The General Assembly is gearing up for the long session, and the AOC has a new lobbyist: former Rep. Tom Murry of Morrisville will be the AOC’s “chief legal counsel for governmental affairs,” according to this News and Observer story. Murry is a Republican and an attorney, and his main priority likely will be securing more resources for the courts. In other news: A different perspective on European prisons. Periodically, the media runs stories about the cushy nature of some European prisons. But apparently they’re not all that way. This post at Sentencing Law & Policy reports that many European prisons are older facilities with significant crowding and repair problems. In one, inmates have no running water and “relieve themselves in a bucket that can go unemptied for 48 hours”; in another, there are “significant, easily visible vermin infestations.” One warden describes conditions at his own prison as “medieval.” Public defender won’t be charged after bad arrest. I noted last week that a California public defender had been arrested – apparently for some variant of obstructing justice – after asking an officer not to take pictures of her client in a courthouse hallway. I also noted that it didn’t sound like obstruction to me. According to this local story, no criminal charges will be filed against the lawyer, and the attorney has filed a disciplinary complaint against the officer who arrested her. Months before trial, Aurora theater shooting case has cost more than $5 million. Yahoo! News reports here that “[t]he [...]
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