Giving Kyle Rittenhouse Basic Due Process Is Not a Scandal
Such motions are "not uncommon in self-defense cases where there is a dispute over who bears responsibility."
Such motions are "not uncommon in self-defense cases where there is a dispute over who bears responsibility."
A Supreme Court ruling requires due process before sending these people back to jail. That’s not happening in Montgomery County.
Raquel Esquivel, convicted of a nonviolent drug offense in 2009, was put on home confinement during COVID-19.
Cops thought Hoang Vinh Pham, who received a 15-year prison sentence, was suspicious because he stared at a police van full of marijuana.
The ruling won't help him much, because he also was convicted of a more serious charge, based on a "particularly weird" form of the felony murder doctrine.
But at least state lawmakers also passed some useful criminal justice bills and policing reforms.
In a lawsuit, Marc Crawford's widow says the state refused to give him his prescriptions and his chemotherapy.
The civil liberties group says there's a clear pattern of police misconduct involving schoolchildren.
"What they're doing is like robbery," observed one property owner.
While police in schools "do effectively reduce some forms of violence," they intensify the use of school discipline and arrests.
It might represent justice in this case. But the approach is rife for abuse.
Recent Supreme Court rulings and developments in state legislatures have dashed hopes for a quick end to the pernicious doctrine that protects abusive law enforcement officials.
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Some encouraging results from the 2020 National Crime Victimization Survey
Richard Martinez lost his dream car because of VIN-plate issues prosecutors admit he was "not aware of."
In two opinions issued Monday, the Court gave qualified immunity to several police officers accused of violating the Constitution.
People convicted of possessing child pornography receive long sentences, but new data suggest they are rarely arrested for contact offenses after their release.
Newsom's opposition to a judge's order requiring vaccinations for prison staffers lays bare the hypocrisy of the governor.
It was unconstitutional to charge Jenna Holm with manslaughter. But the state wanted to protect its own.
Whatever this system is, it is not pro-life.
A district court judge found "overwhelming evidence" of Vickers Cunningham's bigotry.
No accountability for government corruption.
Art Acevedo provoked many complaints, but they paled in comparison to his prior record of negligence and obliviousness.
With “keyword warrants,” anyone who queries certain terms on search engines will get caught in the surveillance dragnet.
The federal government and police are finding new ways to use drones to invade privacy.