Kelli Goode's civil suit is a case study in how difficult it can be to get state actors to take responsibility when they allegedly infringe on someone's rights.
The New York Times and The Washington Post shamed the recipient of a pig heart transplant for committing a crime 35 years ago.
Cops in Los Angeles killed a young girl in a department store dressing room by accident while firing at a suspect armed with nothing more than a bike lock.
FBI Director Wray on "The Cops Who Didn't Come Home"
The San Fransicko author on fighting homelessness and mental illnesses without shredding civil liberties.
Social media accounts are windows into your activities, and the cops are watching.
Alabama allows death row inmates to pick an execution method other than lethal injection. But this intellectually disabled prisoner didn't receive proper accommodation, a judge says.
It was the city that put the footage in the public record in the first place.
The officers originally received qualified immunity, meaning Timpa's estate had no right to state their case before a jury.
"You could hear they were trying not to laugh."
After the cops killed her, the A.P. gave her the "no angel" treatment.
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The Trump administration's revival appeared to be an outlier. Executions are becoming more and more rare.
Rogel Aguilera-Mederos faced harsh punishment under the state’s mandatory minimum sentences for insisting on the right to a trial.
It's bad public policy to leap to the conclusion that we do.
The NYPD declined to punish nine other officers, despite recommendations from the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board.
Despite bipartisan momentum at the federal level, Congress still couldn't get anything over the finish line.
The best thing you could say about Bill de Blasio was that he was good for a laugh.
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
A New York state judge found video of guards ceding control of Rikers to gang leaders more than enough evidence to order the release of a pretrial inmate.
California's leaders can take the recent rise in property crime seriously without repeating the same "tough on crime" mistakes of the past.
Colorado First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King said she pursued the punishment after Aguilera-Mederos insisted on his right to trial.
Christmas comes a few days early for 2,800 inmates who had told they’d eventually have to return to their cells to serve out their terms.
Civil liberties advocates say the law is just a reheated version of flawed state anti-gang law.
My filings yesterday on behalf of the fifteen families who lost loved ones in the Boeing 737 MAX crashes explains why the Justice Department could not keep victims' families in the dark when it negotiated its immunity deal with Boeing.
The Institute for Justice wants the Supreme Court to review the case—and to clarify the proper scope of "investigatory stops."
And some state politicians are talking about asset forfeiture reform.
Rogel Aguilera-Mederos is set to die in prison, thanks to Colorado's mandatory sentencing laws.
The charge requires proof that James and Jennifer Crumbley knew their son posed a threat and could have prevented the attack through "ordinary care."
A new bill would transfer the review of petitions from the Justice Department to a presidentially appointed board.
"The market was asking that anyone who didn't need to go into the store to please stay outside," she says.
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Bobby Sneed's story highlights how far some government agents will go to keep people locked up, flouting the same legal standards they are charged with upholding.
“During discovery, plaintiff shall not inquire of the defendant concerning his prior sexual or romantic experiences ... with anyone unless the identity of the person ... has been disclosed by the [person] or otherwise become public, in either case in connection with a claim, published report in mainstream media, or public allegation that any such sexual or romantic experience or encounter was not in all respects consensual.”
Despite civil asset forfeiture reforms in Florida, police are still finding ways to take people's stuff.
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