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 …
by Jo Ellen Nott
In the first week of June 2022, a federal judge decided that a three-drug cocktail including the sedative midazolam is a constitutional method of execution. Pursuant to that decision, Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor is asking the state to schedule executions of 25 prisoners …
by Jo Ellen Nott
You can buy marijuana legally in New Jersey as of Thursday, April 21, 2022, one day after “World Weed Day.” Governor Phil Murphy signed into law three bills defining the recreational cannabis industry, legalized cannabis use, and decriminalized possession. New Jersey residents now know …
by Jo Ellen Nott
When cops in L.A. wrongfully use deadly force, they seldom, if ever, receive serious punishments according to a report by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Inspector General. Between 2015 and 2020, sixty-six officers wrongfully used deadly force. Twenty-seven of them were not disciplined and …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On March 24, 2022, the Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission made public its plan to conduct a “full-scale” investigation into the gangs of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (“LASD”). Nine volunteer members form the Commission that was created in January of 2016 …
by Jo Ellen Nott
April is Second Chance Month for those whose lives have been changed by an encounter with the criminal justice system in the United States. The state of Pennsylvania, under the leadership of Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, is taking a huge step forward in giving …
by Jo Ellen Nott
The FBI seized almost one million dollars from Carl Nelson and Amy Sterner Nelson in May of 2020 after having shown up the month before to their home in West Seattle to let Carl know he was being investigated for allegedly “depriving Amazon of …
by Jo Ellen Nott
In nightmarish tale from Alabama, a small town’s police department lead by a new police chief hell bent on padding his department’s revenue near the state’s capital shook down hundreds of unfortunate motorists in a period of three years. From 2017 to 2020, the …
by Jo Ellen Nott
Just when you think you had heard it all regarding Florida’s propensity to questionable money making, yet another case comes along that cloaks itself in moral respectability but has an element of graft. The public sex offense registry kept by the Florida Department of …
by Jo Ellen Nott
The officer who shot a teenager in the back of the neck leaving him paralyzed is having his identity protected by the Miami-Dade Police Department in an overreach of Marsy’s law used by at least half of Florida’s largest law enforcement agencies.
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