by Derek Gilna
West Palm Beach Sheriff's Deputy Jason Cooke was arrested for burglarizing the home of a terminally-ill Boynton Beach, Florida man who had been transported to a hospital by paramedics for a medical emergency on September 12, 2017. Cooke used information obtained by misusing the privileges of his ...
by Derek Gilna
A new report published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
argues that drug-crime asset forfeiture by law enforcement agencies, which it termed "police for profit," could have had unintended consequences beyond the well-documented abuses of the process. That report explained that these asset forfeitures were ...
by Derek Gilna
Former Las Vegas police officer Richard Scavone pleaded guilty in October of 2017, in federal court, of assaulting a handcuffed female suspect. The guilty plea sets the stage for his future sentencing, when he will face a possible penalty of one year in jail and a $100,000 ...
by Derek Gilna
An 18-year old woman who calls herself Anna Chambers has created a firestorm after she claimed that two Hew York Police Deparment (NYPD) Brooklyn South detectives raped her on September 15, 2017, after a drug arrest, and then forced her to perform oral sex on them afterwards. ...
by Derek Gilna
An unprecedented school-wide sweep of Worth County High School by Worth County, Georgia, Sheriff's officials on April 14, 2017, allegedly carried out to search for drugs came up empty, but instead resulted in charges filed against Sheriff Jeff Hobby, and two of his deputies for alleged sexual ...
by Derek Gilna
Criminal justice experts generally agree that past behavior is the best predictor of future action, and the history of Cleveland police Sgt. Christopher Graham seems to bear that out. Graham was charged with first-degree misdemeanor unlawful restraint and assault after being accused of throwing down an 18-year ...
by Derek Gilna
Defendants who plead guilty on both the state and federal level generally are interviewed by the sentencing jurisdiction’s probation department, which seeks background information regarding the criminal history, family history, and health history of the defendant in order to assist the judge in determining an appropriate sentence. ...
by Derek Gilna
According to the nonprofit National Registry of Exonerations, Cook County, Illinois has a false confession rate three times higher than the national average. In November 2017, Cook County Prosecutor Kim Foxx dropped criminal cases against 15 men because of police misconduct, a development the Chicago Tribune referred ...
by Derek Gilna
Proposition 64, which legalizes the sale of recreational marijuana in the state of California, also has a less publicized benefit for those with state marijuana felonies on their record. It allows them to petition to have their convictions reduced or dismissed.
This has the potential to be ...
by Derek Gilna
The City of Los Angeles has beenhit with a $5.5 million jury verdict in November of 2017 for the death of a former Marine who was Tased six times in a row by the Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”) while they were attempting to restrain him. Michael ...
