09/16/10 (MS): Military Won't Notice End to Gay Ban Says Expert If Congress decides to let gay men and lesbians serve openly in the U.S. military, the reaction among the vast majority of soldiers is likely to be a big collective yawn, a leading historian said Thursday.

09/15/10 (IN): Law Professor Testifies as Ethics Expert at Impeachment Hearing Professor Geyh, the John F. Kimberling Professor of Law at Indiana University, has testified as an expert witness in the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee's proceedings on four articles of impeachment against the U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Appointed in 1994, Porteous has been accused of declining to disqualify himself from a case in which he solicited money from a lawyer with whom he had a longstanding, corrupt relationship; giving bail bondsmen preferential treatment in exchange for meals, trips and services; perjuring himself in his bankruptcy proceeding; and lying under oath during his Senate confirmation proceedings.

09/08/10 (MS): Killed On A Technicality According to a recent article on the Reason.com website, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood wants to execute a man based on discredited forensic testimony from a disgraced dentist. It makes for interesting reading. Click on the link.

09/01/10 (OR): Terrorism Expert: Charities Funded Islamic Fighters An expert witness for the prosecution has testified that Islamic charities based in Saudi Arabia, including the one an Oregon tree surgeon is accused of smuggling money for, were regular conduits of funding to Muslim fighters in the volatile Caucasus region.

08/18/2010 (BRA): Experts on Comedy Required It's been dubbed the 'anti joking law'. Brazil's comedians are not allowed to poke fun at candidates ahead of the nation's presidential election in October.

06/21/10 (LA): 38 Years In Solitary Isn't Enough? Albert Woodfox has spent nearly all of the last 38 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. His case has brought protests from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, who argue that Woodfox's decades in lockdown constitute torture, and from a growing band of supporters, who believe that he was denied a fair trial. For more than ten years, he has been fighting for his release in the courts. But now, a ruling by a federal appeals court ensured that for the forseeable future, Albert Woodfox will remain right where he has been for nearly four decades: in a 6 x 9 cell in the heart of America's largest and most notorious prison. The link takes you an online 'Solitary Watch' article.