Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski
told 60 Minutes that about 1% or over 20,000 innocent people are in federal prison. "That's a lot of people!" The number is almost definitely higher and yet many federal judges aren't doing as much as Kozinski to check the executive. And boy do we need a strong judiciary right now with AG Sessions.
We should have our U.S. Attorney nominee this week. It will be interesting to see if that person is willing to stand up to Trump/Sessions or whether they will go back to the old ways where there is limited discovery, no exhibit lists, etc. etc.
It appears that in the Ft. Lauderdale shooting case that the prosecution is handing over all of the evidence.
From Paula McMahon:
Prosecutors handling the case against a man accused of
fatally shooting five people and wounding six others at Fort
Lauderdale’s international airport are still turning over massive
amounts of evidence to the defense, they said in court on Friday.
In
the coming weeks, they plan to hand over electronic evidence from
computers and phones used by Esteban Santiago before the Jan. 6 mass
shooting.
Both sides said they are still interviewing numerous
potential witnesses who may have information about the shooting and
Santiago’s state of mind.
The defense team, from the
Federal Public Defender’s office, said Santiago, 27, is continuing to
take medication for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. They
said his condition appears to have stabilized and he remains legally
competent to stand trial.
It also appears that Haitian coup leader Guy Philippe will plead guilty today.