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February 26, 2003
CounterPunch Exclusive
Mistrial? Rosenthal Jurors Say They Received Outside Legal Advice!
by ANN HARRISON...
Posted: Wed, Feb 26, 2003 6:51pm PST
Chong, once one-half of the high-flying (literally) comedy team, Cheech & Chong, saw his Gardena, California, factory and Pacific Palisades home raided Monday by federal drug agents and other authorities, Los Angeles TV station NBC4 reported....
Posted: Wed, Feb 26, 2003 2:48am PST
Under the flag of the "War on Drugs" the Bush Administration has set in motion a genuine Fascist government, assaulted our Constitutional Freedoms and threaten to destabilze the entire world in a quest for dominance of oil and natural resources. Time to march them out of office....
Posted: Mon, Feb 24, 2003 3:08am PST
Thanks to Aron Kay for passing this along....
Posted: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 11:00pm PST
Our jurors should hear and be empowered to act upon evidence which implicates the moral underpinnings of the law, regardless of which side benefits....
Posted: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 10:39pm PST
As Ashley Villarreal lay in the hospital and drew her last breaths Tuesday, a friend challenged the official version of how federal agents days earlier shot the 14-year-old daughter of a drug trafficking suspect....
Posted: Tue, Feb 18, 2003 2:19pm PST
"When you think of it as a trial for an individual, it's a lot of money. But if you think of it as a way of changing the law, it's much cheaper than going through organizations and lobbying — it's policy change at a discount," he said....
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2003 10:19am PST
first day...
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2003 1:09am PST
Day one of the Out From the Shadows conference in Mérida, Mexico....
Posted: Thu, Feb 13, 2003 11:48pm PST
A report from the Narco News J-School, where dozens of guerrilla journalists have gathered to cover OUT FROM THE SHADOWS: Ending Drug Prohibition in the 21st Century, an international summit at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán in Mérida, México....
Posted: Wed, Feb 12, 2003 4:17am PST
Found on a listserv...
Posted: Tue, Feb 11, 2003 11:51pm PST
e.V.i.C.t. ThE d.E.a. -> 2/18
[during]
Medical Marijuana Week: 2/15 to 2/22...
Posted: Tue, Feb 11, 2003 1:34am PST
"Simpich noted that Rosenthal is one of more than 40 medical marijuana patients and caregivers now being threatened with federal prosecution."...
Posted: Tue, Feb 11, 2003 12:25am PST
KPFA Flashpoints Radio, February 7, 2003
-On the West Bank, 'International Solidarity Movment' members beaten, shot at, threated with death.. live interviews from a confrontation at checkpoint outside Nablus
-Dick Cheney's old companies, Halliburton, Brown and Root profitting greatly from war
-Ed Rosenthal begins a weekly Flashpoints feature about Medical Marijuana and the illegal war on drugs...
Posted: Mon, Feb 10, 2003 12:39am PST
Ed Rosenthal has joined the distinguished ranks of Great People of History. Namely, Galileo.......
Posted: Sat, Feb 8, 2003 6:49am PST
2 mp3 files, 8.7 megs per file // KPFA Radio...
Posted: Thu, Feb 6, 2003 11:39pm PST
Would jurors have taken the option of jury nullification in Rosenthal's case? "It would be speculation on my part, but it's very possible; dare I say, probable," says Sackett. "I think jury nullification is going to be part of the answer regarding states' rights in future cases."...
Posted: Wed, Feb 5, 2003 2:13am PST