Criminal Injustice System

Running out of real negative news about Democrats, Fox News cuts and pastes video clips to invent things to criticize. This amusing compilation of side-by-side takes sets the record straight.
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By Jason Leopold In 1983, the Justice Department prosecuted a Texas sheriff and three of his deputies for waterboarding prisoners to get them to confess to crimes. The deputies were sentenced to four years in prison and Parker pleaded guilty to extortion and federal civil rights violations and received a 10-year sentence. Go to...
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The Fark headline: “State provides a self-medicating morphine pump for inmate in a wheelchair with MS who was sentenced to 25 years for illegally possessing 100 Percocets that he was using to self-medicate his chronic pain.” Fortunately, it seems that his clemency petition is now on the fast-track. The full story.
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The FBI repeatedly failed to follow the strict guidelines of the Patriot Act when its agents took advantage of a new provision allowing the FBI to obtain phone and financial records without a court order, according to a report to be made public Friday by the Justice Department’s Inspector General. Full story from ABC...
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ATLANTA (AP) — A group of lawmakers wants to make it harder for police to use “no-knock” warrants in the wake of a shootout that left an elderly woman dead after plainclothes officers stormed her home unannounced in a search for drugs. Democratic Sen. Vincent Fort, a sponsor of the bill, said the case...
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