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• Congrats to Hurricanes on a great season

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  Tough way to go out, but what a fun ride.  ACC regular season champs.  ACC tourney champs.  Sweet 16.
  
  Meantime, the Chief Justice is a victim of credit card fraud.  First it was Justice Breyer who was a crime victim, and now Justice Roberts.  From the AP:
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• Jason Dimitris named county court judge.

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  He's a former AUSA.
  
  Rumpole and Captain have all of the details over at the Justice Building Blog. [...]
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• Rumpole still barking up the wrong tree with Scalia

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  Rumpole and I have long disagreed about Justice Scalia.  We've been debating his jurisprudence at least as far back as 2009. See also here.  Well, Scalia has proved Rumpole wrong again as Justice Scalia ruled in favor of the 4th Amendment yesterday in the Florida drug dog case,' [...]
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• RIP Anthony Lewis (UPDATED with Scalia opinion in favor of 4th Amendment)

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  He wrote Gideon’s Trumpet and covered the Supreme Court.  From the NY Times obit:
  
  

  As a reporter, Mr. Lewis brought an entirely new approach to coverage of the Supreme Court, for which he won his second Pulitzer, in 1963. “He brought context to the law,” said Ronald [...]

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• Monday notes

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  1.  Rand Paul: People Shouldn’t Smoke Pot, But They Shouldn’t Go To Jail for Non-Violent Drug Crimes (via Slate):
  
  Liberals are likely scratching their heads today, wondering how a man with whom they disagree on so many things could have uttered such sensible views when it comes to [...]
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• Go Crimson! Go Canes!

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  The first weekend of the tourney is the best weekend in sports. [...]
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• Your moment of zen

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  John Pacenti's federal court report.
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• Font issues

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  Not sure what happened with yesterday's post.  Sorry about that. 
  
  This is Rumpole's territory, but big ups to Phil Reizenstein for hanging a jury 8-4 for not guilty with a death qualified jury.  That doesn't happen every day of the week.  Dave Ovalle from the Herald has the' [...]
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• Justice Scalia during oral argument on Arizona voting law: "No problemo"

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  Yes, Justice Scalia lapsed into Spanglish during oral argument on the question of whether Arizona can require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections:
  
  
  

  JUSTICE SCALIA: You think "may require only" means shall require only? Is that -- is that your submission? "May require only" means [...]

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• Cert granted in United States v. Kaley

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  This is Howard Srebnick and Richard Strafer's case dealing with whether a defendant is entitled to a pretrial hearing to challenge forfeiture.  SCOTUSBlog has this quick summary:
  
  

   The Court also granted review on whether an individual faced with the forfeiture of property that may be the proceeds of [...]

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