Why Is It So Hard for Victims of Police Abuse To Get Justice?
Joanna Schwartz on how law enforcement "became untouchable"
Joanna Schwartz on how law enforcement "became untouchable"
The former president's retention of classified documents looks willful and arguably endangered national security.
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All they found was some cool cars and clothes.
At this rate, the Southern Poverty Law Center's notorious hate map might eventually describe everyone as an extremist.
The feds allege the former president was keeping classified documents on America's nuclear program and defense capabilities in his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Prosecutors also want a judge to take basically all possible defenses off the table.
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"All I've been able to see for a little while was this trial," says Amy Lovato.
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Joseph Zamora spent nearly two years in prison after being convicted of assaulting police officers. The Washington Supreme Court overturned his conviction, but local prosecutors want to charge him again to show him the "improperness of his behavior."
More than two years after legalizing recreational use, the state has just a dozen licensed retailers.
In my Supreme Court amicus brief for the victim's family in Oklahoma v. Richard Glossip, I argue that the Oklahoma Attorney General's unfounded confession of "error" should not dictate the case's outcome.
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The state court of appeals held previously that unconstitutionally collected evidence could still be used for civil enforcement.
The recorded comments could be relevant to a charge that the former president willfully mishandled national defense information.
Maurice Jimmerson has spent 10 years in jail awaiting trial for a 2013 murder charge.
No longer will the troubled jail system publicly report when somebody dies in custody.
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"An attorney-client relationship between two adults does not present the same inherent danger or foreseeability" as "a relationship between an adult and a child in a religious organization."
As with other cases in recent months, Georgia law enforcement has used specious classifications to charge nonviolent protesters with domestic terrorism.
A study suggests that "selectively targeting large-scale drug vendors" on the dark web can succeed where all previous enforcement efforts have failed.
A growing number of "First Amendment auditors" are testing the limits of what police will and will not allow them to film.
Texas' public record law let police hide records of suspects who died in custody from grieving families, reporters, and lawyers.
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Eric Parsa died after police placed him in a "prone position" for over nine minutes. Now, the DOJ says that the officers' actions likely violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
DeSantis calls the bill a "jailbreak," a gross misrepresentation of the criminal justice reform bill.
It remains unclear whether the Oath Keepers leader had a specific plan to violently disrupt the electoral vote count on January 6.
Brianna Grier was having a mental health crisis. She needed an ambulance. She got two cops instead.
A Reason investigation earlier this year detailed the case of a Minnesota woman who was sentenced to 40 years on probation for a drug crime.
By glossing over routine crime victims in favor of stories with unorthodox circumstances, the press paints a distorted picture of a very real problem.
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Asset forfeiture isn't funny—but what if it involves tripping bunnies and psychedelic mushrooms?
A lawyer for the family speculates that jail officials balked at the medication's high price.
The Supreme Court ruled that home equity theft qualifies as a taking, and that state law is not the sole source for the definition of property rights. The ruling is imprecise on some points, but still sets an important and valuable precedent.
A House-approved bill that the president supports would expand the draconian penalties he supposedly wants to abolish.
Police have a long history of using the real or imagined smell of marijuana to justify outrageous invasions.
Join Reason on YouTube Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern with Eli Lake to discuss what the Durham report tells us about the FBI, the media and U.S. politics.
Sometimes he calls for freedom, and sometimes he preaches something darker.
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The FBI is investigating the shooting, but Supreme Court precedent from last year's Egbert v. Boule will make it nearly impossible for Raymond Mattia's family to find justice through civil courts.