{"id":3838,"date":"2012-09-25T21:35:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2012-09-25T21:35:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:35:41","slug":"federal-conviction-machine-bill-andersons-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/federal-conviction-machine-bill-andersons-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Conviction Machine – Bill Anderson’s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Anderson<\/strong><\/a> had an excellent blog post on how the feds are coercing innocent people to plead guilty. Bill has been doing a lot of the best writing on this subject for years – and the issue may finally be catching fire. <\/span><\/p>\n

I belatedly added Bill’s website<\/strong><\/a> to my blog roll.\u00a0 Bill, an economics professor at Frostburg State University, \u00a0never takes any prisoners.\u00a0 He has done pathbreaking work on many subjects – esp. the perversion of justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

And he has dogged Paul Krugman better than anyone else has. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Anderson had an excellent blog post on how the feds are coercing innocent people to plead guilty. Bill has been doing a lot of the best writing on this subject for years – and the issue may finally be catching fire. 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