Three men from the Kansas City area are the same age and spent time together in the Lansing Correctional Facility. All three of these men are now free after a wrongful conviction. KU Law professor Alice Craig spoke to KVTV 5 News about one of the cases biggest flaws.
"After seeing policies the current administration is enacting in the U.S., Amii Castle felt she needed to take a stand to help University students by organizing an ACLU chapter on campus.
'I think students are yearning, and they are hungry for an organization like this,' she said. 'So I was pleasantly surprised at the response that I got.'"
Raj Bhala talks about Mohammed bin Salmon, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, and his new actions that are transforming the country. He argues that there are different stages, including an economic, legal, and military. "Working three stages simultaneously is hard, but that is the fate of MBS. The Muslim ummah, plus its non-Muslim sisters and brothers, are the audience. No one in this audience wants to see a bad play. All of us yearn for a performance that merits a standing ovation."
"Sharia threat is a myth, according to Raj Bhala, professor of law at the University of Kansas School of Law, 'The fear of Shariah is irrational, based on ignorance not only of Islamic law but also American law that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.'"
Professor Mulligan comments on changing the Kansas Constitution. “If the Kansas Legislature wished to begin the process of Constitutional Amendment, they could,” said Mulligan. “It takes a two-thirds vote out of both the Kansas House and the Kansas Senate to send a Constitutional Amendment to the general ballot and that just requires a majority of voters to approve.” He says there are many different ways to get it done, but that it is not an easy task.
"The Saudi student leader at the University of Kansas sees the biggest challenge for his homeland going forward as economic." Bander Almohammadi said that he has found found friendly people at the University of Kansas and that they have made him feel at home. He said since classes have been in session he has been working to acquire more knowledge about the American justice system.
"Two recent cases involving prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s office in Kansas City, Kansas, point to a problem that some criminal defense lawyers say has been building for a long time: For years, they say, a small group of federal prosecutors in KCK has run roughshod over the rights of criminal defendants.
University of Kansas Law professor Corey Rayburn Yung says that the Roy Moore's take on the case Higdon v. Alabama was not dishonorable. "Force with a child is arguably different than force with an adult because of size, power, and maturity,' Yung said, but Alabama law does not reflect this commonsense distinction. So the state Supreme Court chose to fix the problem by effectively redefining force in cases of child sexual abuse. That may be an honorable undertaking. But there is nothing dishonorable about Moore’s insistence that the legislature fix its own mistakes."
"A Middle East expert at the University of Kansas believes there is still much to learn about the latest crackdown on corruption in Saudi Arabia. 'Over the weekend, a large number, several dozen senior businesspersons and Royal Family members were arrested and charged with corruption,' said Raj Bhala, the Brennesein Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas Law School, and a Senior Advisor at Dentons. 'Their finances and their business transactions have violated one or the other laws, from tax evasion to money laundering to disclosure.
Following the death of 8 people in a terrorist attack in New York City President Donald Trump said that our judicial system was a joke. Justice and KU Law professor Steve Leben says that our constitutional rights slow down the justice system. He wrote in the Kansas City Star, "Giving people rights slows down the system. And the level of protection we get — which determines how much we need to slow down was largely determined when the Bill of Rights was adopted." He said that the justice system works well, even though it may be imperfect.
