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The American Psychiatric Association’s legal brief in his favour notes that neuroscience has shown that during puberty, areas of the brain associated with impulse control and risk evaluation are undeveloped. It concludes that “condemning an immature, vulnerable, and not-yet-fully-formed adolescent to die in prison is a constitutionally disproportionate punishment.”
Quantel Lotts was 14 when he stabbed his step-brother Michael Barton to death, in what began as a play fight. The dead boy’s mother has forgiven him, but the state of Missouri allows no such leniency, having sentenced him to life without parole on a charge of premeditated murder. In several states, there is no minimum age limit at which children can be tried as adults.
Because Sara Kruzan’s father was in jail, she was raised by her drug-addicted mother. By her early teens, she had been coerced into working as a prostitute. The abuse continued for three years, until she killed her pimp. She too was sentenced to life in prison with no hope of being set free.

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The pair won a landmark billboard case in Oregon in 2006. After spending 12 years fighting that state’s billboard law Alan Herson persuaded the Oregon’s Supreme Court to throw it out. Herson claims San Carlos’’s ban is politically motivated:
The Bay Area is a liberal place, and liberals tend not to like free speech put up by other people. I have a hunch if that sign said ‘Support Nancy Pelosi,’ it would be up by now. They hate Palin. They hate her more than anything.
But it feels more like the Hersons are pimping Palin’s picture to get rich both from suing the city and then turning their political billboard  into a profit-making venture.  If the Hersons win their suit against the city, Sarah’s huge smiling visage could legally be replaced by commercial advertising. Said Alan Herson:

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When asked whether “[t]he rich, the corporations, Republicans in general, may still regard a highly publicized VISTA program and your volunteers as a threat,” he replied, “I assume they will, and they ought to; if they don’t, then I’m not doing my job.”
Sounding like ACORN founder Wade Rathke, Brown added that VISTA “ought not to be just a bunch of low-paid social workers. It ought to be people helping to get themselves together to build new institutions.”
Meanwhile, the fact that Brown, who may yet again be governor, has a close working relationship with ACORN is important because he is investigating the group. ACORN has been in hot water since September when undercover videos surfaced showing its employees in California and elsewhere bending over backwards to counsel clients to break the law. In the videos filmmaker James O’Keefe portrayed a pimp and Hannah Giles portrayed a prostitute.

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… I’ve known since I moved to California that it’s illegal under state law to tape a phone conversation without getting permission,” Democratic political consultant Garry South said. “What I don’t know is how the dynamic inside the attorney general’s office contributed to this fiasco.”
Two: Now that South’s former client, Ess Eff Mayor Gavin Newsom, has dropped out of the governor’s race, Brown is likely to be the Democratic nominee.
Three: Brown and his deputies have demonstrated one standard for themselves, but a different standard for others.
In September, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Brown to investigate the community activist group ACORN – in light of secretly videotaped conservations between ACORN staffers and conservative activists James O’Keefe III, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, who posed as a pimp and prostitute looking for ACORN’s help in getting housing while breaking the law.

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California’s attorney general and prospective Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Jerry Brown, is trapped in a political cage from which there will be no easy escape. When it comes to secretly recorded conversations, and a national scandal involving the housing advocacy group ACORN, Brown is going to find himself in trouble no matter what he does.
Brown’s office is investigating two conservative filmmakers, James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles, who last summer posed as a pimp and a prostitute and secretly videotaped employees at ACORN offices giving tax advice that was highly unethical if not illegal. Some of those offices were in California, which forbids secret electronic recordings of “confidential communication.” Liberal activists are expecting Brown to throw the book at the filmmakers — and conservatives are simultaneously pillorying him for a separate incident in which he gave his own spokesman a pass after he appeared to be breaking the same law. Although the controversy might well haunt Brown during his campaign for governor, the two cases are actually very different from a legal standpoint.

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Former Brown spokesman Scott Gerber secretly recorded six interviews – prohibited by California law – and was already exonerated by Brown’s own assistant attorney general. But GOP officials publicly excoriated Attorney General Brown for not asking someone outside his office to investigate. Tuesday, Brown responded by asking Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley to investigate.
Brown’s hand was forced by other event, as well. He is investigating possible violations of state privacy laws in a sting operation on ACORN. Avoiding the investigation into Mr. Gerber would have presented a potentially damaging public relations dilemma.
If Brown charged those who secretly filmed ACORN, he’d be open to claims of hypocrisy for not charging his own assistant. If he didn’t charge the filmmakers, he would have been criticized by grass-roots liberals and supporters of ACORN, who are angry that the US House recently cut federal funding after the videos caused a national outcry.
The videos show ACORN employees counseling the filmmakers – who are pretending to be a pimp and a prostitute – how to avoid paying taxes.

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Republicans have argued that Brown can’t objectively look into a case with his self-interest at stake.
“The question is, who’s the right person to look into this?” said Tom Del Beccaro, the vice chairman of the state Republican Party and former chairman of the Contra Costa County Republican Party. “Am I certain there’s serious wrongdoing? No, but it’s incumbent on the top cop to be above suspicion. He should demonstrate there is no there there, and you have to have somebody else look into it. If he doesn’t, those questions will dog him.”
Republicans have essentially dared Brown to sweep the audio recording case under the rug while he continues to investigate undercover videotaping by a pair of conservative filmmakers posing as a pimp and prostitute of the community group ACORN in San Diego and San Bernardino.

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WARRINGAH Council is considering a proposal for a brothel in Campbell Ave, Cromer, and local residents are not happy.
A group of residents, who did not wish to be named, say the proposed location within an industrial complex is too close to their homes as well as nearby schools.
They are also furious that only one side of Campbell Ave was notified by council and that they found out about the application after an anonymous person photocopied the council letter and dropped it in their letterboxes.
One Campbell Ave resident who has lived on the street for 45 years said they didn’t build their home for this to happen.
“Who would want to live next to one of these places,” she said.
“We don’t need that environment here, especially given there are two schools and the tennis centre nearby.”

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San Mateo County sheriff running for re-election despite brothel scandal
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Munks, who authorities said was found inside the brothel, issued a statement a few days later saying he believed he was going to a legitimate business for a massage and that neither he nor Bolanos broke the law.
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County supervisors declined to question Munks about the brothel incident, saying they have no business interrogating another elected official acting on his own time. But after Reps. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, and Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, criticized supervisors’ lack of response in April 2008, the panel created the framework for an ethics commission that could be summoned to investigate wrongdoing by elected officials.
Despite the bad publicity that followed Munks’ visit to the illegal brothel, running against an incumbent sheriff is still considered a daunting task in a county of more than 700,000 people.

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Beyond raw dollar figures, though, it’s tricky to compare game sales with movies or books or anything else. Most new games cost about 60 bucks; movies are usually around 10, plus a lot of people pre-order games, which pumps up launch figures. But let’s not be too much of a wet blanket; the game industry needs a hit badly; the recession has taken its toll.
Just like a lot of very popular games, “Modern Warefare 2″ does not arrive without controversy. Unlike the “Grand Theft Auto” series, “MW2″ has nothing to do with shooting at cops or beating up prostitutes. Instead you play as a terrorist. A terrorist mole, actually. As in, you’re a good guy who goes undercover with the bad guys for just one little level in order to learn their secrets, and to prove yourself you kinda sorta have to help them with a plot that involves killing civilians. Hrm. Not exactly “Wii Sports Resort.” You can skip the level if you want.

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