Human Rights | Habeas Corpus

2010-09-02: Headlines

• Columbia Daily Tribune: Ryan Fergusons attorney outlines next step 2010-09-02

  Ryan Ferguson’s defense could file a petition for a habeas corpus hearing with the Cole County Circuit Court in the next 30 days in response to its recent appellate defeat.

• NBC Chicago: West Side Community Leader to Hold Press Conference Over 'Secret Trick Meeting' 2010-09-02

  Tha Movement believes this to be nothing more then the continuation of Commander Jon Burge style tactics of harrassment! | The release then quoted excerpts from the Constitution, including Section 9, the Limits of Congress, on the rights of habeas corpus and ex post facto laws, and the Fourth Amendment, concerning illegal searches of property. | Allen, a West Side community activist, was not immediately available for comment.

2010-09-01: Headlines

• Columbia Missourian: Ryan Ferguson loses bid for new trial; defense vows to continue 2010-09-01

  Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | 5:29 p.m. CDT; | The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District rejected Ryan Ferguson's appeal for a new hearing because he could not prove a previous ruling was erroneous. The court did say, however, that Ferguson has other options to plead his case. | Read the text of the Missouri Court of Appeals ruling denying Ferguson's request to seek a new trial.

• Pajamas Media: All This and Weimar, Too: The Million Reichsmark March 2010-09-01

  So he took those $3,000, went down to the stock exchange, and spent all of it on Chilean blue-chip companies: Mining companies, chemical companies, paper companies, and so on. The stock were selling for nothing€”less than penny stock€”because of the disastrous policies of the Allende government.

2010-08-31: Headlines

• Columbia Daily Tribune: Ferguson appeal is denied 2010-08-31

  An appeal by convicted murderer Ryan Ferguson was defeated Tuesday by the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District, but a habeas corpus review still is possible.

2010-08-30: Headlines

• Times Record News: Matter of Record (Aug. 30) 2010-08-30

  Castillo, Carlos Antonio, Wilbarger County, Chapter 13, Date Filed Aug. 19, Case No. 10-70378. | Christian, Sharon Lynne, Wichita County, Chapter 13, Date Filed Aug. 19, Case No. 10-70379. | McParland, James Standish, Wichita County, Chapter 13, Date Filed Aug. 19, Case No. 10-70380. | Orr, Arthur George, Wichita County, Chapter 13, Date Filed Aug. 19, Case No. 10-70381.

• Leagle.com: McBRIDE v. WOODS 2010-08-30

  JEFFREY WOODS, Respondent. | Civil Action No. 06-CV-10170. | United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division. | BERNARD A. FRIEDMAN, Senior District Judge.

• The Daily Evergreen: Glenn Beck fails to impress at DC rally 2010-08-30

  Fox News Commentator Glenn Beck led a rally on Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights rally at the same location. Beck preached a message of faith, hope and charity, claiming that America has been led down a crooked path.

• Irish Times: Spoof movies: You couldnt make it up. Or could you? 2010-08-30

  The knowing, fake-film phenomenon has been around for quite a while, but they are now starting to morph into mainstream movie...

• Southwest Riverside News Network: Execution date set for murderer of Riverside teen 2010-08-30

  A Sept. 29 execution date was set today for a man who raped and murdered a Riverside teenager nearly 30 years ago. | Brown grabbed 15-year-old Susan Jordan in October 1980, as she walked along Victoria Avenue on her way to Arlington High School in Riverside, and raped and murdered the teenager. | Brown had been paroled from state prison just four months earlier for the 1977 rape of a 14-year-old girl.

• Hindustan Times: Man charged for kidnapping son wants bigamy complaint quashed 2010-08-30

  Bunty Chhug, who is facing charges for kidnapping his five-year-old son from his first wife€™s custody in November 2008, has landed himself in another criminal case for bigamy filed by his second wife€™s first husband. | The high court asked the state government to reply to Chhug€™s petition by September 2. | Despite not having legally separated from his first wife, Priti, Chhug married one Nisha Sachdev on June 1, 2008.

• Leagle.com: JONES v. KELLER 2010-08-30

  ALVIN KELLER, Secretary of the Department of Correction, and SUSAN R. WHITE, Administrator of New Hanover Correctional Center, Respondents. | Supreme Court of North Carolina. | Filed August 27, 2010. | Staples S. Hughes, Appellate Defender, and Katherine Jane Allen, Benjamin Dowling-Sendor, Daniel R. Pollitt, and Daniel K. Shatz, Assistant Appellate Defenders, for petitioner-appellee. | Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Tiare B.

• Valley News: Prosecutors seek execution date 2010-08-30

  The Valley News - RIVERSIDE - Prosecutors will ask a judge today to set an execution date for a man convicted and sentenced to death in 1982 for the rape and murder of a Riverside teenager.

• The Hindu: Geeta Johri never shared information with us: DGP 2010-08-30

  Initially reluctant to react to the observations of Ms. Johri in her curative petition to the Supreme Court ascribing the clandestine role of Andhra Pradesh police in the encounter, Mr. Girish Kumar told journalists at a police function here on Sunday that he was not in a position to deny or contradict or support the statement of the Gujarat cadre IPS officer who headed the investigation when it was carried out by police of her State.