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View More News“This is a case about swinging dicks,” wrote Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in March. “You may think that swinging dicks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. You’re not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa—some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing.” VanDyke was dissenting from the 9th Circuit’s decision not to revisit…
When Paul St. Louis voted as a juror in 2017 to convict Frederick Turner for his role in a methamphetamine dealing ring, St. Louis had no idea that prosecutors would stack the charges in such a way that Turner, a first-time offender, received a 40-year mandatory minimum sentence. The judge presiding over the trial declared Turner’s sentence “excessive” and “wrong,” but had no choice but to impose it. Less than a year later, Turner, 38, was found dead in his cell at a high-security federal prison in Colorado. Ever since, St. Louis has been haunted by Turner’s death, and the…
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