2. Apple rests. The judge still isn't happy. One quote: “I want to see papers, I don’t trust what any lawyer tells me in this courtroom.” Yikes.
3. DOJ finally agrees to free innocent prisoners. Brad Heath of USA Today has the scoop:
The department confirmed Monday that it had
instructed its lawyers to abandon legal objections that could have
blocked — or at least delayed — the inmates from being set free. In a court filing 
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the department said it had "reconsidered its position," and that it
would drop its legal arguments "in the interests of justice."
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the department said it had "reconsidered its position," and that it
would drop its legal arguments "in the interests of justice."
The shift follows a USA TODAY investigation
in June that identified more than 60 people who were imprisoned for
something an appeals court later determined was not a federal crime. The
investigation found that the Justice Department had done almost nothing
to identify those prisoners — many of whom did not know they were
innocent — and had argued in court that the men were innocent but should
remain imprisoned anyway.
Neither
Justice Department lawyers nor defense attorneys would speculate
Monday how many innocent prisoners eventually might be released. Some
who were convicted of other crimes might receive shorter sentences;
others might be tried for different offenses.
Chris Brook, the legal director of the ACLU of North Carolina,
called the move "an encouraging first step," but said "much more has to
be done for these wrongly incarcerated individuals." He said the
department still had not offered to identify prisoners who were sent to
prison for something that turned out not to be a federal crime.
She was featured in the famous drug ballad titled “The Queen of the Queens,” sung by a band called Los Tucanes de Tijuana. One line in the narcocorrido captured her essence: “The more beautiful the rose, the sharper the thorns.”
Her name: Sandra Avila Beltrán. The raven-haired 51-year-old — at least that’s what her arrest form says her age is — will appear in Miami federal court Tuesday for her arraignment and bond hearing. She was extradited last week from Mexico, where she had been arrested in 2007, on charges of conspiring to smuggle loads of cocaine into the United States more than a decade ago.
“She is very Cleopatra-ish, like the Queen of the Nile,” said Miami criminal defense attorney Lilly Ann Sanchez, who represented two other defendants in the same case. “She was able to maneuver her way in a man’s world and use the fact that she was a woman to her advantage in more ways than one.”
Best narcocorrido is Black and Blue from Breaking Bad.
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