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Cato
Forums:
Jesse
Ventura,
Prosecutorial
Abuse,
Forfeiture
Reform
4/9/99
April 13, 10:30am - 2:00pm,
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Liberty in the New Millennium, featuring
Jesse Ventura, Governor of Minnesota, Eric O'Keefe, author of Who Rules
America: The People vs. The Political Class, and Edward H. Crane, Mike
Tanner, and Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute. To be held at the
Radisson Plaza Hotel, 37 South 7th Street, Minneapolis. To register
and for further information on the seminar, please call Lesley Albanese
of the Cato Institute, at (202) 789-5223 or e-mail [email protected].
April 14, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm,
Washington, DC. Win at All Costs: Prosecutorial Abuse in the Federal
Courts, featuring Bill Moushey, Staff Writer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Two years ago, Moushey launched an investigation of federal prosecutorial
practices, and published his disturbing findings in a collection of 10
articles titled Win at All Costs. bsp; Moushey documents how government
officials have lied, hidden evidence, distorted facts, engaged in cover-ups,
and set up innocent people in a relentless effort to win indictments, guilty
pleas, and convictions. Victims of that misconduct have sometimes lost
their jobs, their assets, and even their families. At the Cato Institute,
1000 Massachusetts Ave., NW, business attire requested. To register,
call Laura Cooper at (202) 789-5229, fax (202) 371-0841, or e-mail [email protected].
May 3, 9:00am - 1:30pm, Washington,
DC. Forfeiture Reform: Now, or Never? A half-day conference
sponsored by Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies featuring Rep. Henry
J. Hyde, Stefan Cassella, Ira Glasser, Gordon Kromberg, James H.Warner,
Samuel J. Buffone, and Roger Pilon. For further info, visit http://www.cato.org/events/ccs99/
on the web, call (202)218-4633 or e-mail [email protected].
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Issue #86, 4/9/99
Driving While Non-White | Search and Seizure Protections Weakened | 53 Year-old Grandmother Robbed, Beaten While Trying to Buy Cannabis for Her Arthritis | California's Y2K (+1) Crisis | Illinois Bill Criminalizes Marijuana Information on the Internet | Report: Crises of the Anti-Drug Effort, 1999 | New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition -- ACTION Alert | Leaders of South American Indigenous Peoples Challenge US Ayahuasca Patent | EXHIBIT: Human Rights and the Drug War in Virginia | Gore 2000 or Gore 1984? | Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics | Cato Forums: Jesse Ventura, Prosecutorial Abuse, Forfeiture Reform | Editorial: There Oughta Be a Law: Protecting the Masses from Themselves
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