We support restitution for the victim to the fullest degree possible at the expense of the criminal or wrongdoer. We support institutional changes, consistent with full respect for the rights of the accused, which would permit victims to direct the prosecution in criminal cases. Activities which do not affect anyone but the actor have been criminalized by government on the basis of encoding a particular morality into law. Repeal all laws establishing criminal or civil penalties for the use of drugs. We oppose reduction of constitutional safeguards of the rights of the criminally accused. Cases must no longer be treated as "civil" strictly to avoid the due process protections of criminal law. Government must no longer be allowed to seize property for criminal offenses, prior to civil or criminal proceedings. Full restitution must be made for all loss suffered by persons arrested, indicted, tried, imprisoned, or otherwise injured in the course of criminal proceedings against them that do not result in their conviction. Police officers must be prohibited from using excessive force on the disorderly or the criminally accused, handing out what they may consider to be instant punishments on the streets, or using preventive detention and no-knock laws. The judicial system must be reformed to allow criminal defendants and civil parties to a court action a reasonable number of peremptory challenges to proposed judges, similar to their right under the present system to challenge a proposed juror. The present system of criminal law is based almost solely on punishment with little concern for the victim. Affirm the right of the victim to pardon the criminal or wrongdoer, barring threats to the victim for this purpose. In all cases to which the government is a party, the judge should be required to inform the jurors of their common law right to judge the law, as well as the facts, and to acquit a criminal defendant, and to find against the government in a civil trial, whenever they deem the law unjust or oppressive. We favor an end to the acceptance of criminal defenses based on "insanity" or "diminished capacity" which absolve the guilty of their responsibility. We further oppose court orders gagging news coverage of criminal proceedings -- the right to publish and broadcast must not be abridged merely for the convenience of the judicial system. As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.

In order to examine Moussaoui's computer, Justice Department approval was necessary in order for the Minneapolis FBI agents to obtain a criminal search warrant. Garcia-Orellana has previous criminal convictions for unauthorized use of a vehicle and for manufacturing or sale of a controlled substance. Immigration authorities deported 161,501 aliens on criminal and noncriminal charges last year and 63,706 aliens during the first three months of this year.

"Stop war criminal Blair's plan to steal your privacy - sign the petition" /. McGreevey was not implicated in the criminal complaint against Kushner. "He doesn't want to put his wife and family through a lengthy criminal proceeding or to jeopardize the future of the employees of Kushner Companies. His claims sparked the criminal investigation. In the past month alone, two of his fund-raisers, Charles Kushner and David D'Amiano, had been snared in separate federal criminal probes.

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