Monthly Archives: December 2009

End the year with a gift to Friends of Justice! In the final hours of 2009, I hope you’ll include Friends of Justice in your year-end giving.  If you haven’t already made a generous contribution to support our unique mission, … Continue reading →

Several readers have been asking about the current status of the Troy Davis case.  In August, the Supreme Court called for an evidentiary hearing in connection with Davis’s innocence claims and U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. was appointed to … Continue reading →

Sheriff Earl Patridge had a problem.  Seven black agitators, five of them beaten within an inch of their lives, were locked in his jailhouse.  It would take just one complaint and the feds would come sniffing around.  They always did.  Twelve hours after the … Continue reading →

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has been taking a lot of heat from his conservative colleagues for pardoning a cop-killer, but Radley Balko thinks Haley Barbour, the sitting governor of Mississippi, is the southern politician who needs to be called … Continue reading →

Shelby County DA Lynda Russell This is one of those stories that slipped past me.  Thanks to Friend of Justice, James Canup for bringing it to my attention.  AGB Authorities in the Deep East Texas town of Tenaha have been … Continue reading →

This Houston Chronicle piece reveals that “only seven judges in the last decade have faced formal disciplinary action as a result of the nation’s secretive misconduct review process. In that same period,” the article reports, ”citizens filed more than 6,000 formal … Continue reading →

Did you read my recent post about Fannie Lou Hamer’s religion, or the one I sent out yesterday about the vicious beating Hamer and her friends sustained in 1963?  If you didn’t read either piece it may have been because you didn’t see … Continue reading →

Steven Phillips, one of the several dozen men exonerated through the efforts of  the Texas Innocence, is suing two Texas attorneys.  According to Phillips’, Amarillo attorney Jeff Blackburn and Lubbock attorney Kevin Glasheen are claiming $1 million in legal fees from Phillips. Blackburn says its all a misunderstanding … Continue reading →

This post is part of a series about the plight of Curtis Flowers, a native of Winona, Mississippi who has been to trial five times on the same murder charges. Fannie Lou Hamer never recovered from the beating she suffered … Continue reading →