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Battering The Poor: How Georgia’S Mandatory Family Violence Classes Deny Indigent Defendants Equal Protection Of The Law, Whitney Scherck

Whitney Scherck

Thirty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court in Bearden v. Georgia held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a court from incarcerating an individual for failure to pay a fine unless it first inquires into their reasons for failing to do so and determines that the defendant willfully failed to make bona fide efforts to pay. However, recently, a new kind of legal debt has emerged. As states’ budgets tighten, so-called user fees are becoming an increasingly common way for legislatures to toughen the criminal justice system without having to come up with funding for it. …

How The Global Crime Syndicates Fuel Planet Destruction, Global Alliance

Global Alliance

since 1945 more environmental planet destruction has been fuelled and financed with ever more leveraged debt than in the previous 60 million years - it's applied terrorism against the global life support system under the protection racket of a corrupt law profession

California's Three Tiered Approach To Temper The Injustice Of The Unlawful Act Involuntary Manslaughter Rule, George L. Mertens

George L Mertens

This article addresses California’s “Unlawful Act Involuntary Manslaughter Rule” which is also referred to as the “misdemeanor manslaughter rule.” On its face, like the analogous felony-murder rule, this law can be applied in a brutally unjust manner. Indeed, this law is worse than the felony-murder rule in that the statute does not enumerate specific predicate acts. On its face, the law could apply to any violation of a misdemeanor or infraction which results in death. Judicially, the law had undergone significant limitations over time with the most significant coming in the last decade.

This article is timely and important for …