Florida Judge Sentences Corrupt Cops to Prison, Slams Prosecution for "Slap on the Wrist"
Former Biscayne Park Officers Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez are going to prison after pinning burglaries on innocent black men.
Former Biscayne Park Officers Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez are going to prison after pinning burglaries on innocent black men.
The op-ed's claims are harsh, but they're also true.
The president's comments could improve the prospects for federal penal reform.
When genetic testing results become a tool for law enforcement
The 5th Circuit judge weighs in on qualified immunity, criminal sentencing, and false imprisonment.
The California Innocence Project helped free Horace Roberts from prison.
Officer First Class Ryan Macklin has since been arrested and suspended without pay.
Women prisoners are more likely to receive solitary confinement and other harsh punishments for minor infractions like "reckless eye-balling."
"Just as the police cannot destroy every unlicensed car or gun on the spot, they cannot kill every unlicensed dog on the spot."
Under Chinese law, disrespecting the national anthem is punishable by up to 15 days in jail.
Surveillance footage disproves her allegations-and reminds everyone not to automatically believe victims.
Jim Lindgren proposes a constitutional amendment banning court-packing. I'm all for it. But it can only pass if liberal Democrats get some reciprocal concession to support it.
Public defender shortfalls, warrantless rental inspections, and juveniles in solitary confinement.
Three arrests and six firings are not enough to keep Sgt. German Bosque from police work.
Plus: libertarian accounts purged from Facebook?
The burden of proof matters, and it's an issue of first impression in appellate courts.
But the ruling isn't based on free speech or religious liberty
The former New York mayor's authoritarian record shows he has no real love for America's founding document.
Police initially said the arrests were part of "a long-term investigation into...human trafficking" and prostitution.
The pair discussed reforms at the White House.
According to the court, "The death penalty is invalid because it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner."
The Court could strike a major blow for civil asset forfeiture reforms in the states and finally do away with an awful double jeopardy loophole.
It's pretty obvious that the 4'8" William Colon didn't pose a serious threat to any of the 8 cops on-scene.
Oddly enough, not in The Onion!
"He did absolutely nothing wrong," one witness said.
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: "Keeping prisoners in 'near-total isolation' from the living world [...] comes perilously close to a penal tomb."
Civil liberties lawyers worry that sensitive documents could end up in the wrong hands.
The Texas senator's authoritarian attacks on Beto O'Rourke short-circuit rational discussion of police shootings, drug policy, and sentencing reform.
This is how the system is supposed to work.
As if we needed any more evidence that the vast majority of undocumented immigrants aren't bringing crime into the country.
Plus: fight against FOSTA continues and Tennessee trooper reports Democrat for visiting falafel restaurant.
Efforts to help ex-offenders by making it difficult for employers to find out about a job applicant's criminal record can backfire.
Predictions to that effect may turn out to be overblown. But we should still take the threat of "court-packing" and other drastic measures to to reduce the Court's power seriously.
SCOTUS weighs congressional power, criminal law, and the non-delegation doctrine in Gundy v. U.S.
All together, in a Minnesota Court of Appeals decision handed down today.
It's hard to get rid of bad cops, especially when there are leaders willing to excuse deadly incompetence as an innocent mistake.
You'll never know for sure what's in someone else's heart. But forgiveness can be as much about what we owe ourselves as what someone else deserves.
I have a contribution in it, along with a variety of prominent legal scholars and commentators.
"Ginsburg Forgets 14th Amendment, Audience Has To Give Her Constitution," says a Daily Wire headline -- but the story doesn't mention this was section 2,
I don't sign such letters unless I fully agree with every assertion made.
Rather than seeking medical attention for an inmate, 3 sheriff's deputies made jokes at his expense.