Criminal Justice

• On the Verge of Serving His Jail Sentence, Dharun Ravi Apologizes, Jacob Sullum, May 30, 2012
• Ted Stevens' Prosecutors Punished for Withholding Evidence, Jacob Sullum, May 25, 2012
• Drug Busts As Make-Work for Superfluous Cops, Jacob Sullum, May 25, 2012
• Dharun Ravi Gets 30-Day Jail Sentence, Plus Probation, Jacob Sullum, May 21, 2012
• Police Tell Woman to Pay Son's Bail in Cash, Then Steal it, Matt Welch, May 21, 2012
• Prison Study: Equal Sexual Misconduct from Inmates, Staff, Scott Shackford, May 17, 2012
• Federal Judge Allows Class Action Challenging the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Program, Jacob Sullum, May 16, 2012
• Three Reasons to Reject Federal Hate Crime Charges Against George Zimmerman, Jacob Sullum, May 16, 2012
• Another Exhibit Against Florida's Self-Defense Law Disintegrates, Jacob Sullum, May 16, 2012
• We Find the Defendant, John Edwards, Guilty of Scumbaggery, Jacob Sullum, May 15, 2012
• How a Poster Boy for Commutation Falls Through the Cracks, Jacob Sullum, May 14, 2012
• Bloomberg Likens the NYPD's 'Stop and Frisk' Program to Random DUI Checkpoints, Jacob Sullum, May 11, 2012
• She Stole His Heroin, So She Was the Victim, Jacob Sullum, May 10, 2012
• Will Oregon's Next Attorney General Uphold Its Medical Marijuana Law?, Jacob Sullum, May 10, 2012
• New York's Highest Court Says Merely Looking at Kiddie Porn Is Not a State Crime, Jacob Sullum, May 9, 2012
• What Makes a Horror Movie Intolerable in Canada?, Jacob Sullum, May 8, 2012
• Is Every Self-Defense Claim a 'Stand Your Ground' Case Now?, Jacob Sullum, May 7, 2012
• Does the Outcome in Arizona v. United States Matter?, Damon W. Root, May 4, 2012
• Cops in Cruisers Sniff Out Cars Carrying Pot Smokers, Jacob Sullum, May 4, 2012
• How Dharun Ravi's Prosecutors Turned a Minor, Nonviolent Offense Into a Felony Subject to a 10-Year Prison Sentence, Jacob Sullum, May 2, 2012
• The Path That Led to the Shooting of Trayvon Martin, Jacob Sullum, May 2, 2012
• 'Shock Artist' Could Get 25 Years for Offending Federal Prosecutors, Jacob Sullum, May 1, 2012
• Colorado Man Exonerated After Serving 18 Years for Murder, Jacob Sullum, May 1, 2012
• The FBI: Making Sure We Don't Need to Import Terror From Overseas, Brian Doherty, April 30, 2012
• Jumping to Conclusions About My Conclusions, Jacob Sullum, April 26, 2012
• 20 Years for Standing Her Ground Against a Violent Husband, Jacob Sullum, April 25, 2012
• Zimmerman Takes Stand, Survives, Tim Cavanaugh, April 20, 2012
• Judge Rules That Advocating Jury Nullification Is Not a Crime, Jacob Sullum, April 20, 2012
• Does the 'Backlash' Against 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Make Sense?, Jacob Sullum, April 19, 2012
• Your Government: Committed to Keeping the Drug Market As Dangerous As Possible, Jacob Sullum, April 17, 2012
• How Can Overcharging Be Ethical?, Jacob Sullum, April 16, 2012
• More From George Will on the Costs of Drug Prohibition, Jacob Sullum, April 12, 2012
• If George Zimmerman Loses a Pretrial Motion to Dismiss, He Can Still Be Acquitted, Jacob Sullum, April 12, 2012
• Newt Gingrich Tells Us About the Justice System and Experts, Ed Krayewski, April 11, 2012
• George Zimmerman Charged With Second-Degree Murder, Jacob Sullum, April 11, 2012
• Florida Drug Warriors Say They Had to Erase Possibly Incriminating Surveillance Video—for Their Own Protection, Jacob Sullum, April 11, 2012
• WP Says Prosecutor Will Charge George Zimmerman, Jacob Sullum, April 11, 2012
• 9th Circuit Says Watching Reason.tv at Work Is No Crime, Jacob Sullum, April 11, 2012
• It's Not the Crime; It's the Cover-Up—Even If There Is No Crime, Jacob Sullum, April 10, 2012
• Autopsy Raises Doubts About Police Account of Kenneth Chamberlain's Death, Jacob Sullum, April 10, 2012
• The New York Times Gets Florida's Self-Defense Law Wrong. Again., Jacob Sullum, April 10, 2012
• Don't Call the Cops No. 359: Police Keep Suspiciously Large Tip, Brian Doherty, April 4, 2012
• We Are the Police, and We Are Here to Help Kill You, Jacob Sullum, April 4, 2012
• Did George Zimmerman Ignore the Police Dispatcher, and Why Did He Have a Gun?, Jacob Sullum, April 3, 2012
• ACLU Says Police Often Obtain Cellphone Location Data Without Warrants, Jacob Sullum, April 2, 2012
• SCOTUS Upholds Pre-Jail Strip Searches for Everyone, No Matter How Minor the Offense, Jacob Sullum, April 2, 2012
• Capitol Hemp Shuts Down As Government-Selected Vendors Plan to Grow Pot in D.C., Jacob Sullum, April 2, 2012
• The Times Keeps Shouting 'Stand Your Ground,' While Reporting That the Real Issue Was Probable Cause, Jacob Sullum, April 2, 2012
• SCOTUS Will Consider Dogs' Reliability As Probable Cause Generators, Jacob Sullum, March 30, 2012
• Study Finds a Third of Bronx Pot Busts Are Bogus, Jacob Sullum, March 30, 2012
• Did Police and Paramedics Conspire to Invent George Zimmerman's Injuries?, Jacob Sullum, March 29, 2012
• More on the Irrelevance of 'Stand Your Ground' to the Trayvon Martin Case, Jacob Sullum, March 28, 2012
• ABC News: Lead Homicide Investigator Did Not Buy George Zimmerman's Story, Jacob Sullum, March 27, 2012
• New Details About George Zimmerman's Account of His Fight With Trayvon Martin, Jacob Sullum, March 27, 2012
• Paul Krugman: 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Increase Incarceration by Reducing It, Jacob Sullum, March 26, 2012
• 'Stand Your Ground' May Have Nothing to Do With the Trayvon Martin Case, Jacob Sullum, March 26, 2012
• Hate Is All You Need to Federalize a Crime, Jacob Sullum, March 23, 2012
• Going to Canada? Leave Your Comic Books at Home., Jacob Sullum, March 22, 2012
• Smells Like Multiple Fourth Amendment Violations, Jacob Sullum, March 22, 2012
• Was George Zimmerman the Aggressor?, Jacob Sullum, March 22, 2012
• Was Nicholas Kristof's Story About an Underage Prostitute Peddled on Backpage.com 'Concocted'?, Jacob Sullum, March 21, 2012
• SCOTUS Says Defendants Have a Right to Effective Counsel in Deciding Whether to Reject a Plea Bargain, Jacob Sullum, March 21, 2012
• The New York Times on 'Stand Your Ground': Prosecutors Do Not Like a Law That Makes It Harder to Prosecute People, Jacob Sullum, March 21, 2012
• Does Tyler Clementi's Suicide Prove Dharun Ravi Is a Bigot?, Jacob Sullum, March 20, 2012
• Did Dharun Ravi Commit a Hateless Hate Crime?, Jacob Sullum, March 16, 2012
• Dharun Ravi Found Guilty on Most Charges, Tim Cavanaugh, March 16, 2012
• Bill Bennett Takes Drug Policy Advice From Bruce Springsteen, Jacob Sullum, March 15, 2012
• Reason.tv: How Sex Offender Registries Fail Us, Tracy Oppenheimer, March 14, 2012
• Is Dharun Ravi Guilty of 'Bias Intimidation'?, Jacob Sullum, March 14, 2012
• Reason Writers on The Alyona Show: Matt Welch Talks Voter Access, Plea Bargaining in America, and Public Attitudes About War, March 13, 2012