Stop Publishing Mug Shots—Even Donald Trump's
Mug shots are not taken to humiliate a defendant before they've been convicted. But that's the purpose they widely serve now.
Mug shots are not taken to humiliate a defendant before they've been convicted. But that's the purpose they widely serve now.
Legislators abuse the emergency label to push through spending that would otherwise violate budget constraints.
My amicus brief to the Third Circuit argues that the district court appropriately sanctioned the Philadelphia D.A.'s Office for making misleading representations about whether they had conferred with a crime victims' family.
While chalking on D.C. sidewalks and streets is illegal, the protesters say they were targeted for their beliefs.
"Doctrine that lets government officials get away with way too much"
Gov. John Bel Edwards has directed the state to review 56 death-row clemency applications after he made comments opposing capital punishment in April.
Special Counsel David Weiss will face a Second Amendment challenge if he prosecutes the president's son for illegally buying a firearm.
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Violators are rarely caught, while the unlucky few who face prosecution can go to prison for years.
The defendants will claim their alleged "racketeering activity" was a sincere effort to rectify election fraud.
How Florida prison officials let a man's prostate cancer progress until he was paralyzed and terminally ill.
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Body camera footage shows that Delaware police cited Jonathan Guessford for flipping them off, even though they later agreed it was his right to do so
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End the government’s plea-bargaining racket with open and adversarial jury trials.
A federal judge ruled in favor of an Idaho death-row inmate who says that the state is "psychologically torturing" him.
The decision casts further doubt on the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a felony for illegal drug users to own firearms.
The decision supports the notion that victims are entitled to recourse when the state retaliates against people for their words. But that recourse is still not guaranteed.
Better policing could solve the police-recruiting crisis.
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The former Minneapolis officer's 57-month sentence is based largely on the premise that he was "in the best position" to save Floyd.
Cristal Starling lost $8,000 after she missed one of several filing deadlines to contest the seizure of her money by police. A federal appeals court says she and others like her should be given more leeway.
The law makes it harder to record and observe police activity.
When he alleged fraud and sought help from government officials, they say, Trump was exercising rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
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"You don't have to punish me because I am already punishing myself," says Tabitha Frank.
Etowah County, Alabama, has charged hundreds of pregnant women and new mothers with "chemical endangerment" over minor drug offenses.
His state of mind when he tried to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election remains a mystery, perhaps even to him.
The assault on Mount Carmel was meant to bolster the ATF's reputation. It failed.
Many of the problems the state is experiencing are caused by the continuing impact of prohibition.
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Larkin, 74, took his own life on Monday, just a little over a week before he was slated to stand trial for his role in running the web-classifieds platform Backpage.
The new federal charges against Trump depend on the assumption that his claims were "knowingly false."
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The nature of their conduct is a better indicator of the punishment they deserve.
When a bystander offered to give the officers flotation devices and a small boat, they refused.
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