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Both parties support the drug war and its attendant police-state apparatus--no-knock raids, forfeiture of property of people who haven't been convicted of anything, Draconian sentences, peeing on command as a requirement for getting or holding jobs, etc.--the latest thing is they want to inflict on Florida a genetically engineered fungus that's supposed to kill marijuana plants, although no one can guarantee it won't be an ecological disaster; these people are crazy!
If convicted, the officer could receive a dishonorable discharge and almost four years in prison.
The NYT and LAT off-leads and inside stories elsewhere report that the governor of Missouri, Mel Carnahan, a proponent of capital punishment, commuted the death sentence of a convicted murder to life in prison without parole after the pope, during his recent visit to St. Louis appealed directly to him to "show mercy" in the case.
What's inexcusable is that Toobin waits 100 pages to mention that a) Kirkland is a convicted forger; who b) had had "five, six, seven, eight even" beers the night in question; and c) hadn't actually seen Jones give the serial blow jobs to his friends.
It also reported Friday that Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi has asked her country's president to commute a death sentence of one of four people convicted of assassinating her husband, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, because she was the mother of a small child.