Re: The Virginia Division of Legislative Services’ brief on 2013 Session: General Assembly Issues

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Actual Innocence
The General Assembly may see legislation
related to actual innocence, when a convicted
felon claims innocence based on evidence,
unknown or unavailable at the time of conviction,
that proves innocence. In 2004, the
General Assembly expanded the law to allow a
felon to submit non-DNA evidence, such as
fingerprints, ballistics, witnesses, and recanted
testimony. In the 2012 Session, several bills to
ease the standards related to actual innocence
narrowly failed in committee. The Virginia Bar
Association and the Office of the Attorney
General support removing the current limit that
allows filing only one writ per conviction and
“creating a reasonable doubt” vs. “proving
beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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Cooch CAN’T get out of the way.. The LAW has to be followed. Cooch CAN help expedite THAT process. idiot.

“Indiscriminately” and “for no reason” suggest a total lack of judicial review and/or a lack of administrative review.

The courts do accept cases. NDAA and the EO issued by the Obama admin requires periodic administrative review.

Normal time-lines for VI A/s “the right to a speedy and public trial” are blurred. However, “Indiscriminately” and “for no reason” is a serious stretch given documented court oversight.

I agree with the primary point all of you are making. That said, the link below takes you to a description of what obama did in the last moments of 2011. In my opinion, obama has expanded police/military powers to include snatching willy wonka off the corner of Jefferson and Campell without charges, and hold him indefinitely….provided that the powers that be believe that the snatchee is suspiciously involved in a terrorist plot. And I note…there’s lots a wiggle room there. do ya trust the gov’mint?

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/with-reservations-obama-signs-act-to-allow-detention-of-citizens/

Here we go again. Yes, the court can find you innocent… yes, “innocent.” Dan mentions it right in the article: “…the individual must appeal to the higher courts for a “writ of actual innocence.””

Comment by Leon — November 17, 2012 @ 9:37 am

Perhaps we’ve been moving too fast for you. The NDAA, regardless of year, is NOT an Executive Order. You’ve been yakking about an EO from Obama. We want a link, buddy. Because of your history here of spouting off complete and total b.s., you have zero credibility. Bold claims require bold evidence, and all we require is a link to this alleged EO.

You don’t have one. If you did, you wouldn’t have been able to resist shoving it down our throats long ago. Instead, you squawked a talking point (without actually comprehending the subject at hand) from one of your handlers and now realize that you have nothing to back it up. So you want us to do your homework for you. Guess what? I did, and you still come up wanting.

Section 1021 of the NDAA for FY 2012 – (a) Congress affirms that the authority of the President to use all necessary and appropriate force pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force . . . includes the authority for the Armed Forces of the United States to detain covered persons . . . pending disposition under the law of war.

Subsection (b) explains to whom this is applicable. Nothing has changed, man. Whether you are a citizen or not, and long before 9-11-01, if you were suspected of terrorism against the US, you could be held indefinitely. This is the first time in the decades that the US has been doing this that the language is actually codified. Still, it’s not new. Just because you’re just now finding out about it doesn’t make it any more or less tragic; it just makes you uninformed.

(c) explains that suspects can be held until the end of hostilities. Again, there is no change from the previous NDAA and none of this is new.

(d)…Nothing in this section is intended to limit or expand the authority of the President or the scope of the Authorization for Use of Military Force. (emphasis added) Do you see that, Leon? Read it again – slowly. Let it sink in.

(e)…Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect existing law or authorities relating to the detention of United States citizens, lawful resident aliens of the United States, or any other persons who are captured or arrested in the United States.

You really haven’t read any of this act, have you? Your masters told you to jump and jump you did. Don’t be a fool, Leon. As much as the Dems may be pulling the wool over the eyes of their constituency, your Repubs have been doing it for just as long. They refer to people like you as useful idiots. You just take whatever Mama Bird regurgitates in your mouth and pass it on down the line. Try being a part of the solution for once instead of the problem.

Wake up, Neo. The Matrix has you.

I’m with you on rendition. Unfortunately, our current and former potuses aren’t with us.

is Cooch following the law?

When you read the entirety of the article, and the Attorney General’s Statement which you provided in your hit piece, you will see that both Cooch and McDonnell will do what they can to expedite the process.

If you want to change the law, there is a way to try and do that.

But, nah, you and your lunch-line partner davie would prefer to falsely slander Cooch. Yeah boy, that’s gonna do Mr. Montogmery, and others like him, a whole lot of good.

You and davie are doing nothing more exploiting the sad situation for your own amusement.

Let’s start the bidding at $5000 a day. That means that in 11 days we could wipe out the $55000 that he poketed from the impostor Bobby Thompson, or whatever his name was.