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Original Post:
The Docket Returns
Thu, April 16, 2009
Near the end of last year, I briefly wrote The Docket, a weekly feature on this blog that highlighted some of the best legal journalism around the web. I ended my modest effort (the ABA Journal's kind review notwithstanding) to concentrate on a new job as the Newark Star-Ledger's night cops reporter. I've found some time on my hands of late though, so let's begin the Docket anew:

Joanna Connors' heart-stopping series "Beyond Rape" in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer deserves too many plaudits for me to fully list here. Connors, who was raped in 1984 while covering a story for the paper, memorably recounts the incident and her recent efforts to find the man convicted of the crime and his family. The series is a public service, a personal testimony, and -- along with its numerous multimedia elements -- an unforgettable account of a crime that all too often goes under-reported.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was charged Tuesday with a number of federal corruption crimes. Soon after his scandal broke out last year, however, NPR's Talk of the Nation hosted an extremely interesting discussion on the fluid legal boundaries between trading favors and political corruption, as well as the broader ethics of quid pro quo in everyday life.

And finally, in honor of tax season, The Big Money cheekily profiles an I.R.S. unit that includes "the most badass number crunchers on the planet." Think accountants with guns and shiny badges.

-- Rohan Mascarenhas
Posted at 05:58 AM
There are 2 comments to this post:
John_Ch commented:
I believe that any country in the world has corruption problem, because it is a human nature. But the major problem is "how we can minimize that".

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Posted Tue, June 16, 2009 at 04:31 PM
commented:
Nice and thank you for this. We hope that corruption will be lost from this country.
Posted Sun, June 14, 2009 at 10:13 AM
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