American Justice

Jailed for 2 Decades in Rabbi’s Death, Unjustly, Prosecutors Say
By Michael Powell and Sharon Otterman
March 20, 2013
...Mr. Ranta could walk free as early as Thursday. In the decades since a jury convicted him of murder, nearly every piece of evidence in this case has fallen away. A key witness told The New York Times that a detective instructed him to select Mr. Ranta in the lineup. A convicted rapist told the district attorney that he falsely implicated Mr. Ranta in hopes of cutting a deal for himself. A woman has signed an affidavit saying she too lied about Mr. Ranta’s involvement....

Maybe it is time to stop seeing victory and justice in imprisonment. Just a thought.

San Francisco Board of Supervisors, 1875

November 15th, 1875
Ordinance Prohibiting Opium-Smoking Dens
Section 1.
No person shall in the city or county of San Francisco keep or maintain or become an inmate* of or visit or shall in any way contribute to the support of any place, house or room where persons assemble for the purpose of smoking opium or inhaling the fumes of opium. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a period of not less than ten days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.