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Another reason to avoid hamburger meat

Don’t read this while eating.

There’s a company in South Dakota (Beef Products, Inc. One of its plants is depicted above. It looks like a factory in a Terry Gilliam movie) that, eight years ago, decided to take beef scraps that had previously been thought fit only for pet food or making into [...]

Open Thread: What are your new year’s plans?

Unusually, mine are slightly in flux. What are you folks up to?

Will do!

Sign from the Federal Pentitiary in Illinois where some of the Guantanamo prisoners will be taken. H/t TalkingPoints.

Reports on the West Memphis 3 case from CNN and elsewhere

Back in October, I linked to a New York Times story about questions being raised in the “West Memphis 3″ case. CNN had a long story the other day about the case.

[R]ecent developments — including new eyewitness statements and DNA evidence from the defense — have uprooted her faith in those prosecutions. Once a staunch believer that the teens were guilty, now she says the teens accused of killing her son in the West Memphis 3 deserve a new trial.

“I wanted to believe in our justice system,” said Hobbs, now 45. She moved to Blytheville, Arkansas, shortly after the 1993 trial. “But time heals all wounds, and you start looking at things differently.”

Her public change of heart has been supported by new evidence presented by the defense over the past few years. In 2007, DNA and forensic evidence tests revealed no physical evidence at the crime scene that linked the three teens to murders. The evidence was presented to the state.

Furthermore, DNA that might belong to two other men was found in the knot used to tie Christopher.

One of the men is Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of Stevie, the defense says. In 1993, such advanced DNA testing had not been available, attorneys said.

…Three eye witnesses, who resided next to one of the victims, filed affidavits in October with the Arkansas Supreme Court. The witnesses said they saw the second-graders with Terry Hobbs the night before the bodies were found by police.

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Oxford bars come and go…

Is this a sign that the town has finally exceeded its saturation point for bars? Two newish bars have closed in the last month– the Bad Boyz Pizza place out on West Jackson (how many ill-starred businesses have been in that place? Pizza Inn. Something else. Don Panchos, which I miss. El Charo succeeded [...]

Mississippi Litigation Review speculates about the Fifth Circuit vacancy

His list starts with Justice Graves and goes on from there

Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Winston Kidd, Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Denise Owens, former Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Robert Gibbs, Jackson attorney Doug Minor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Felicia Adams, and Circuit Court Judge Margaret Carey-McRae.

He notes that Judge Kidd seems to be [...]

More about why I think liability may resolve Double Quick

Will Bardwell responded to my hunch that the Supreme Court may well not even get to the caps issue in the Double Quick case– he thinks they will get to it, because of the importance of the issue. In saying that, he leaves me wondering whether he understood why I think what I think.

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More notes on Double Quick: Effective Assistance of Amicus

The most effective intellectual energy in the Double Quick briefs as far as I’m concerned is on the liability issue. The plaintiff was shot in the Double Quick parking lot, and the question is whether there was evidences the violence was foreseable under the Mississippi Supreme Court’s premises liability cases.

Double Quick makes the [...]

Frisby lawyer to Clarion Ledger: “case is about to take a dramatic turn”

Saturday there was an article about the sealing of the file in Eaton v. Frisby, which is one of the two cases where Ed Peters was apparently secretly hired (by plaintiff Eaton Corp. and/or its lawyers) to influence Judge DeLaughter (the other being Wilson v. Scruggs). There’s an interesting “watch this space” heads up [...]

NMC wrote on 1:23 am, May 19, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 15th and 16th: Champion’s Hill
In comments, above, Anderson casts aspersions on Sherman's memoir, and I suggest that it was written after the huge success of Grant's. Tonight, I've been looking back at Edmund Wilson's book Patrioti ..

NMC wrote on 10:08 pm, May 17, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 17th-19th: Big Black River and tightening the noose on Vicksburg
Ben, I read and enjoyed John's book, and can recommend it for folks interested in prosecutor's war stories in this part of the world. John's a really good story-teller. My mom is write now working thr ..

Ben wrote on 9:19 pm, May 17, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 17th-19th: Big Black River and tightening the noose on Vicksburg
Since it won't interefere with any of the other comments in this thread, lemme drop a good word for a book I'm reading and enjoying now: From Midnight to Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Pro ..

thusbloggedanderson wrote on 6:07 pm, May 17, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 17th-19th: Big Black River and tightening the noose on Vicksburg
It's really good, Ben. One of those why-didn't-I-read-this-sooner books. My wife says she is descended from Grant, but that I am not supposed to tell people, due to her shame. ..

Ben wrote on 5:27 pm, May 17, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 17th-19th: Big Black River and tightening the noose on Vicksburg
Thank you for posting the series of excerpts from Grant's "Memoirs." I enjoyed them greatly. As a knuckleheaded Southerner, I have always found or created some lame excuse for not reading that publica ..

Vera Lawrence wrote on 10:12 pm, May 16, 2013 about While on the subject of Mississippi true crime stories involving hit men…
I worked with his stepdaughter at the time of his death...She is a real piece of Cake...But I guess you have to consider the type of life style she was brought up in...she is sad little person...about ..

thusbloggedanderson wrote on 7:08 pm, May 16, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 15th and 16th: Champion’s Hill
Readin in Woodson about McClernand, and I bet Grant wished he had not only shown up at the battle, but led a charge on an artillery battery. What a prick. ... Woodworth. Whatever. I'm not looking at t ..

JL wrote on 12:49 pm, May 16, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 15th and 16th: Champion’s Hill
McClernand was a poltical general who had raised his own Corps in the Mid-west. He was a very good friend of the president less so to Grant and Halleck. Sherman even stole his corps away from him for ..

Ben wrote on 10:55 am, May 16, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 15th and 16th: Champion’s Hill
TBA: your google query took me straight to Sherman's sharp letter to McClernand ... and more. Many thanks. And while googling for more info, I stumbled across this event marking the 150th anniversary ..

thusbloggedanderson wrote on 10:15 am, May 16, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 15th and 16th: Champion’s Hill
Woodworth's "Nothing but Victory" (which, sigh, I need to read) notes McClernand's bragging press release that led to his relief, and quotes Grant's note to McClernand, which given the remarks on Gran ..

Ben wrote on 9:32 am, May 16, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 15th and 16th: Champion’s Hill
McLernand is setting himself up to be relieved. I see it coming. I've known a few McLernands. They have a few things in common. They've risen through the ranks for reasons no one fully understands ... ..

Tom Freeland (@NMissC) wrote on 9:52 pm, May 15, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 15th and 16th: Champion’s Hill
No doubt, Anderson. ..

thusbloggedanderson wrote on 9:32 pm, May 15, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 15th and 16th: Champion’s Hill
Both those Keegan books are quite good; his recent output, far less so. ..

Tom Freeland (@NMissC) wrote on 9:17 pm, May 15, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 15th and 16th: Champion’s Hill
Well, Ben, you're about to read him, justifiably, relieve McLernand of his command. I'll be interested in your reaction to what he says about that. He's foreshadowed that in a big way describing how M ..

thusbloggedanderson wrote on 9:12 pm, May 15, 2013 about Grant’s Memoirs, the Vicksburg Campaign May 15th and 16th: Champion’s Hill
All true Ben, except that I seem to recall his being a bit waspish about Halleck. Understandably. ..

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Reports on the West Memphis 3 case from CNN and elsewhere

Oxford bars come and go…

Mississippi Litigation Review speculates about the Fifth Circuit vacancy

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More notes on Double Quick: Effective Assistance of Amicus

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