The jury was picked in a morning and both sides already have given opening statements. If this was state court, it may have taken a week to pick a jury in a murder case. Not in federal court....
Here's Vanessa Blum and Curt Anderson on openings and Luisa Yanez on jury selection.
Jeffrey Tsai opened for the government.
Tony Natale for defendant Guillermo Zarabozo.
Co-defendant Kirby Archer, who pleaded guilty to life in prison, is not expected to testify for the government. The defense has painted Archer as the criminal and stated in openings that Zarabozo was also a victim.
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From the NY Times:
"WASHINGTON — Judges around the world have long looked to the decisions of the United States Supreme Court for guidance, citing and often following them in hundreds of their own rulings since the Second World War.
But now American legal influence is waning. Even as a debate continues in the court over whether its decisions should ever cite foreign law, a diminishing number of foreign courts seem to pay attention to the writings of American justices.
“One of our great exports used to be constitutional law,” said Anne-Marie Slaughter, the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. “We are losing one of the greatest bully pulpits we have ever had....."
Well dear readers -- why do you think it is?
Political appointees more intent on promoting their benefactor's interests than justice?
Or,
The development of respectable courts in foreign countries?
Or,
A combination of both?
Or maybe they have decided to afford us as much respect as we afford them...none.
Remember, you have to give respect in order to receive it.
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