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Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Filed under: Informant's Identity
Minnesota Supreme Court: Non-Identifying Information About CI Must Be Disclosed Upon Request by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota affirmed a decision by the Court of Appeals, which held the district court erred in denying a defendant’s request for non-identifying information about a …
Michigan Supreme Court Announces Court Must Inform Defendant of Consecutive Sentencing Authority When Accepting Plea by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a case of first impression, the Supreme Court of Michigan held “that MCR 6.302(B)(2) requires the trial court, in cases where such advice is relevant, to advise …
Massachusetts Supreme Court: Officer’s Handling of Cellphone Exceeded Scope of Inventory Search by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (“SJC”) upheld a superior court’s order suppressing evidence obtained from a cellphone because the search of the cellphone was unsupported by probable cause, …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Seventh Circuit Reverses Denial of Motion to Suppress Because Police Lacked Reasonable Suspicion to Frisk by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois that denied Anthony Howell’s motion to …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
FBI Provides Fitness App in Exchange for Users’ GPS Coordinates by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney During the coronavirus lockdown, the FBI is urging people to stay in shape by downloading its Fitness App. On March 23, 2020, the agency tweeted “download the FBI’s Physical Fitness Test app to learn …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Strategies to Help Police Address Citizens With Special Needs by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A New Jersey man reaches out to police ahead of a possible altercation to make sure authorities are aware of his son’s autism-related issues. Gary Weitzen’s son Christopher has autism. Christopher has anxiety issues, …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Devastating Consequences of Chicago Gang Database – And No Way to Be Removed by Bill Barton by Bill Barton In 2018, the MacArthur Justice Center filed a class-action lawsuit against the city of Chicago, former Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, and the city’s police officers, challenging the city’s gang database. The …
Using Doctor-Prescribed Marijuana Could Send Some People Back to Prison by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Melissa Gass is a wife and a mother of five children who suffers from seizures as a result of a car crash when she was 10 years old. The seizures occur weekly, sometimes daily. …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
New Method to Determine Time of Death for Forensic Investigators by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Researchers at Amsterdam UMC — led by forensic biophysicist Maurice Aalders in collaboration with Co Van Ledden Hulsebosch Center and the Netherlands Forensic Institute —have devised a new method for calculating time of death …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Unrest After Kentucky Cops Shoot Sleeping Black Woman to Death in Her Bed While Serving No-Knock Warrant by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Calling for “justice for Breonna,” a recent vigil in Louisville and demonstrations across the country have focused on the young unarmed Black woman fatally shot by police …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Minnesota Lab Figures Out How to Tell Between Legal Hemp and Illegal Marijuana by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Medical marijuana is legal in the state of Minnesota, but recreational use is not. This causes problems for the state’s Hemp Pilot program, which licenses growers of hemp as long as …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Filed under: junk science
Small Forensics Lab Finds Niche in Analyzing Tiniest Bits of Evidence by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In the show Making a Murderer on Netflix, a forensics lab was tasked with figuring out if microscopic particles on a bullet were bone, as the prosecutor claimed. Turns out it was wood, …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
$8 Million Settlement for Wrongfully Convicted and Imprisoned Missouri Man by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss David Robinson settled out of court with the city of Sikeston, Missouri, for $8 million for a wrongful murder conviction, which forced him to spend 18 years in prison for a crime he did …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Police Use of Robotic Technology Raises Civil Liberty Concerns by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney While Sleepy Hollow had the Headless Horseman, the Massachusetts State Police (“MSP”) had the headless dog. Spot — a one-time member of MSP’s bomb squad — is a semi-autonomous robotic dog that MSP leased for …
Article • July 9, 2020
Filed under: Police Misconduct
The Surprising Geography of Police Killings: Back-of-the-Napkin Calculations on Race, Region, and Violence by Christian Parenti BY CHRISTIAN PARENTI In the United States, the police kill African Americans at a rate that is about 100 percent greater, or two times, 200 percent, their proportion of the national population. In 2016, black …
Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
Sixth Circuit: District Court’s Refusal to Reduce Crack Sentence Under First Step Act Requires Justification by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held on May 15, 2020, that the refusal by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky to …
Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
Florida Supreme Court Abandons Circumstantial Evidence Review Standard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In affirming the conviction and death sentence of Sean Alonzo Bush, the Supreme Court of Florida announced it is abandoning the different standard for reviewing wholly circumstantial evidence cases. Bush was convicted of the brutal …
Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Courts Oppose Prosecutors’ Attempts to Right Past Wrongs by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Over the past 10 years, a growing number of reform-minded prosecutors has emerged across the U.S., seeking not only to reform current tough-on-crime practices but also to acknowledge mistakes of the past. For example, in 2018, …
Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
Filed under: Police/Govt Misconduct
No Trust Between Police and Communities They Patrol by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The $14 billion invested in police equipment and community policing in the U.S. has not helped instill trust and camaraderie between the police and black communities, says writer and activist Philip McHarris, in an article published …
Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
Sixth Circuit: Courts May Consider Good Prison Conduct in Sentence Reduction Under First Step Act by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held on April 14, 2020, that a sentencing court may consider a prisoner’s good conduct in fashioning a lower sentence …
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