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The woman clearly should have sought treatment elsewhere if the doctor's refused to provide the procedure. There are pharmacies now that because of religious beliefs do not fill birth control perscriptions. Are they in front of the supreme court? Other gay and lesbian couples/individuals have found ways to conceive children. Why not her?
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@ 02:49 AM (26 months, 20 days ago)
As gas prices continue to skyrocket, many political experts believe Republicans will pay the price in the voting booth come November. Though most bipartisan observers of the oil industry say the President has little impact on the price of fuel at our nation's gas pumps, Bush needs to be defended in this particular case.
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2006/4/26
Folks, this is important, take a few minutes to read this over at Elmer's Brother and then go sign this petition and read his "Lover of Angels" post.
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@ 03:54 AM (26 months, 21 days ago)
Rumor Mill is saying that Zarqawi has a new Strategist on his team. Could be that Assad Pino has signed on to oversee Zarqawi's mission against the United States? I felt as though I were reading words from BlogHi's own Global War Blog.
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@ 03:47 AM (26 months, 21 days ago)
Iran 'worst threat to Jews since Hitler'
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@ 03:45 AM (26 months, 21 days ago)
California--A man who spent five hours naked and stuck in the chimney of his stepmother's home was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, police said.
Police say Michael Urbano, 23, locked himself out of the house early Saturday morning and decided to get in on a cable TV wire through the chimney.
But the wire broke and Urbano fell, getting stuck about three-quarters of the way down. He was freed when a firefighter pushed him to safety.
"We get him up, and he's naked as a jaybird," said Hayward police Lt. Gary Branson. "He tells us he took his clothes off because there would be less friction going down the chute. We did find his clothes. So that part checked out."
Authorities were called about 6:15 a.m. Saturday. A neighbor heard "faint, distressing" calls since about 2:30 a.m. and decided to call police.
Police say it probably wasn't a comfortable few hours for Urbano.
"He's not fat," Branson said, "but he used to play football. He's not that little."
Sorry, I wasn't able to provide a visual. On second thought, we didn't miss a thing!
@ 03:42 AM (26 months, 21 days ago)
VALPARAISO- IN-- Signs outside almost every Valparaiso University fraternity sum up the student consensus toward the campus police these days.
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2006/4/25
@ 04:23 AM (26 months, 22 days ago)
An attorney for a Markham man found guilty of trying to kill a Harvey police officer charged Friday that her client is the victim of retaliation by corrections officers who are keeping him in the Cook County Jail's psychiatric ward.
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@ 04:11 AM (26 months, 22 days ago)
A very wealthy man was having an affair with an Italian woman for several years. One night, during one of their rendezvous, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money if she would go to Italy to secretly have the child.
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@ 04:07 AM (26 months, 22 days ago)
You're for sale. No, not your house. You.
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@ 04:02 AM (26 months, 22 days ago)
NEW YORK, April 24 (UPI) -- A lurid lawsuit filed in New York by a producer for "The Maury Povich Show" Monday charged the host with creating an atmosphere permeated by sex.
The $30 million suit filed by Bianca Nardi in New York Supreme Court claims Povich, who is married to newswoman Connie Chung, had "a long time, intimate and sexual relationship" with a staffer, which "created a hostile workplace that was sexually abusive to woman (sic)," TMZ.com reported.
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2006/4/24
Colleges and universities, like the institutions of free press and free speech, are supposed to carry out their "need to know" functions in a responsible manner. Practically everyone would agree that the basic purpose of a college or university is to create new knowledge and teach both old and new knowledge. Few would also disagree that academic freedom might be an appropriate tool for accomplishing that purpose. However, sometimes the exercise of intellectual dissent under the guise of academic freedom is misguided and just plain wrong. For example :
Lover of Angels, apparently known to some as Dr. Julio C. Pino, Professor of Kent State University has attracted the gaze of anti-terrorist activists. While LOA hasn't shown anything but reasonable deference in his comments on this blog, (much obliged, Dr.) he has definitely used his own blog, a school computer to author the site global-war, as a stump for pro-islamofascism. His anti-American writings have many readers incensed and determined to see him removed from his post as a professor at a public university in Ohio. For a look at the petition making its way around the country, click here.
In one post, he prays for a hurricane of fire "to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their infidel dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire"
His poetry includes descriptions of the sailors who were bombed on the USS Cole. "The heads, arms, legs and other limbs of the bodies of the infidels flew like dust particles into outer space."
And if that doesn't give enough cause for alarm, he republishes previously released terror manual excerpts in his post, "How can I train myself for Jihad?"
@ 04:59 AM (26 months, 23 days ago)
The root cause of national concern over immigration: Speak English. This is the last and least-mentioned problem/solution by the nation’s media, but the most readily observed and resented issue relating to immigrants, illegal or otherwise, because it is in our face everywhere.
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@ 04:38 AM (26 months, 23 days ago)
I'm not mocking the Judge in this hearing, I am only pointing out the insane bond set for this man. We have people across the country who comitt far worse acts of violence and you never see bond set at a hearing that fits the crime. Although the man is homeless and likely to disappear and not return to his next court hearing. There is no way for this man to even post a bond. In recent cases those accussed of criminal sexual assault crimes against minors at best receive between $50,000 and $100,000 and those people can put up there house as a bond. If Judges are going to be making decisions that often effect our community, then all bonds should be raised at a level to ensure the communities safety.
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@ 04:13 AM (26 months, 23 days ago)
As you can see Ray Nagin shows off his new look as he heads into the general election runoff. He thought this would bring back some of the white votes for the run off election to take play in May.
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2006/4/23
@ 05:54 AM (26 months, 24 days ago)
With President Hu Jintao, leader of the People’s Republic of China, visiting the US for the first time a host of issues related to China’s rapid economic growth and position as a world power must be discussed.
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@ 05:50 AM (26 months, 24 days ago)
McHENRY, Ill. A special education teacher at McHenry West High School is facing sexual abuse charges.
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@ 04:37 AM (26 months, 24 days ago)
Unfortunately, the protesting immigrants and their supporters are missing a key point. Most Americans know and understand that we are a nation of immigrants. We are also a nation of laws. We are not against immigrants or immigration, but we are for lawful entry and protection of legal workers. This country does not owe automatic citizenship or anything else to those who have systematically thumbed their noses at our laws, just because they have been able to get away with it for ten years. Whitewashing the nature of their presence here by saying they have broken no laws, and that they are only trying to make a better life does not change what this is. These are not undocumented migrant workers or guest workers. They are illegal immigrants regardless of the label you put on it. The actions by the protestors and boycott organizers attempt to do nothing but blackmail this country into submission. My question to Mr. Vincente Fox is, "Why aren't you doing anything to improve the conditions in your country, for your citizens, instead of telling us how we can improve our country for your citizens?"
@ 04:35 AM (26 months, 24 days ago)
2006/4/22
Illinois-A Park City woman who is expecting a baby in July was sentenced to 8 years in prison Thursday for killing her 8-day-old child almost 3 years ago.
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@ 06:15 AM (26 months, 25 days ago)
The Rumsfeld vs. General Officer battle has run its course. Both sides have their points, but it's time for the media frenzy to end. It has become a distraction from the war on terrorism, the establishment of peace in Iraq and Afghanistan, and good order and discipline. The current situation reminds me of the military book, "Once an Eagle" by Anton Myrer. The preamble states:
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@ 06:07 AM (26 months, 25 days ago)
Instead of fishing around for a credit card or cash, shoppers at some major grocery stores now have the option of paying their grocery bill a new way,with their index finger. They simply press the finger into a stamp-sized piece of glass and the sale is completed, assuming you've got the money in the right account.
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@ 05:53 AM (26 months, 25 days ago)
With all the mega bucks the rap world stars are making, why is there so much violence and murder in their elite world? We saw earlier this weeks headlines of yet another rapper, by the name Proof, a prominent member of D12 who was gunned down and killed outside a nightclub. The Rap industry has seen it's fair share of talented rappers loose their lives. The "Gangster" image as it is known by those who buy their records are setting a very dangerous trend among their fans who are very young and impressionable. The jewlery, lifestyle, hot upscale expensive cars, and the millions of dollars that line they pockets appear quite attractive in their world. But is is? If the shooting and violence continues the Rap industry will be extinct like Dinosaurs. The rappers must get their act straight and pose a nonviolent image in the African American Society and the World. Whether we as parents want to believe it or not, these groups are of great interest to middle and high school students across the globe. So after so many tragedies, maybe it's time for that segment of the music industry to work on creating and teaching all communities in every school the tools that will enable their fan base, our nation's children, towards a Violence-Free Future.
2006/4/21
@ 06:10 AM (26 months, 26 days ago)
RIVERTON, Kansas (AP) -- Five teenage boys accused of plotting a shooting rampage at their high school on the anniversary of the Columbine massacre were arrested today after a message authorities said warned of a gun attack appeared on the Web site MySpace.com.
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@ 06:10 AM (26 months, 26 days ago)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- For 84-year-old Josephine Crawford, the golden years just got a lot more golden. About to call it quits after a night playing slot machines, the Galloway Township widow hit a $10 million jackpot late Tuesday, the biggest in the history of casino gambling here.
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@ 04:38 AM (26 months, 26 days ago)
Illinois- A DuPage County grand jury Today, returned a 23-count indictment charging Neil J. Lofquist with the murder and sexual assault of his 8-year-old daughter, Lauren Lofquist, according to a release from the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s office.
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2006/4/20
@ 06:06 AM (26 months, 27 days ago)
Third-Grader Takes Teacher's Van for Ride---
MODESTO, Calif. -- An 8-year-old boy swiped his teacher's car keys and took her minivan for a joyride, cruising safely home and into the record books as the city's youngest auto thief, police said.
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@ 05:57 AM (26 months, 27 days ago)
Even before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, there was a war brewing between Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the military. Rumsfeld took command of the department five years ago, trumpeting his intentions to transform America's military forces. He preached nimble, quick strike forces, not lumbering columns of heavy armor. He envisioned how wars in the future would be fought, with high-tech weapons and pinpoint precision bombs. He made a lot of enemies in the rigid Pentagon bureaucracy.
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@ 05:52 AM (26 months, 27 days ago)
SAN DIEGO -- Secure Networks USA LLC says it has just the escape route for painful dates: A plea you can pre-arrange online before your encounter.
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@ 05:46 AM (26 months, 27 days ago)
LAUDERDALE LAKES ---People are often annoyed at door-to-door sales people, but they were downright offended at what one man was offering to women who answered his knock. Police say the man went door-to-door carrying a doctor’s bag and offering free breast examinations, and actually got two women to take him up on his offer.
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2006/4/19
But at Ohio State University, it seems that the suggesting of conservative books for freshman reading is grounds for suit under the sexual harassment statutes.
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@ 05:45 AM (26 months, 28 days ago)
It would be hard to think of a protest more lunatic or more offensive than the ones carried out by Rev. Fred Phelps, pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church. He and his Kansas church members, most of them members of his extended family, show up at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq not to mourn, but to gloat. "This family got what it deserved for sending their daughter to defend this evil nation," one protester said at the funeral of Army Pfc. Amy Duerksen in Temple, Texas.
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@ 05:41 AM (26 months, 28 days ago)
For years, women at high risk for breast cancer have been offered the drug tamoxifen to cut their risk in half.
But many refuse the treatment because tamoxifen also increases the risk of uterine cancer, life-threatening blood clots and cataracts.
Now there may be a safer alternative. A major government study has found that the osteoporosis drug Evista works as well as tamoxifen in reducing breast cancer risk, with fewer serious side effects.
"This will reassure many women," said breast cancer specialist Dr. Kathy Albain of Loyola University Health System, one of more than 500 centers that participated in the $88 million National Cancer Institute study.
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@ 05:38 AM (26 months, 28 days ago)
We all have them. You know those days where everyone walks around like they are from another planet. In honor of such a day I could have done without. I pause for a moment hoping they don't return to work this week and move someplace else...
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2006/4/18
@ 05:19 AM (26 months, 29 days ago)
Eight months ago, Gordon "Randy" Steidl got laid off for two weeks from his factory job. He applied for nearly a dozen other jobs, carefully explaining to each employer that he had been wrongfully convicted of a double murder in Illinois. Try putting that on your work application.
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@ 05:01 AM (26 months, 29 days ago)
The first reaction upon hearing that Maine will allow judges to issue orders of protection for pets might be to chuckle. Most dogs, it seems, can fend for themselves. Though it's true your run-of-the-mill yellow Lab is so clueless and affable that he probably could use a bodyguard.
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@ 04:55 AM (26 months, 29 days ago)
Hey, kids, if you think your parents are overprotective now, wait until you get a mobile phone.
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@ 04:48 AM (26 months, 29 days ago)
In the time the couple took to create the elaborate scheme, all the plans, preparation and photo's, maybe these two healthy individuals, both could have taken a JOB.
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2006/4/17
It could have been a lot worse if Anna Burns didn't scream out for her two children to flea the house and save themselves, they too, would have been killed. Again and again we read these stories with the same tragic ending. Most often, in the life of a police officer when you strip him of what he loves best and knows violence erupts like a volcano in the homes of law enforcement across the country. Could something have been done by the Sheriff's Department? According to information and prior incidents of calls to the home, Yes. When you take away an officer's badge, you take away his dignity and strip him of all he knows. When that happens, the family is likely to be harmed. In some cases, officers become depressed and commit suicide.
Pima County sheriff's deputy fired from the force in February for failure to meet probationary standards shot and killed his wife…
…Anna I. Burns, 45, was shot to death after telling her two daughters to flee their home…
…As the children, one 17 and the other an adult, fled the home they heard at least two shots…
…Detectives said the couple planned to divorce but were living together while they sold their house…
…There are signs that such domestic violence can escalate to a homicide, Johnston said. If the abuser threatens to kill his partner, those threats should be taken seriously. "More so, if they are threatening suicide while engaging in domestic violence, it is very likely that he will kill his partner and their children, before taking his own life," she said…
Police say ex-sheriff's deputy killed wife, self
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.14.2006
Tucson police are investigating what they're calling a murder-suicide on the South Side.
Detectives said Eric Burns, a former Pima County Sheriff's deputy, fatally wounded his wife, Ana Irma Burns, before shooting himself early this morning in the bedroom of their home, in the 4600 block of South Paseo Rio Bravo. The house is near the Santa Cruz River and Irvington Road.
Police were called by the woman's 17-year-old daughter, who had run from the house with her adult sister when their step-father retrieved a handgun around 3 a.m., said Sgt. Decio Hopffer, a Tucson Police Department spokesman. The daughters heard at least two gunshots, he said.
The man and woman were dead at the scene, he said.
Detectives said the couple planned to divorce but were living together while they sold their house.
If you are married to an officer of the law and you fear for your safety. Please contact the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence at 1-800-799-SAFE. Or you may contact me via my email address at kindlivingpress@aol.com and I will do what I can to provide a plan of action.
PURCELL, Oklahoma---- The man accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor girl for an elaborate plan to eat human flesh joked about cannibalism on his online diary, discussed the effects of not taking his anti-depression medication and mentioned "dangerously weird" fantasies.
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2006/4/15
@ 07:14 PM (27 months, 2 days ago)
"Yet Another Nutty Professor"
We have another candidate for this year’s Nuttiest Professor Award, a Cuban Muslim convert who teaches history at Kent State, with a completely unhinged letter to the Daily Kent Stater supporting Ward Churchill: The world needs more Churchills to speak up. (Hat tip: Jordan.)
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A Democratic strategist assumes room temperature and finds himself at the Pearly Gates. The strategist is taken inside Heaven by St. Peter and given a guided tour. He's led into one huge room that is full of millions of clocks, and he notices a clock with his name on it that has stopped.
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@ 04:01 AM (27 months, 2 days ago)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) --``Eric didn't choose to be mentally ill. It chose him,'' she says. ``He shouldn't be punished for it.'' said his mother......
The phone roused Terry Clark from sleep. She eyed the clock: 5 a.m. Who could be calling at this hour?
``Flagstaff Police Department,'' the voice announced, abruptly asking to speak with Mr. Clark. Terry nudged Dave and handed over the receiver. ``My son's truck?'' she heard her husband say. ``Gentry?''
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Two weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in Georgia v. Randolph said that when a resident denies the police consent to search his home, they may not search on the basis of another resident's consent. Justice Souter wrote the majority opinion, from which three Justices - including the new Chief Justice Roberts - dissented. The Court made the right decision, notwithstanding the dissenters' expressed concern for victims of domestic violence.
What Is A Consent Search?
Ordinarily, when the police wish to enter a person's home uninvited, they must obtain a warrant, supported by probable cause to believe that a search of the premises will turn up evidence of crime. In an emergency requiring immediate action, however, the police may enter without a warrant. Still, even an emergency does not justify entry in the absence of probable cause. In other words, the police need to have a good reason to invade the privacy of the home.
There is a context in which the police may forego both probable cause and a warrant, though, and that is the consent search. When a person gives the police consent to enter her home (or a home that she shares with others), the Fourth Amendment no longer requires police to have a reason for entering.
The Supreme Court's account of this departure from the normal Fourth Amendment requirements is that a person may voluntarily choose to give up her privacy for the police, whether to clear her name or for some other reason. By contrast to a decision to give up the right to a lawyer's representation, moreover, "There is nothing constitutionally suspect in a person's voluntarily allowing a search," the Court stated in Schneckloth v. Bustamonte and in regards to this case, each resident implicitly speaks on behalf of the others in saying "it's okay to come into my house."
Problems of Consent: Ignorance and Disagreement
Though the freedom to decide when to exercise one's rights can be a valuable thing, consent searches raise some difficult issues. One issue, which I discussed in a prior post, is the reality that many (and perhaps most) people do not feel free to refuse a police officer's request for consent. They may believe that he is authorized to search even if they do not consent, or they may worry that regardless of the law, he will do whatever he wants to do - and such people may also fear that a refusal will itself give rise to probable cause.
A second issue, one that arises in Randolph, is the potential for conflict between people who share authority over a home. In Randolph, the husband (and future criminal defendant) refused consent, and his wife granted it.
The Court had previously determined, in United States v. Matlock http://laws.findlaw.com/us/415/164.html, that for the police to perform a valid consent search, they need only one person's permission, as long as they confine the search to areas within the consenter's authority or apparent authority. The Court has reasoned that part of what it means to share a home is to allow any one of the co-equal roommates to invite guests inside without having to consult the others.
In Randolph, the Court faced the question of what happens when a non-consenting resident is on the premises at the time the police arrive and explicitly objects to the officers' entry. As mentioned in an earlier post Georgia v. Randolph, such a situation properly calls for a different approach, because it can no longer be said that the resident who says "come in" is speaking on behalf of all of the other residents.
The Supreme Court apparently agreed with this assessment of social custom and held that police violated the Fourth Amendment when they entered the defendant's home at his spouse's invitation, in the face of the defendant's refusal to consent.
An Obstacle to Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence?
The dissenters in Randolph accused the majority of inventing the custom of respecting a resident's refusal of consent. The accusation was not well-founded, however. When more than one person lives in a home, whether the residents are married or not, a guest invited by one resident would understand that she should not enter the house if another resident is standing at the door refusing her admission.
A more troubling accusation, however, came in the form of a prediction: Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Scalia claimed in their respective dissents that without the ability to enter a home in the face of a spousal dispute over consent, the police will not be as effective at protecting women from domestic violence. If true, the Court's decision could prove dangerous to the literally millions of people in this country who suffer intimate partner victimization every year.
Fortunately, this accusation is without merit. Furthermore, it reflects significant confusion about the role of consent searches in the enforcement of the criminal law. Specifically, it rests on the assumption that police sometimes need consent to enforce the law.
This assumption ignores the fact that the Fourth Amendment authorizes police who have a good reason to enter premises to go ahead and do so. It is only when an officer lacks a good reason to enter without a warrant that he or she "needs" to resort to a request for consent. And in the absence of probable cause, it is entirely appropriate for a resident (and the law) to deny entry to the police. To claim that "consent searches" are very important is therefore to treat a consent search as a matter of police entitlement rather than a gratuitous courtesy to law enforcement that every person should feel completely free to withhold.
But what if a man is abusing his wife? Must the officers rely on consent to enter the marital home? No. If the police have good reason to think that a man is abusing his partner, they can and should enter the premises to investigate and to protect the victim. Indeed, if a woman says "he is abusing me," the police face an emergency that excuses the warrant requirement. Though it might turn out, in a rare case, that the woman is claiming abuse out of spite, this risk - of a lying witness - is an inevitable part of probable cause, and indeed of a criminal justice system that relies on the testimony of fallible and potentially dishonest witnesses, male and female alike.
To suggest that a woman's complaint of domestic violence is not enough, alone, to justify police entry is to insult victims of domestic battery. When police have good reason to believe that a violent crime is in progress in a private home, they can and should enter that home, regardless of whether anyone consents to their doing so. The proper enforcement of laws against spousal violence therefore has no implications for the scope of Fourth Amendment consent. As the majority put it, "this case has no bearing on the capacity of the police to protect domestic victims."
It is important to see the Supreme Court Justices, are developing the constitutional law of privacy, expressing concern for women's safety. For far too long, the law left women in the U.S. at the mercy of their husbands - by, among other things, exempting marital rape from punishment and classifying spousal abuse as a relatively innocuous offense, all in the name of treating a man's home as his castle. Even with changes in the law, moreover, marital violence continues to terrorize far too many women, and the law has not done enough to deter and punish offenders.
Allowing one resident's consent to trump another's refusal, however, will do nothing to help victims of intimate violence. Where a victim feels frightened enough to call the police and ask for help against an abuser, the Fourth Amendment poses no legal obstacle to police entering the marital castle and arresting the king. And when nothing of the kind is happening, and police wish to look for drugs, they can apply for a search warrant. Either spouse should be able to exercise the right to turn away unwanted guests, even when the guests happen to be officers of the law.
@ 03:18 AM (27 months, 2 days ago)
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) Isabel Whitehair had never heard of methamphetamine before her 2-year-old son reached under the sink at bath time, pulled out a pipe and put it to his mouth.
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@ 03:17 AM (27 months, 2 days ago)
Illinois--- A young black woman accused of sending racist threats to minority classmates at her small Christian university has pleaded guilty to felony disorderly conduct and has been sentenced to two years probation.
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2006/4/14
@ 05:22 AM (27 months, 3 days ago)
Gov. Howard Dean (a.k.a. the screamer) who is also the head of the National Democratic Party, appeared today on CNN. In the interview he used the phrase "the appetite of the American people is hungry for change. Boy that's original. He then returned to democatic party headquarters where a photographer captured this group photo. Can you guess which one is Hilliary?
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@ 04:56 AM (27 months, 3 days ago)
Cardinal Francis George, the head of the nation's third-largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, said last week that sexual abuse of children by priests is a ``moral crisis'' that threatens to stain the church's progress over the past 50 years. These sexual preditors should be prosecuted like everyone else. Again, we continue to have double standards when it comes to protecting our nation's children.
George and the Chicago archdiocese have been under fire for weeks for failing to remove a priest from church work even though allegations that he sexually abused a boy arose months before he was charged.
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@ 04:35 AM (27 months, 3 days ago)
On a mission from their leader, five young men arrived in Chicago to open a little fish shop on Elston Avenue. Back then, in 1980, people of their faith were castigated as "Moonies" and called cult members. Yet the Japanese and American friends worked grueling hours and slept in a communal apartment as they slowly built the foundation of a commercial empire.
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