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Separation Of Powers? Maybe Not In Florida
Wed Oct 22 19:40:03 2003
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Separation Of Powers? Maybe Not In Florida
GOVERNOR ORDERS FEEDING RESUMED FOR FLORIDA WOMAN
Reuters

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Tuesday ordered doctors to resume tube-feeding
a severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a long-running battle
between family members over whether she should live or die. Bush acted
within hours of the state legislature passing a controversial bill
giving him authority to overrule a court order under which nutrition
and water for Theresa "Terri" Schiavo, 39, were cut off six days ago.

http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20031022/lifecomadc.html

View The Bill That Was Passed, As Amended, And Signed Into Law [PDF]
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/schiavo/flsb35e102103.pdf
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Separating The Rational From The Emotional
KOBE BRYANT'S ACCUSER: IS THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE
A PRESUMPTION OF FALSE ACCUSATION?
FindLaw Columnist Sherry F. Colb

FindLaw columnist and Rutgers law professor Sherry Colb discusses the
presumption of innocence and the Kobe Bryant prosecution. Colb argues
that this presumption is widely misunderstood -- and the Bryant case
provides one example of how. Colb stresses that the presumption of
innocence does not require anything of the public, but only of jurors
-- and that even jurors are in no way required to presume, at a case's
outset, that a date rape accuser is probably lying.

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20031022.html

See Colorado's Case Against Bryant (Colorado v Bryant) [PDF Files]
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/documents/archive_b.html#bryant

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"Hmmm....Just Give Us Everything"
REQUEST TO ERASE CLASSIFIED FILES NIXED
Associated Press

The Justice Department sought extraordinary permission to let the FBI
conduct a search-and-destroy mission on any computers harboring
classified information about a 1980s case that temporarily became
public in a lawsuit. A federal judge, however, rejected the idea. The
request from federal prosecutors in Sacramento, Calif., was considered
highly unusual by legal experts because it did not specify which
computers the government believed might contain the classified
information or how agents would retrieve and destroy information that
already had been made public.

http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1152/10-22-2003/20031022000007_05.html

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Judicial Reasoning
FEDERAL JUDGE CLAIMS SENTENCING PRESSURE
Associated Press

A federal judge has accused Congress and the Justice Department of
bullying judges into thinking twice about handing down lenient
sentences. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson made the claim in a
statement explaining his reasons for not granting a "downward
departure" from federal sentencing guidelines in a criminal case he
handled.

http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/10-22-2003/20031022020004_03.html

Read The Judge's Statement (U.S. v. Kirsch) [PDF]
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/crim/uskirsch102003stmnt.pdf

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