult does good work this weekend explaining the many ways in which…
On October 8, attorney Brandon Taliaferro will ask the South Dakota Supreme Court to expunge two criminal charges from his record. Attorney General Marty Jackley will peevishly argue that Taliaferro should continue to be punished for crimes he did not…
Governor Dennis Daugaard wants you to believe that he came up with a really great idea with his 2013 criminal justice reform omnibus bill. But a report last week from John Hult suggests that counties were already getting on top…
An Orange County, California, judge has ruled the state's death penalty unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney says California's death penalty inflicts cruel and unusual punishment, not because state-sanctioned killing of captive convicts is abhorrent, but because California…
This is Debbie Martines. She died in 1994 when a man who had abused her for years came home drunk and killed her in front of her two children. Martines was pregnant when she died. This is Joaquin Jack Ramos.…
There are eager readers, and there are really eager readers. A friend of the blog cogitates on the GOED/EB-5/NBP scandal and decides to place the affair in recent historical context. In this essay, our friend reminds us that South Dakota…
Rep. Rev. Steve Hickey is cruising for a bruising in a GOP primary...or maybe for the title of occasional conscience of the South Dakota Republican Party. He's going John Dunbar on us and advocating for the release of American Indian…