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Florida Criminal Defense Lawyers review an appellate court opinion regarding the Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution and numerous convictions.

incentivized worthless TSA agents waste time/money

This week on NPR's This American Life:
Michael May tells the story of Barry Cooper, a former crooked narcotics cop who has turned his interest elsewhere... to busting crooked narcotics cops. But after Cooper and a rich benefactor team up to set a trap for the police, Barry's plans are put in jeopardy- including his dream of creating a reality show called "Kop Busters."

Norman Borlaug, the greatest, human ever, died at the age of 95 of lymphoma.

A French TV documentary features people in a spoof game show administering what they are told are near lethal electric shocks to rival contestants. Those taking part are told to pull levers to inflict shocks - increasing in voltage - upon their opponents. Although unaware that the contestants were actors and there was no electrical current, 82% of participants in the Game of Death agreed to pull the lever.

One day last year, Selectman Tracy Watson received a school letter about her son Cameron. It wasn't about his grades or his behavior. It was to inform her and her husband that Cameron was classified as "obese." "Honestly, I laughed," Watson said. The letter -- part of a state initiative to monitor children's Body Mass Index -- explained BMI standards and encouraged her and her husband to contact their pediatrician. But the letters have many in town crying foul and have ignited a debate over the government's role in children's health.

The Fronline Faith Project sends mp3 players to the U.S. troops in the war. The mp3 players have Catholic Mass, homilies, ect, al. Many of the troops can not get to a priest or attend mass (because they are killing people but that is beside the point). I support that because I'm Catholic and this has nothing to do with the government.

What I would love to see is a project to send mp3 players with FTL to the troops.

Investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department will now be able to examine some audio tapes that they say could link Charles Manson followers to other murders. A bankruptcy judge has released hours of recorded conversations Manson’s right-hand man Tex Watson had with his attorney in 1969. "The LAPD has information that Mr. Watson discussed additional unsolved murders committed by followers of Charles Manson," said a letter signed by Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and Lt. Yana Horvatich, acting commanding officer of the robbery-homicide division.

The Justice Department has opened full criminal investigations of the deaths in CIA custody of two detainees, including one who perished at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, U.S. officials said Thursday.The decision, announced by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., means continued legal jeopardy for several CIA operatives but at the same time closes the book on inquiries that potentially threatened many others. A federal prosecutor reviewed 101 cases in which agency officers and contractors interrogated suspected terrorists during years of military action after the Sept.