Reflections on Media and Politics
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The public image of criminal justice is the trial: the courtroom, the jury of twelve, the evidence tested by argument, the verdict delivered after deliberation. It is the image en…
MHB Admin · July 7, 2026
There is a genre of court case with names that read like absurdist theater: United States v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency . State v. One 1990 Toyota . The defendant in these cases is…
MHB Admin · June 8, 2026
The media obsesses over shoplifting while the far larger theft — employers stealing wages from workers — goes uncounted, unpunished, and unnamed as crime.
MHB Admin · June 4, 2026