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Article • May 15, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
Prosecutors Dropping Child Porn Charges After Software Tools Are Questioned by Jack Gillum More than a dozen cases were dismissed after defense attorneys asked to examine, or raised doubts about, computer programs that track illegal images to internet addresses. by Jack Gillum, ProPublica Using specialized software, investigators traced explicit child …
Urban Institute - Next Steps in Federal Corrections Reform, Implementing and Building on the First Step Act, 2019 JUSTICE POLICY CENTER Next Steps in Federal Corrections Reform IMPLEMENTING AND BUILDING ON THE FIRST STEP ACT Julie Samuels, Nancy La Vigne, and Chelsea Thomson May 2019 The topic of federal corrections …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
D.C. Circuit Holds Attempted Drug Offenses Do Not Count Toward Career Criminal Designation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that prior convictions for attempted distribution of, and attempted possession with intent to distribute drugs, could not be used to render …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules as a Matter of 1st Impression That Mother’s Use of Opioids During Pregnancy Not Child Abuse by Chad Marks by Chad Marks On December 28, 2018, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled as a matter of first impression that a mother cannot be found to be …
Creation of Prosecutorial Watchdog in New York Spotlights Distinction Between Misconduct and Unfair Conduct by Michael Berk by Michael Berk Thanks in no small part to the dedicated lobbying of people such as Jeffrey Deskovic — who spent 16 years locked up for a rape and murder he did not …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Legal Aid Society Counters NYC Police Misconduct With New Database by The Legal Aid Society New York City has a new tool in the fight against rogue cops — a browsable database of NYC federal civil rights lawsuit data called CAPstat (capstat.nyc). The nonprofit organization released the information in early …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Abolishing the Death Penalty Leads to Decline in Murders by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a blow to those who cling to the idea that the death penalty deters murder, a study by the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center (“ABC”) demonstrates that when nations abolish the death penalty the rate of …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Filed under: War on Drugs, Sentencing
First Circuit: Failure to Prove a Prior Conviction Was a ‘Controlled Substance Offense’ Under the Guidelines Requires Resentencing by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that when the Government fails to prove a prior conviction was for a controlled substance as …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Arrests Do Not Necessarily Represent Solved Crimes by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Statistics show that the United States of America incarcerates more of its citizens per capita than any other legal jurisdiction in the world. The entry into the incarceration nation begins with the simple arrest by a member …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Filed under: Crime Labs
Expert Report Urges Changes to Forensic Analysis in Courtrooms by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Instead of subjective personal experiences, a new report by experts urges prosecutors and forensic experts to rely more on hard data and statistics to back evidence in a criminal case. A defendant’s life might rely …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Misconduct in the Forensic Science Community Reveals Urgent Need for Greater Oversight by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The U.S. has recently experienced a spate of convictions being overturned because of forensic science misconduct, according to Jessica S. Henry, associate professor, Department of Justice Studies, Montclair State University. It was …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Plea Bargaining: Prosecutors Leave Trail of Injustice When Playing Hardball with Defendants by David Reutter by David Reutter To fight against government tyranny in the criminal justice system, America’s Founding Fathers enshrined into the Constitution the “right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury.” Plea bargains, however, …
Publication • April 1, 2019
U.S. Department of Justice Bulletin, Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Jail Inmates in 2017," 2019 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics April 2019, NCJ 251774 Zhen Zeng, Ph.D., BJS Statistician C ounty and city jails in the United States reported a total confned population of …
The Next Step - Ending Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes, 2019 The Next Step Ending Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 628-0871 sentencingproject.org twitter.com/sentencingproj facebook.com/thesentencingproject instagram.com/endlifeimprisonment This report was written by Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Ph.D., …
Article • March 16, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
San Francisco Embraces New Technology to Clear Pot Convictions by Several pot-related crimes went up in smoke when California voters approved Proposition 64 marijuana reforms in 2016—and all retroactively. However, a lack of resources in many district attorney offices to review decades’ worth of criminal cases eligible under the new …
Article • March 16, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
Fourth Circuit Rules 3 Marijuana Stems Discovered in Single Trash Pull Insufficient for Search Warrant, Suppresses Evidence Found in Residence by David Reutter by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the suppression of evidence obtained while executing a search warrant based on the discovery …
Article • March 16, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
Filed under: Databases, Police
NYPD’s Controversial Use of Mugshot Database Searches by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  The NYPD’s practice of using a crime victim or witness’ description of a perpetrator to generate a search of the department’s mugshot database, often generating hundreds of hits, has caused controversy and resulted in wrongful arrests.  New …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Government Snitches: Incentivized Witnesses Are the Leading Cause of Wrongful Convictions by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Every year, innocent people go to prison, or even death row, because of government informants who lie to get a good deal in their own criminal case. The problem, studies show, is the …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal: Thousands More Cases Likely Affected by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has dismissed about 45,000 charges in more than 30,000 drug cases prosecuted in the state due to misconduct by chemists Sonja Farak of Amherst drug lab and Annie Dookhan of Hinton …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Filed under: Crime Labs
Report: Wisconsin Crime Labs Face Multitude of Problems by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Wisconsin has crime labs in Madison, Milwaukee, and Wausau. The Madison and Milwaukee labs are classified as full service because each is responsible for eight forensic-science fields, including DNA analysis. The Wausau lab covers only four …
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