Finally, on the issue of both political prisoners and prisoners in general, China should allow greater transparency of its judicial processes (NOTE: Dolma contends that Tibetans receive no legal representation and have no clear trial dates, making it very difficult to monitor trial outcomes.
The judicial officer noted the need for a deterrent against further such offences.
However, the independent judicial officer, noted the need for a deterrent to combat this type of offence.
In that ruling the nation's highest judicial panel noted that intellectual disability placed prisoners at "special risk of wrongful execution".
The Alliance for Justice, which monitors judicial selections, noted that it was the first time in almost half a century that the full Senate had voted down a district court nominee.
Among them, Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice has decried a supposed "Kagan/Marshall judicial philosophy," noting that in her tribute she described as a "thing of glory" her former boss's view that courts should show special solicitude for disadvantaged parties.
"The judicial response," he noted dryly, "does not reflect the scale of the problem".
This "may complicate validating this evidence for purposes of its introduction in a judicial proceeding", Interpol noted at the time.
In October the head of a government judicial reform committee noted a broad consensus in favor of addressing the system's worst abuses.
In a recent opinion defending judicial restraint, Tatel noted, "The Constitution presumes that, absent some reason to infer antipathy, even improvident decisions will eventually be rectified by the democratic process and that judicial intervention is generally unwarranted no matter how unwisely we may think a political branch has acted".
