17 January 2003

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Whenever I get depressed about practicing criminal defense in a conservative county (Chesterfield), in a conservative State (Virginia) I look around for places where the situation is worse.

Texas is always good for violations of people's liberties. In Houston don't go to your local K-Mart (or at least its parking lot). And don't sit around in your house watching TV in San Antonio.

Here's a nightmare of how police can harass a citizen (from Las Vegas). Particularly egregious is the re-entry of the warrant into the inter-state system after Las Vegas has declined to extradite the guy once. If the victim had not had the resources to travel back to Nevada and take care of this he could have been picked up in his home State over and over, spending a couple of days in jail, having Nevada decline extradition, and having the police re-enter the warrant until the next time.

Of course don't ever let law enforcement near your dog in Tennessee (there is absolutely no excuse). Weird, I deal with bad things which are done to people every day but seeing the video got me more fired up than I've been in a while.

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