Dark justice.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) is an American nonprofit organization, founded in 1970, which provides free legal assistance to journalists. A number of prominent journalists presently sit on the organization's steering committee, including Walter Cronkite, finds that during the last five years more than 450 criminal cases in the U.S. District Court in D.C. were conducted in complete secrecy secrecy
see confidentiality. . These cases were not just sealed seal 1
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a. A die or signet having a raised or incised emblem used to stamp an impression on a receptive substance such as wax or lead.
b. The impression so made.
c. but off the docket completely, leaving no record of what happened or to whom.
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