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Nancy Grace is mad as hell, and she's not going to take it anymore. In case you think the former Atlanta prosecutor turned CNN and Court TV personality gets out all of her anger on TV, check out her fiery new book, Objection! How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System (Hyperion). Galley Girl caught up with her by phone in the CNN makeup room, waiting to do her show. Grace is nothing if not precise, answering questions in her twangy Southern accent as though she were on the witness...
Jennifer Granholm has been a Democratic Party star ever since she was elected Michigan's Governor in 2002. A cerebral centrist and former prosecutor with TV-ready glamour, Granholm coasted through her first two years in office with lofty approval ratings. But now the Governor, already hurt by Michigan's persistent economic woes, is facing a politically perilous decision: whether to grant clemency to a woman whose 1993 murder conviction in state court was later declared "a travesty" by a federal judge...
...speculation that politics was behind the move is "exactly wrong," a career Justice Department prosecutor involved in the case told TIME. Government attorneys were caught off guard in February by a circuit-court ruling that severely limited the payout they could seek from Big Tobacco, said Justice Department officials. Under the racketeering statutes cited in the case, the government could not recommend a penalty for any past wrongdoing and instead was restricted to proposals geared to prevent and restrain future action. Prosecutors scrambled to adjust their case. The solution, based on recommendations by longtime Justice lawyers...
...lion on the Serengeti doesn't go after the strongest antelope. The predator goes after the weakest." RONALD ZONEN, prosecutor in the Michael Jackson trial, in his final summation to the jury deciding whether the pop singer is guilty of child molestation
...Ching and the CASS academics were not the only detainees to make headlines. Police passed to the prosecutor's office last week the investigation into Zhao Yan, a Beijing researcher for the New York Times who has been held incommunicado since September. Zhao is under investigation for both fraud and leaking state secrets, but his lawyer has not yet seen details of the police reports. In April, Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets to foreign media. (What was leaked and to whom has not been made public?those details...