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...private meetings and public statements, they told Moreno-Ocampo that he would be responsible for a bloodbath. "My answer was: Today [the people of Darfur] are being killed. Today they are being destroyed and have no hope," Moreno-Ocampo told me a few days before he announced his indictment. "Maybe you can be part of the cover-up. The prosecutor cannot be part of the cover." How Moreno-Ocampo won the authority to indict a sitting President of a sovereign country is an epic of justice vs. realpolitik, of a determined prosecutor's battle against "we-know-better" diplomacy...
...Texas Hero or Killer? On June 30, a Houston-area grand jury declined to indict Joe Horn after he fatally shot two burglars in the back as they fled his neighbor's house, an episode captured in a chilling recording of a 911 call between Horn and a police dispatcher. The case tested Texas' so-called castle-doctrine law--which states that people threatened in their home have a right to use deadly force--and triggered accusations of vigilantism and ethnic bias in the criminal-justice system. Horn, who expressed remorse over the killings, is white, while the victims were...
Grand juries in Texas are sealed affairs, so no one really knows what goes on in their deliberations. But on Monday, a Harris County grand jury refused to indict Horn for any crimes related to the November 2007 shooting. It's the kind of decision that makes you wonder if the jurors themselves were chanting "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" during deliberations. The decision was celebrated by Horn's defenders, of course. More than anything, though, it was called a victory for the Castle Doctrine...
...leaving both boys with even more injuries. The car accident wasn't the old man's fault; the shooting most definitely was. County law-enforcement officials initially declined to press charges, citing the Castle Doctrine. Ultimately, they recommended the case to a grand jury, which did, in fact, indict...
...hold on. Don’t indict me for hating America’s favorite pastime. This Red Sox loathing has nothing to do with baseball hate. And no, I do not hail from the land of the Yankees. Why then, you ask, do I find my college town’s team insufferable...