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New Year Open Thread

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So long, 2008: At a minimum you gave us no shortage of blogging material and for that I am grateful.I'm going to take another day off and climb back into the blogging saddle tomorrow. Until then, use this as an open thread to discuss the most important criminal justice topics of the past year. Here's my ad hoc stab at a top ten list of the year's most important criminal justice stories:Historic malfeasance: The Charles Dean Hood case exposed a judge-DA tryst from a 1991 capital murder trial. The judge, Verla Sue Holland, was later appointed by Gov. Bush to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.The cartel wars in Juarez (El Paso's sister city) claimed more than 1,500 victims while corruption increased on the US side and a Texas Sheriff who received millions in drug-war grants was discovered on a cartel's payroll...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 01, 2009 (boomark / email).

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