by Jo Ellen Nott
The Polk County’s Sheriff Office in Central Florida arrested a Georgia deputy police chief on September 1, 2022, during a prostitution sting focusing on human trafficking in the area. Jason DiPrima, 49, of the Cartersville Police Department, was attending a polygraph training workshop in Orlando at ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On August 9, 2022, a Cook County judge in Chicago, Illinois granted motions filed by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to dismiss all charges against Marilyn Mulero, wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in 1993 for the murder of two Latin King gang members. Ms. Mulero’s exoneration ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On the night of July 26, 2022, an unconscious Black female was raped on the corner of Toulouse and Royal in New Orleans’ French Quarter. A visitor to the city witnessed the sexual violence and called 911 after a deputy constable on the street did nothing ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Kansas City, Kansas, (“KCK”) retired detective Roger Golubski used his position of authority and power to sexually abuse at least 70 women of color and with limited resources during his long career as a law enforcement officer in this midwestern city.
Legally, there is no ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On August 9, 2022, 40 groups representing immigration advocates and civil rights activists sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, calling foul and asking for an investigation of the University of Farmington – a shell university set up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On July 29, 2022 a Michigan task force presented its findings and made 32 recommendations to keep young people out of detention facilities, provide them with better legal representation, and offer them more family counseling and mental health treatment. A key recommendation would eliminate most fines ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On July 5, 2022, the Death Penalty Information Center reported that 5.6% of all death penalty sentences in the last 50 years were reversed because of prosecutor misconduct. That percentage represents 550 innocent people who were saved from state sanctioned murder.
The Center’s executive director Robert ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On the evening of July 10, 2022, an officer with the Gainesville Police Department (“GPD”) in north central Florida stopped Terrel Bradley, 30, on a pretextual traffic stop. Bradley fled the scene, and within an hour, a police K-9 had ripped his eye out of the ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) signed House Bill 2319 into law on July 13, 2002, making it a misdemeanor offense to record police within eight feet of where law enforcement activity is occurring. State Representative John Kavanaugh (R) first sponsored the bill in 2016, at which time it failed. ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
A hard stop by a police transport van snapped the neck of Richard Cox, 36, of New Haven, Connecticut, leaving him paralyzed on June 19, 2022. Cox had been arrested and handcuffed for the illegal possession of a firearm before he was placed in a van ...
