A person by the name of Richard I. Fine has been in jail for a year without trial, bail, or an attorney in Los Angeles County. He is an attorney himself. The reason he is in jail is that he exposed a corrupt practice: the County Supervisors taking tax money and paying it to Judges handling land development cases in their courtroom, in return for the Judges finding in favor of the County in those cases.
Watch a jail house interview of Mr. Fine:
http://fulldisclosure.net/Programs/560.php
Watch a jail house interview of Mr. Fine:
http://fulldisclosure.net/Programs/560.php