Durham native Loretta Lynch was confirmed yesterday as the nation’s first female African-American Attorney General. I believe that she is only the second female Attorney General, after Janet Reno. WRAL has the basics here. In other news: North Carolina escapee back in custody after more than 40 years. Clarence Moore escaped from prison in Henderson County in 1972, the year I was born. He was serving an 11-year sentence for larceny. This week, he surrendered himself to a Kentucky sheriff’s office, apparently because he had health problems and could not obtain medical care without legal identification. WRAL has the story here. Marathon Bomber penalty phase begins. As a runner, I was interested in this week’s Boston Marathon, in which UNC graduate Shalane Flanagan finished ninth. As a lawyer, I am interested in the penalty phase of the capital case against convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. According to this Boston Globe story, the prosecution has just rested its case. The defense case is expected to take several weeks. Conviction of Barry Bonds overturned. The Ninth Circuit has reversed former baseball player Barry Bonds’ conviction for obstruction of justice. The conviction was based on the italicized portion of a statement (by Bonds) made in response to a question (by a federal prosecutor) during an investigative grand jury proceeding regarding a steroid ring with which Bonds was allegedly involved: Q. Did [your trainer] ever give you anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with? A. I’ve only had one doctor touch me. [...]
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