Cops in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, were searching for a theft suspect on the property who was not there when they arrested William Walls and caused his death.
The federal mandatory minimum didn't leave many options.
New York's residence restrictions for sex offenders raise the question of how irrational a policy must be to fail "rational basis" review.
A Supreme Court ruling restoring Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capital sentence and a congressional logjam makes it clear that only he can keep his campaign promise.
San Fransicko author Michael Shellenberger on homelessness, crime, addiction, and his differences with progressives and libertarians.
Patrick Card's story is a case study in how the state uses civil forfeiture to try to coerce plea bargains.
The California State Auditor's Office found that the jails responded poorly to inmate deaths.
Brett Hankison's acquittal shows how difficult it is to hold cops accountable for abusing their power.
One of Dateline NBC’s favorite true crime cases gets a wild mini-series adaptation.
The bill addresses treatment of women in federal prisons and sexual assault of people in police custody.
An interesting concurrence to one of today's Supreme Court decisions.
Three years since it launched, an FBI data collection program on police use-of-force incidents has yet to gain enough participation to release any statistics.
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The Supreme Court is considering what standard should apply to prescribers accused of violating the Controlled Substances Act.
Patients suffer when physicians who prescribe opioids in good faith can face decades in prison.
More than a year into the Biden administration, promises to expand clemency, decriminalize marijuana, and end solitary confinement and the federal death penalty remain unfulfilled.
"You can't treat everyone like a criminal to find the criminals," an outraged driver says. In Jackson, apparently you can.
Reason reported last year on how minors are particularly susceptible to being coerced into false confessions.
The defendants unsuccessfully argued that their training was inadequate and that they understandably deferred to a senior officer.
When cops don't police their own, the results can be deadly.
A new bill in Kansas seeks to make it harder for cops to seize assets without a criminal conviction.
The former detective's trial should not obscure the responsibility of the drug warriors who authorized, planned, and executed the deadly raid.
Ed Mullins, known for combatively defending bad police behavior and the drug war, charged with wire fraud by the Department of Justice.
To "get wanted individuals off the streets," police are stopping drivers without any evidence that they have broken the law.
The Pensacola Police Department has launched an internal investigation into how a 1-year-old boy was injured in police custody following the pre-dawn raid.
Such laws, which allow redundant prosecutions based on defendants' bigoted beliefs, supposedly are authorized by the amendment that banned slavery.
"You'll have a bunch of people who plead to avoid trial or go broke trying to vindicate their rights."
"It's completely changed my belief in fairness," says Amy Sterner Nelson.
Police seized more than $100,000 in cash from a 25-year-old Chicago woman for not correctly describing what her suitcase looked like.
In an age of elite scorn, government mandates, a rotten economy—and powerful, decentralized communication tools—common people are pushing back.
Ryan Murphy's take on the Clinton impeachment has a bipartisan message about the corrupting nature of power.
Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said Moses would be a free woman—if she hadn't insisted on exercising her constitutional right to trial.
According to a former federal prosecutor, the seemingly redundant case sends "the message that the Justice Department won't tolerate this type of racist hatred."
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Larry Krasner also questions the effectiveness of "supply-side" measures aimed at reducing criminals' access to firearms.
In addition, 201 "sex buyers" were arrested.
Banning "no-knock" search warrants is not enough to prevent lethal confrontations between cops and people exercising the right to armed self-defense.
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Louisiana refused to release Sneed for months, despite a judge ruling several times that the state was breaking the law.
Ever wonder where people get the idea that police are thin-skinned bullies?
The Institute for Justice offers a generally pessimistic appraisal of the situation under state law, but some optimism about prospects in the Supreme Court.
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