Morning Matters

• Alberto Gonzalez advises Mexican government to try drug cartels in public, because, “Doing things in private breeds corruption.”
• Michigan judge sentences mother to 30 days in jail because she can’t afford to pay for her son’s sentence to a juvenile detention center.
• Police raid a couple’s home looking for a drug suspect who sold an informant half an ounce of marijuana. Turns out, the suspect had already been in jail for the past three months. They did at least knock in this one.
• Group of five 18-year-olds get the equivalent of a $9,000 fine for splitting a six-pack of beer.
• Homeland Security released a tool... to detect whether a computer is infected by the April 1 Conficker worm.

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