Overcriminalization

Whose Prosecution Is it Anyway?

Andrea Lyon | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Overcriminalization, Death Penalty, Rhode Island, National Debt, Federal Deficit, Debt Ceiling, Prosecution, Crime News
Andrea Lyon

There is a battle for state's rights in an unusual locale -- Rhode Island. It has to do with a man, Jason Pleau, who is charged with murder for gunning down a gas station manager outside a Woonsocket bank in that state.

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One Week in the Life of a Police State

John W. Whitehead | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Patriot Act, Adam Kokesh, Martin Luther King, Zero Tolerance, Memorial Day, Jose Guerena, SWAT Team, Overcriminalization, Camreta/Alford v. Greene, Police-Arrest-Dancers-at-Jefferson-Memorial, Police State, Parents Rights, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

One couple was simply holding each other in an affectionate embrace and swaying, only to be forcibly separated and handcuffed. "I'm not shutting up. You cannot shut me up," shouted one of the dancers.

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Legislature Restrains Its Compulsion to Overcriminalize Colorado

Mike Krause | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: House Bill 11-1239, Doug Wilson, Overcriminalization, Colorado State Public Defender, Heritage Foundation, Colorado Legislature, Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, Denver News
Mike Krause

The Colorado legislature has taken a modest step towards restraining its penchant for overcriminalizing the lives of Coloradans. Let's hope it makes us all a little bit freer from an often overweening state.

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Heritage Foundation Slams Anti-Child Rape Bill As "Overcriminalization"

Media Matters Action Network | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Heritage Foundation, Prevention and Deterrence of Crimes Against Children Act of 2009, Rape, Overcriminalization, Sex Trafficking, H.R. 3513, Politics News

By implying stricter penalties on child sex offenders is an example of Big Government overreaching its authority in order to punish "trivial conduct,"...

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