DOPE TAX CONSTITUTES DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Using factors described in a United States Supreme Court case, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals found the Wisconsin drug tax to constitute criminal punishment, thus overturning - on Double Jeopardy grounds - a 20 year drug trafficking conviction sentence.
(Suggested by Paul Whitehurst)
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Thursday, January 29, 2004
Sunday, January 25, 2004
CUBA DIARY
In Cuba necessity demands simplicity... Despite the simplicity of day-to-day life, the mechanics of Cuban society are very difficult to decipher...The word "esperar" in Spanish means both to wait and to hope. The double definition of this word is appropriate for Cuba.
(CAPE COD CHRONICLE, unearthed by Cuba Daily News Digest)
In Cuba necessity demands simplicity... Despite the simplicity of day-to-day life, the mechanics of Cuban society are very difficult to decipher...The word "esperar" in Spanish means both to wait and to hope. The double definition of this word is appropriate for Cuba.
(CAPE COD CHRONICLE, unearthed by Cuba Daily News Digest)
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