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Morning Links

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
  • This is certainly the most appropriately-named drug war operation I’ve seen in a while.
  • The French out-French their best cliches, as a 17-member committee spends 18 months coming up with an appropriately French translation for the term cloud computing.
  • The earth is cooling.
  • Racial tensions mount after a black Urbana-Champagne, Illinois 15-year-old was shot dead by police on Friday. Neighbors called the cops to report the kid and his friend breaking into a home. Turns out, they had permission to be at the house. More here.
  • Kentucky man declared innocent after serving nine years for a robbery and shooting.
  • This is strangely convincing.
  • The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in Alvarez v. Smith, a challenge to Illinois’ asset forfeiture law. My take on Alvarez here.

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    This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 9:31 am by Radley Balko and is filed under General Criminal Justice, General Drug War, Innocence. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

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