secret prosecutions

[eub]

They're not only for alleged terrorism (Mohamed Kamel Bellahouel's case).

Reporters¹ Committee for Freedom of the Press amicus brief (PDF file):

In recent months, it has become evident that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida maintains a dual, separate docket of public and non-public cases. [...]
In Ochoa's case, the existence of secret proceedings emerges from clues in the publicly available information and from documents that were later unsealed after being kept secret for months or years.
[...]
Ochoa’s own case has been litigated largely in secret, despite his objections.
[...]
As Ochoa's brief describes, many of these docket entries were sealed in violation of accepted First Amendment standards and Local Rule 5.4 of the Rules of the Southern District. According to Ochoa, no temporal limitations were placed on the sealings, no public explanation for secrecy was given, and no less restrictive alternatives, such as redaction, were explored.

¹ who suppressed their apostrophe?

Comments

[cheesepuppet.livejournal.com]

Which I just realized makes me sound like a terrible elitist schmo, "Oh yes, my GIANT OVERWHELMING LIST OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ON MY FRIENDS PAGE, it's SO out of control, DAHHHHLING".

Which is not what I mean at all. There are just a lot of people who write like I do (with every waking breath it seems) and then there are the people who write short and sweet, and it's like trying to find the yummy black jelly beans in the jar.

Or something. It's been a hard night. Forgive me.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I hope your night has been okay since. -- Just checked your journal, and now I know what you meant by "hard". eeeg. *fuzzy blue thoughts* to you.

I'm not offended one bit, but I would forgive you, and you can keep this as a coupon for any future use.

I think elitist would be "mmmmmh, your score on the admissions test is not very impressive at all, I must say, but as I am feeling magnanimous I will add you to my friends list on probation, and we'll soon see if you can exceed my -- low -- expectations."

I'd like to write more and more often. I'm so slooow at it.

(You can have my black jelly beans. I used to like them, but then we had a whole porcelain-rabbit-full and I got very tired of them.)

[cheesepuppet.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm doing better now.

[cuts coupon] I'm so saving this.

Yeah, you should write more. Especially about fungus, which I know nothing about, but which I find oddly fascinating. You have a much bigger fungus-oriented brain than anyone I know. You know what I mean.

(see why I need these coupons?)

[eub.livejournal.com]

It is good to hear when you have an easier day.

I know what you mean. The prefungal cortex, I think they call it.

(Actually, I don't remember seeing you write anything in an LJ entry that I'd expect to need forgiveness from anyone. But a stockpile of coupons never hurts.)