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After crime plummeted in 2020, Baltimore will stop drug, sex prosecutions
Something happened in Baltimore last year. The coronavirus pandemic hit, and State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby announced that the city...
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A fed-up judge condemns the inequities in America’s legal system
In “Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System,” [Judge Jed S.] Rakoff reaches...
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US taxpayers spent almost $1 billion incarcerating innocent black people
Over the last few weeks, the Rodney Reed case has ignited a firestorm of interest, as celebrities, activists, and politicians worked to...
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Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench
Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. In 2016, the state agency that...
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Teflon Robe: 4 Takeaways From Reuters' Latest Investigation of U.S. Judicial Misconduct
An Arkansas judge who styled himself as a Sugar Daddy and was accused by local women of soliciting sex in exchange for cash, drugs and...
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Special Report: Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails without getting their day in court
Harvey Hill wouldn’t leave John Finnegan’s front yard. He stood in the pouring rain, laughing at the sky, alarming his former boss’ wife....
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The US supreme court is deciding more and more cases in a secretive ‘shadow docket’
On Tuesday, the supreme court issued an order requiring the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump-era policy that required asylum...
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Victims can't make a federal case out of police who stole their money
Police are violating no clearly established rights when they steal someones property after seizing it with a legal search warrant and,...
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Citys Annual Cost Per Inmate Is $168,000, Study Finds
New York City is an expensive place to live for just about everyone, including prisoners. The city paid $167,731 to feed, house and guard...
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Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice
On Page 5 of a credit card contract used by American Express ... is a clause that most customers probably miss. If cardholders have a...
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Over 3,000 US prisoners serving life without parole for non-violent crimes
[Timothy] Jackson was convicted of shoplifting and sent to Angola prison in Louisiana. That was 16 years ago. Today he is still...
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When Sexual Assault Victims Are Charged With Lying
2017-11-24, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/opinion/sunday/sexual-assault-victims-lying.html There are many reasons for...
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Court tosses EPA ban on pesticide linked to brain damage in kids
2023-11-02, The Hill https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4291117-court-tosses-epa-ban-pesticide/ A federal appeals court on...
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