This certainly seems to be the right decision: Palm Beach County prosecutors decide to charge Rush Limbaugh for his prescription drug use, they’ll have to do it without questioning the conservative radio host’s doctors about his medical condition, a judge ruled Monday. Prosecutors can subpoena Limbaugh’s physicians in connection with a “doctor shopping” investigation but …
The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
Cory Maye (cont.)
The Battle Panda is staying on top of the Cory Maye nightmare, with posts here and here. Radley Balko has written a load on this, and now has access to warrants and affadavits.
The Hysteria Continues
And in this case, the hysteria is both mine and the governments. Mine, because my biggest fear about power grabs like the Patriot Act is that they will not be used for the limited role of combatting terrorism, but will simply be used to broadly expand government power. The government, because they are using the …
This is Obscene
This piece by Radley Balko is the first I had heard of this case (thanks to the emailers), and I am appalled: Let’s summarize: Cops mistakenly break down the door of a sleeping man, late at night, as part of drug raid. Turns out, the man wasn’t named in the warrant, and wasn’t a suspect. …
Reefer Madness Redux
Bill Ardolino has a long and interesting post up deflating a lot of the hype surrounding steroid use.
The War on Your Neighbor
Via Hit and Run, the Drug War Chronicle has the gory details: More than half a million people were behind bars for drug offenses in the United States at the end of last year, according to numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. In a report released Sunday, Prisoners in 2004, the Justice Department number-crunchers …
Bible Studies and Crystal Meth
To each his own: Ashley Smith, who was held hostage in her apartment in March by the man now charged with murder in the Atlanta courthouse shootings, was hailed as a hero after she disclosed how she had persuaded her captor to surrender, partly by reading to him from the spiritual best seller “The Purpose-Driven …