Today's news reports a 6/3 US Supreme Court ruling and I agree with the minority on this one.
Here is the link to the news story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-says-double-jeopardy-does-not-protect-against-murder-retrial/2012/05/24/gJQAnXlznU_story.html
Here is a link to the text of the ruling itself:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1320.pdf
Basically, a guy in Arkansas was accused of Murder and the Jury Forewoman announced in open court that the Jury was unanimous against a capital or first degree murder verdict. They then went back in and deliberated for 31 minutes and could not agree on manslaughter so the judge declared a mistrial.
This is the most unconservative iterpretation of the constitution ever by a US Supreme Court.
Up until this point, I had always felt good about this particular panel of judges but now I am not so sure. How they could collectively get something this wrong is beyond me.
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