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For those that don’t know how a jury is selected in a criminal case in Montana (and in general terms in federal and state courts around the county) I will describe the process.�? First there is a group of people selected out of the driver’s license and voter rolls of the jurisdiction of the court.�?

Video #4: The Right to Remain Silent

It prohibits discrimination on the basis of hairstyle.�? California passed it last year and Connecticut is now the second state to follow their lead.�?

They were also the last state requiring a jury to be unanimous in order to convict someone of a crime. The article can be found here.

You can find the article here. Troubling this wasn’t the law before.

They deny it, but pretty much everyone believes they do so.�? You can read more about the lawsuit here.

Felony Murder, which is different than homicide, mitigated homicide or negligent homicide in that you can be held accountable for a homicide that someone else causes if its in the course of a commission of a felony offense by you and one or more other individuals. The simple example is if you are the getaway driver during a bank robbery and someone is killed while the others are robbing the bank.

And it is as nebulous as possible.�? Again civil forfeiture is easily abused and gives perverse incentives to the government without deterring crime.

But is does provide all sorts of perverse incentives for government agencies and agents.

A number of groups are trying to get the federal government to curtail the use of facial recognition.�? As much as I would like this to be successful, I don’t see it happening.�?