anarchy and the ticklish society
MONDAY APRIL 23 2001 Mass bomb scare ploy planned for May 1 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-118536,00.html BY DANIEL MCGRORY ANARCHIST groups plan to disrupt emergency services in their campaign of chaos on May 1 by encouraging their followers to make hundreds of bogus alarm calls. They want protesters to create bomb scares at Londons main rail and Underground stations, which would swiftly paralyse the capital. Man Released Following Bomb Scare at Burbank Airport http://www.latimes.com/editions/valley/sfnews/20010422/t34118.html Security: The San Jose-bound passenger's computer bag tested positive for residue of a chemical commonly used in explosives. Hundreds of passengers were delayed. Deodorant spray sparks hotel evacuation http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_268206.html?menu=news.latestheadlines More than 100 guests have been evacuated from a hotel after someone's over- exuberant use of a deodorant set off smoke detectors. Guests and staff had to flee and three fire engines were despatched after the alarm was raised at the Travelodge in Piccadilly, York.
Tanner has called mistrial for paranoid suspect with bad attorney, in past
On October 11, Federal District Judge Jack Tanner ordered that David Rice be given a new trial. Rice, 38, was originally sentenced to die for the 1985 Christmas Eve slayings of Charles and Annie Goldmark and their two sons, Derek, 12, and Colin, 10, at their Seattle home. Charles Goldmark was a celebrated civil-liberties attorney, as was his father, John; Rice had confused Charles with John and incorrectly thought that John Goldmark was a Communist and Jewish. Tanner ruled that Rice's first lawyer, Bill Lanning, had inadequately defended him. Rice's current lawyers argued that Lanning, who was in his seventies during the trial and has since died, was physically unable to keep up with a capital-punishment case. They said that Lanning allowed police to extract a confession from his client without an attorney present, and he didn't object to the confession being admitted into evidence during trial. They said that these actions were devastating to Rice's case. Rice's attorneys also contended that Lanning incompetently prepared for the penalty phase of the trial. Thorough preparation, they said, would have unearthed a psychiatrist's evaluation that Rice suffers from paranoid delusional disorder, supporting the contention that he was not guilty by reason of insanity. "That evidence about mental illness would have made a difference, and the jury never heard it," Peter Offenbecher, one of Rice's attorneys, said. http://www.scn.org/activism/wcadp/winter98.html
http://www.geocities.com/judgetanner/ -repaired
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Norm D'Plume wrote: http://www.geocities.com/judgetanner/ A TannerWatch Publication for citizen students of the legal process Most of the links on that page are screwed up. (File:// URLs mostly.) Fixed. Also expanded, with more biographical/career/bias notes. ... "Tanner recommends two ways lawyers can attain more 'mother wit.' First, he says, litigators would be wise to conduct as much of the discovery work on their own as they can."
Re: FC: More on public documents, jury lists, and baiting a judge
At 08:21 AM 4/10/01 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote: For bookmarking purposes, I've put links to the series of articles I wrote about Jim Bell from his raid to his trial here: http://www.cluebot.com/search.pl?topic=ap-politics Thanks. I've added that link and one to cryptome. The latest working page has a light yellow background. http://www.geocities.com/judgetanner
Tanner article (nicely formatted for you sensitive lads)
The Judge in the case was a Carter appointee who came out of retirement just to hear Als case. Judge Tanners behavior in the trial created a court transcript that can only be described as Kafkaesque. There is not a single page that does not reflect judicial abuse and misconduct. http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=1123
