{"id":972,"date":"2013-03-14T23:06:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T04:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2013-03-14T23:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T04:09:43","slug":"the-presumption-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2013\/03\/the-presumption-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presumption of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all those who wish to give more power to the state.<\/p>\n<p>From Ken White at <a href=\"http:\/\/popehat.com\/\" title=\"Popehat\">Popehat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Popehat\/~3\/2QK6AX7yi_g\/\"><p>\n  <!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><br \/>\n  <!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>Armando Saldate, Jr. had been adjudged to be a liar on four occasions and a lawbreaker on five others.<\/p>\n<p>No rational person would accept his word as an adequate basis to do <em>anything<\/em> of importance \u2014 let alone as a basis to take a life.<\/p>\n<p>But we do not speak of rational people today. We speak of the criminal justice system. And the criminal justice system is choked with people it has thoroughly captured \u2014 people irrationally convinced of, or indifferent to, the credibility of people like Armando Saldate, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because Armando Saldate, Jr. was a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The State of Arizona, based on almost nothing but Saldate&#8217;s word, has been trying to kill Debra Jean Milke for nearly a quarter-century. Today the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said they can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popehat.com\/?feed-stats-post-id=17713\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"display: none;\" \/> [From <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Popehat\/~3\/2QK6AX7yi_g\/\"><cite>The Presumption of Truth<\/cite><\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please, read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all those who wish to give more power to the state. From Ken White at Popehat: Armando Saldate, Jr. had been adjudged to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-fG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}