There are five "things" on the Supreme Court who are filth...

[joeybee12]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_supreme_court_exonerated_inmate

WASHINGTON – An ideologically divided Supreme Court overturned a $14 million judgment given to a former death row inmate who was convicted of murder after New Orleans prosecutors withheld evidence in his trial.

The court's five conservative-leaning justices, in their first ideological victory of the year, said the New Orleans district attorney's office should not be punished for not providing specific training to young prosecutors on Brady rights, which dictate when to turn over evidence to a suspect's lawyer that could prove their innocence.

But in a rare oral dissent read directly from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that John Thompson deserved damages for "the gross, deliberately indifferent and long-continuing violation of his fair trial rights."

Thompson, who at one point was only weeks away from being executed, successfully sued the prosecutor's office in New Orleans, arguing former District Attorney Harry Connick showed deliberate indifference by not providing adequate training for assistant district

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[Mnemosyne]

1. Thugs and accessories to war crimes, imho. Dec. 2000. K&R n/t

[H2O Man]

2. Brady violations

are often intentional, especially in death penalty cases. I suspect that these Injustices were looking not only at this case, but the door it would open. They prefer a shut casket to justice.

[eShirl]

3. unrec for shameful dehumanizing subject line

we should be above this

[Downtown Hound]

4. I don't think so

Those five have the blood of hundreds of thousands on their hands, not to mention a wrecked global economy. Why do we always have to be nice to those that destroy so much?

[eShirl]

6. Excellent irony. Kudos.

[Scruffy1]

9. Oh please be nice to these low life scum.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Very clearly, you're right. They don't take their positions nearly seriously enough. Monsters. n/t

[jeff47]

7. 5 people. Dehumanization is a terrible thing, no matter who your target is. (nt)

[spanone]

8. ain't that america....you can cheat justice with backing from the supreme court

a democracy hanging on by it's teeth

[alp227]

10. really really sad, and the singer Connick must be mad at his father

this is so astonishing, the supreme court making all these dumb decisions, and keeping those in power in power even if abusive