kudos to Craig Smith for keeping up with this sick Wendy McCaw story
oh, I get it..Wendy fired all those people because they were trying to control the content of the paper... buy the judges and buy
the weenie judges:
Judges Richard R. Clifton and Milan D. Smith Jr. a Morman, both appointees of President George W. Bush, said the journalists organized within the Teamsters "to block or limit the influence of the owner and publisher of the News-Press over the content of the news sections of the paper and to focus that authority in the employees themselves, as reporters and editors."In a dissenting opinion, Judge Michael D
more shenanigans from these judges...overturning the death penalty for two killers...kind of like what Huckabee did with the cop killers!
Libberton was convicted of the 1981 murder of Juan Maya, whose beaten body was thrown down a mine shaft. Jones was convicted of bludgeoning Richard Weaver to death with a baseball bat and killing Weaver’s 7-year old daughter in 1992.
Joined by Judges Richard R. Clifton and Milan D. Smith Jr., Fletcher also rejected Libberton’s arguments based on an asserted undisclosed deal with a prosecution witness and the sentencing factors applied during the penalty phase.
However, the panel was persuaded by Libberton’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim, and Fletcher opined that Libberton had been diligent in pursing the evidence which had not been presented to the state court and was excluded by the district court.
"Given the wealth of evidence that Libberton was able to present to the state court despite the state court’s refusal to provide funds to aid in his investigation, and despite the lack of an evidentiary hearing in state court, Libberton was remarkably successful in finding and presenting evidence to state court," he said.
we don't like journalists... judge Clifton's obvious bias
In 2006, Clifton was one of the judges on the panel that upheld the imprisonment of journalist Josh Wolf
if it were not for injustice, men and women would not know justice
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