Human rights lawyer (US); email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Dorset, England
Joined December 2010
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True too that great comedy existed for a while @JohnCleese until formerly great PWM comedians decided to take up saying fatuous things. (Thats Privileged White Male - like me, tho I doubt I rank among the comic greats!!)
Injustice! Spare a thought for 86yo Marita Maharaj here in Bridport: 40yrs ago today Kris was arrested & later put on death row. She knew he was innocent as she was with him at the time the Moo Youngs were murdered in Dupont Plaza Room 1215 penguin.co.uk/books/413678/i…
Urgent! If a kind Arabic reading someone out there wants to help me reuniting some of the 5704 prisoners rendered to Baghdad by the US (including 1500 juveniles!) I need help converting an Arabic prisoner list to English. Plz email me on [email protected] THX!
After the CIA tortured all the Guantanamo 9/11 "High Value Detainees" for years, & after the FBI tried to use 'Clean Teams' to get uncoerced statements, the military court judges have now thrown out ALL the confessions & the military is 0-for-5 nytimes.com/2026/10/07/us/po…
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Typical day for Fla Gov DeSantis & his death penalty ambitions: William Thompson (50yrs on Death Row) stayed due to dementia; James Robertson (in prison 46 yrs) was so deterred that he killed his cellmate to get executed eu.heraldtribune.com/story/n…
The UK really does need to look closely at our jury system and, rather than abolish much of it, make it much stronger...
The Myth and Promise of the U.K. Jury Trial
How do our #jury protections compare with those in the U.S.? Professor @CliveSSmith examines impartiality, jury selection, challenges to bias, and post-trial juror inquiry.
Watch more: gres.hm/myth-jury
#law #uslaw #uklaw
Frankly some people who are American by birth (DJT) do not appreciate what they should really cherish; some of us who actively chose to be American recognize that the Bill of Rights is precious (especially the First Amendment), protecting those who need it...
This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.
The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.
The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
Christa Pike horrendous botch is hardly accidental: NYT reports that the new TN protocol did away with "the requirement that execution teams practice inserting an IV line." nytimes.com/2026/10/10/us/po…
Gotta love it: study reveals that 87% of UK ‘Christian Nationalists’ don’t go to church theguardian.com/world/2026/o… Their uniting faith is their fabulously ignorant hatred of Muslims
Exceptional explanation by Dr Joel Zivot why what was done to Christa Pike was not surprising but medically predictable yet many think they should do it again medpagetoday.com/opinion/unc… Madness is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different result
Read this and weep if you support capital punishment: The conservative UK @Telegraph discusses the deranged Pete Hegseth & his deranged idea for a public firing squad for the wheelchair bound erstwhile US Major Hasan telegraph.co.uk/gift/0dfde21…
This saggy butt pants poem is now by a Nobel laureate!! poetryfoundation.org/poems/1… Courtesy @cori_crider but really Anne Carson
Anne Carson once wrote a poem that described my ‘saggy butt pants’ (I never actually checked!). I’m so pleased to be associated with a well earned Nobel prize winner. theguardian.com/books/2026/o… she & Currie have done so much good in the world!
Not deterred by the Christa Pike fiasco Texas executed an intellectually disabled man last night apnews.com/article/texas-exe… (but then neither is anyone deterred by their pointless & barbaric death penalty, murder rates still riding high, TX rate 6x UK)
I file my US taxes & it's simple. Boris only had to pay 'lots' of tax because he made more than the $130,000 threshold. If the Mega-Wealthy want to give up their British passports, let them. They can stand in the long line at Heathrow, be barred from cushy ennoblement, etc.
Because like defenestrated liar born in and taxed by the USA dom Brits like @BorisJohnson they'd just give up their American/British citizenship to avoid paying tax to their country of birth &or citizenship
😯 wait ... I have a cunning plan
Hard to see why the Uk doesn’t tax non-dom Brits regardless of domicile like the US does theguardian.com/news/2026/oc…
In 1946 Willie Francis (16) was strapped into Louisiana's electric chair ("Gruesome Gertie"); cried "I'm n-n-not dying" from beneath the leather hood when the current was not strong enough; the Supreme Court let them try again in 1947. I hope they'll be less barbaric now...
@CliveSSmith after rommel broom failed execution his appeal under double jepordy failed as the poison did not enter the bloodstream. In christa's case some must have. Is this something you would have used in appeal going forward news.sky.com/story/killer-wh…
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“If only one could seriously wish #ImranKhan a happy birthday today; perhaps if the barbarians who hold him would unlock the door…”
- @CliveSSmith
#FreeImranKhan
