Time: Sat Jul 05 05:07:17 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA02045; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 04:51:00 -0700 (MST) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA23095; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 04:50:51 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 04:50:51 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLF: Notice of Intent to Execute Citizen's Arrest Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <snip> > >>Good stuff on Reno. This lady is out of control and very evil! >> >>Darren >> [The Washington Times] [Investigative] >> [Image] >> >> Published in Washington, D.C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5am -- >> June 16, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.washtimes.com >> [(see thetext links at the bottom of the page)] >> [Image] >> >> [Image] Reno seeking more executions among white U.S. >> [Image] defendants >> [Image] ------------------------------------------------ >> [Image] By Frank J. Murray >> [Image] THE WASHINGTON TIMES >> ------------------------------------------------ >> [T] he Clinton administration's pursuit of >> racial diversity now includes making >> federal death row "look more like America." >> Attorney General Janet Reno's little-known >> affirmative action plan aims to end any >> appearance of race bias in punishing the >> cruelest federal criminals. >> . . . . Since imposing a policy whose stated >> purpose is nationwide "consistency and >> fairness," Miss Reno has tripled the rate at >> which whites charged with federal crimes were >> targeted for execution. >> . . . . Changes Miss Reno made since a Jan. 27, >> 1995, directive to U.S. attorneys include: >> >> * Taking out of prosecutors' hands entirely >> the decision on whether to request the >> death penalty at each trial, without >> regard to whether a prosecutor favors or >> opposes execution in that case. Until then >> any prosecutor could veto asking for a >> death sentence but needed approval to seek >> execution. >> * Ordering her "death penalty committees" to >> consider statistical evidence of past >> "racial discrimination" in administering >> the federal death penalty. >> * Requiring prosecutors to check off the >> race of defendants and victims -- "white, >> black, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native >> American, Alaska Native, Aleut" -- and >> confirm separately if either is Hispanic. >> Those data, on the form referring death >> cases for her decision, are earmarked for >> the Office of Policy and Legislation. >> >> . . . . Miss Reno promulgated the new plan even >> though Federal Bureau of Prisons statistics >> show that the last 34 prisoners put to death by >> the federal government between 1927 and 1963 >> included 27 whites, three blacks, two Indians, >> one Mexican and one whose ethnic and racial >> background are unknown. >> . . . . Far and away, most of the more than >> 3,000 convicts awaiting execution in America >> are state prisoners unaffected by Miss Reno's >> policies, which relate only to people charged >> with federal crimes. >> . . . . Asked how racial statistics ever are >> relevant to a defendant, Justice Department >> spokesman Joseph Krovisky said lawyers can >> present any information they want. "We'll >> listen to anything they may present to us, and >> we will evaluate it, but that doesn't >> necessarily mean we'll accept it," he said. >> . . . . Legal analysts for and against capital >> punishment see the possibility that recent >> death sentences could be upset by policies that >> responded to what Timothy McVeigh's attorney, >> Stephen Jones, calls a "thunderstorm of >> controversy" in Congress. >> . . . . They include Vivian Berger, assistant >> dean of Columbia University law school and >> longtime general counsel to the American Civil >> Liberties Union. >> . . . . She doubts the federal government would >> apply racial factors to decide whom to execute >> but said a process becomes questionable when it >> goes beyond collecting statistics to spotlight >> systemic bias. >> . . . . "I think this is meant to benefit a >> particular defendant, not what I was >> speculating would be the horrible result of >> some Justice Department functionary saying, >> 'Now we should prosecute some white defendant >> capitally because we haven't done any whites >> lately,'" Miss Berger said in an interview from >> Santa Fe, N.M. >> . . . . "It seems to me to be an invitation to >> do exactly the thing you're told you can't do >> -- consider race when you decide whether to >> seek the death penalty or not," said an >> assistant state attorney general with long >> experience in getting killers executed. >> . . . . The official said the process gives >> Miss Reno information local prosecutors always >> have. >> . . . . "It's certainly problematical at best, >> and it's certainly an area of the law where >> anything and everything is going to get jumped >> on," the assistant attorney general said, >> calling any explicit mention of race tough to >> explain in court. >> . . . . "It is a fair question why the racial >> data should be gathered concurrently with the >> case information," said David Bruck, a director >> of the federally financed Death Penalty >> Resource Council. >> . . . . "At the least it does require a U.S. >> attorney to consider the race of victims and >> defendants when he or she is considering a >> recommendation on death. It bears looking at," >> he said. >> . . . . The "thunderstorm," mentioned by Mr. >> Jones in seeking dismissal of McVeigh's >> indictment, blew up in mid-1994 during debate >> over the Racial Justice Act, a failed attempt >> to racially balance execution rates. >> . . . . Where state courts had discriminated on >> the basis of victims' race, the committee said, >> the federal disparity was founded on >> defendants' race. >> . . . . From the time the modern federal death >> penalty was authorized in 1988 until those >> congressional hearings six years later, four >> capital prosecutions of whites were included in >> 37 cases (11 percent). >> . . . . "If some redneck county in Texas had >> come up with figures like that, you'd have been >> down there wanting to know why," Rep. Craig >> Washington, Texas Democrat, lectured the >> Clinton Justice Department in 1994. >> . . . . The best outside estimate of actions >> since the attorney general imposed her new >> policies under congressional fire in January >> 1995 is that 17 whites were included among 55 >> capital defendants (31 percent), according to >> data from Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty >> Information Center. >> . . . . The Justice Department would not >> furnish data on the point, even though a stated >> purpose is to give such data to the media. No >> figures were available on how often the death >> sentence was waived under the balancing >> considerations. >> . . . . Among those sentenced to die by >> civilian federal courts since 1988, blacks >> dominate. One of the 12 civilians awaiting >> execution for federal crimes as of Friday is >> white. Nine are black, one is Asian and one is >> Hispanic. >> . . . . In the 1987 Warren McCleskey case from >> Georgia, the Supreme Court banned applying >> statistics on racial distribution in death >> penalty cases to any one prisoner. >> >>FRONT PAGE | POLITICS | OPINION | INVESTIGATIVE | INTERNATIONAL | BUSINESS | >> LETTERS | SUBSCRIBE >> Copyright © 1997 News World Communications, Inc. >> >> [Image] ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. 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