Virginia Right!

This is the letter I am sending to many places tonight or over the next few days: I appreciate the opportunity to discuss this issue with you.  I appreciate your time.  The Appellate Defender’s office would make the promise of Gideon closer to fulfillment in our Commonwealth. In 2009 the IDC abolished the Appellate Defender’s [...]

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Me too, lil’ weasel.Me too!Because there was certainly a lot of information, entertainment and stimulation in this week’s entries…but then, there always is. The Council has weighed in, made its judgment known and the results are hereby engraved in our marble archives here in deepest cyberspace. The above is a tweet posted by lefty comedian [...]

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I wholeheartedly support and endorse the Guardian’s (UK) editorial on the death sentence of Pastor Youssef Nadarkhani. Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, the lawyer who was brave enough to defend him, was himself sentenced to nine years on trumped-up charges this summer. Both these sentences are offences against natural justice. Both were appealed. The supreme court in [...]

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