• Forfeiture: “Defend the Right to Carry Cash and Travel Unmolested” [Eapen Thampy, Agitator]
• Recent Japanese racketeering law, unlike our RICO, actually focuses on organized crime [Adelstein]
• Sheriff’s flack to Fiona Apple: shut up and sing [Ken at Popehat]
• Jimenez case: 99-year sentence, “substantial likelihood defendant was not guilty of this offense” [Jacob Sullum]
• Conrad Black continues to speak out on barbarities of “prosecutocracy” [NY Sun]
• “Are whistle-blowers the new IRS business model?” [Victor Fleischer, NYT DealBook]
• “Minnesota Farmer Found ‘Not Guilty’ in Raw Milk Case” [Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason]
• Utah man shoots neighbor he thinks “telepathically raped” his wife, is ruled mentally fit for trial [CBS]

Filed under: forfeiture, Japan, prosecutorial abuse, taxes, whistleblowers