Bernina Mata’s attorneys say prosecutors used homophobic rhetoric to secure a death sentence in 1999. Now they’re asking the governor to set her free.
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Anita Alvarez wants to take a third look at Anthony Porter
Was Anthony Porter guilty all along? Anita Alvarez says she’ll look into it.
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Brian Dugan — the romance of remembered evil
In her later years, my mother was given to pronouncements. One concerned South Africa — more specifically the noisy campaign to treat apartheid South Africa as a pariah nation by shunning its sports teams, disinvesting in its industries, and refusing to recognize its all-white government.
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Blind Justices?
The prosecutors who sent police torture victims to prison are now the judges who keep them there.