which is more cruel and unusual? one of the most influential appellate courts erupted in public disagreement over one of the most difficult issues of our time, homelessness. having recently decided matters of affirmative action, student loans and adoption, on top of last year s rulings concerning abortion, guns, religion and climate change, scotus might soon have the final word here, too. at issue, ordinances in grants pass, oregon, which would impose fines on homeless people for encampment on public property. a trial court was faced with this issue, whether cities can impose criminal penalties for sitting, sleeping or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter. it held the ordinances were unconstitutional and constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment. the matter came before the powerful ninth circuit court, which has jurisdiction for much of the western united states and all of california. the ninth circuit
pete. a crazy and disturbing moment outside the courthouse this afternoon. a man lit himsel outsidf on fire. in cri you re seeing the aftermath of that here. that man is in criticaticondit e cornell burn center tonight. police say he came to new york i from florida within the past week and posted conspiracy theories onlin we. we do not believe this. this was targeting any particular person or any particular groupt ling. we just right now labeled itcons as a sort of a conspiracy theoriespira. judge merchan, a ruling on monday morning before pros about,tements what prosecutors can bring up if former president trump testifieha pomething that he has said he would like to do. we ll send it back to you, pete er. thank you very much.na they never revealed the nameme. trump yet again. trump reiterating todaywatch. he will testify, but the gag order needs to be thrown out. watch the gag order has to come
which has jurisdiction for much of the western united states and all of california. the ninth circuit has been regarded as a progressive bastion, but elections have consequences. president trump has able to appoint ten judges to the ninth circuit, president biden seven. it limited what idaho could do with regard to its homeless. this time a three-judge panel similarly ruled against a city s effort to regulate its homeless population. when grants pass then sought to have the matter considered by the entire ninth circuit, it could not get the required majority vote from all active members of the bench. that s when all hell broke loose among the judges. there are 29 active judges, the denial of a fullw drew 1 dissents and other stements. many were blistering. as the oregonian reported, many who dissented argued that the grants pass ruling created a confusing set of rules based on a flawed interpretation of the
something. as detectives wrapped up the interview with the husband, a narrative was starting to come together about the victim, of a former addict, possibly re-addicted. how does that change the complexion of the investigation early on? the woman whose body has been found was a recovering addict and maybe fell off the wagon? well, it makes it far more complex for us, because now we have to consider the possibility that she met up with the wrong person at the wrong time, and that somehow led to her demise. that this was somehow related to the people that she knew through her aa affiliation. which she was very much into, and regularly attended those meetings. so doors are opening a possibility. yes. rather than closing. yes, yes. some old fashioned gumshoe investigative work would have to come next. tracking down phone records, credit card stements. anything to pinpoint where nici may have headed afr leaving the condo saturday morning. only one more blip on nici s timelin
first thing i noticed, of course, was that she was nude. the second thing i noticed, her arms were gently across her chest. not just a body abandoned. correct. she had not been discarded like garbage, but had been placed into and under the vines. the detective had a special set of skills she called on now. she had been trained in tracking, reading trails, disturbed vegetation, just like the scouts in the old west. the pattern of broken branches and tamped-down leaves and soil told her that the body had lain out here about a week. is there anything that suggested to you why this woman would have been abandoned here? no. and that was part of the complexity of this investigation. we had all sorts of avenues that we needed to investigate. we had the transient population that may have been frequenting the trailer park. we had a mental health facility that was very close by, within walking distance. but detective decker did have a strong hunch about who this victim was. the cro