Can Larry Krasner Fix Philly's Crime Problem?
Philadelphia's progressive district attorney tried to enact criminal justice reform—and got impeached for his trouble.
Philadelphia's progressive district attorney tried to enact criminal justice reform—and got impeached for his trouble.
The actor is a polarizing figure. That shouldn't matter when evaluating the criminal case against him.
"Under the new rule, the State would have been able to prolong the botched execution process indefinitely," the Equal Justice Initiative wrote in a press release.
"In short, the controlling motivations for the suspension were the interest in bringing down a reform prosecutor," the judge wrote.
Thousands of local, state, and federal law-enforcers have access to sensitive financial data.
Justice Department regulations threaten people with prosecution for failing to register even when their state no longer requires it.
Body camera footage shows precisely why some people don’t trust police to respond appropriately to nonviolent incidents.
The Supreme Court takes up “true threats” and the First Amendment in Counterman v. Colorado.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear 94-year-old Geraldine Tyler's case challenging home equity theft.
It may sound bizarre, but yes, you can be punished at sentencing for an offense you were acquitted of by a jury.
"They couldn't keep him alive for two weeks," says the boy's father. "That's absolutely insane."
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The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.
Minnesota law allowed Hennepin County to seize a $40,000 home owned by a 93-year-old widow to pay off a $15,000 tax debt.
Part of a law that authorizes warrantless snooping is about to expire, opening up a opportunity to better protect our privacy rights.
Any unjustified killing by the government demands public attention. But fatal shootings by police used to be much more common.
"My daughter rushed to the car and she's like, 'mommy DCFS came to the school, and the lady made it sound like we weren't going to come home with you today,'" Tresa Razaaq told a local news station.
Federal sentences for simple marijuana possession dropped by 93 percent over seven years.
A last-minute injunction gets tossed, allowing the state to give Robert Fratta a lethal dose of pentobarbital.
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Because of a misdemeanor welfare fraud conviction, Bryan Range is no longer allowed to own guns.
In both cases, proving criminal intent would be a tall order.
A North Carolina detective may have inhaled a significant amount during a drug bust.
Justice Richard Bernstein said Pete Martel's hiring as clerk was unacceptable because "I'm intensely pro-law enforcement."
On Thursday, the South Carolina Supreme Court began hearing arguments in a case that could see the state's attempt to execute inmates by electrocution or firing squad declared unconstitutional.
Defendants say this practice violates the state’s own laws. The attorney general is pushing onward anyway.
Irvington made national headlines last year when it filed a lawsuit against an 82-year-old woman for filing too many public records requests. Now it says a lawyer for FIRE should be prosecuted.
Intelligence-gathering “fusion centers” repeatedly abuse civil liberties without making us safer.
Officers piled on top of a cuffed Akeem Terrell after he was arrested for acting erratically at a party, and later found him pulseless and facedown in an isolation cell.
Zion’s attempts to push out unwanted renters collides with Fourth Amendment protections.
"When it comes to problems happening in America, [the NBA is] the first organization saying, 'This is wrong,'" says the former professional basketball player. But then they're silent for victims of torture.
"Just because I made some bad choices in my life, they shouldn't be allowed to make bad health choices for me and my baby," said one woman whose labor was induced against her will.
The first FBI director wasn't all bad (or a cross-dresser). But he and the agency he created regularly flouted constitutional limits on power.
The first FBI director wasn't a cross-dresser, says a new biography, but he was often quick to flout constitutional limits on state power.
Oregon was one of only two states that allowed for non-unanimous guilty verdicts until the Supreme Court outlawed them in 2020.
Today's scheduled execution is getting attention because she's trans. But the bigger story here is how she was sentenced to die.
While rising crime created headwinds for candidates who supported criminal justice reform, the apocalyptic storm never quite arrived.
"The most valuable thing taken away while in prison is time," says the author of Corrections in Ink.
The governor and attorney general say they’ll appeal to the state Supreme Court.
Freeman, an early adopter of the virtual currency, gets slammed by a state that can't tolerate any use of money without its permission and knowledge.
A surveillance state is no less tyrannical when the snoops really believe it's for your own protection.