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Article • June 22, 2019
Florida Judge Rejects ‘Slap on the Wrist’ Sentencing by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss  Former police officers Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez were sentenced on October 17, 2018, to the federal maximum of one year in prison for falsifying arrest affidavits. Dayoub expected only eight months of home confinement and …
Article • June 22, 2019
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Wrongfully Convicted Detroit Man Who Spent 25 Years in Prison Files $125M Suit Alleging Detective Falsified Evidence by Chad Marks by Chad Marks  The cards were stacked against Desmond Ricks when he went to trial for the 1992 murder of Gerry Bennett outside a Detroit Top Hat restaurant. Detroit detectives …
Article • June 22, 2019
Filed under: Forfeiture, Police
Police, Prosecutors Use Asset Forfeitures to Lease SUVs, Customize Motorcycles, Install WiFi at Home, and More by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney Craig Stedman spent more than $21,000 of drug forfeiture money to lease a 2016 Toyota Highlander. After Stedman was ordered to release records …
Article • June 21, 2019
It’s Bad Journalism to Take Cops at Their Word by Matthew McLoughlin by Matthew McLoughlin, Truthout When mainstream news outlets fail to fact-check the police, they fail their readers and they fail our society. Time and time again, by uncritically presenting claims made by police as truths, mainstream news outlets …
Article • June 20, 2019
Arizona Man Faces Deportation After Filing Lawsuit Against Coconino County Sheriff by Lauren Gill Jose Montelongo-Morales challenged the jail’s immigration detainer policy. He and some of his family members were arrested months later. by Lauren Gill, The Appeal  On April 19, at least 10 ICE agents, wearing bulletproof vests and …
Article • June 20, 2019
Filed under: Searches, Police, Traffic stop
Supreme Court Declines Deciding Whether Parking Violation Justifies Seizure of Vehicle by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Seventh Circuit decision permitting the seizure of a parked vehicle for a parking violation, permitting evidence developed during the seizure to be used against …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Former Oneonta police Sergeant Nicholas “Shane” Osborn, who met a boy on the online app Grinder in 2017, was sentenced in May 2019 for multiple sex crimes, court records show. Osborn pleaded guilty and “was sentenced to 20 years in prison on convictions for electronic …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Police
Another Life Ruined as a Result of a Bad Cop and Failure to Follow Policy by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Michael Ryan spent 29 years of his life dedicated to instructing the youth of Hammonton Public Schools. Instead of a retirement party and send off, he was suspended and …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Filed under: Prosecutors
Stop Peeking Inside the Black Box by Locally elected prosecutors wield tremendous, and often unchecked, power. They singlehandedly determine who to prosecute, the charges brought, whether to seek the death penalty when applicable or whether to offer a plea bargain, and they have enormous impact on the recommended sentence.  If …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Over a Year After Cook County Bail Reform, Jails Are Still Full by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell When Cook County, Illinois, Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans issued an administrative order in July 2017 telling judges they had to seriously consider whether someone could afford bail, things got better. A …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
$250,000 Awarded to Woman Who Spent 96 Days in Jail by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A jury in Aberdeen, Mississippi, awarded Jessica Jauch $250,000 after she spent 96 days in jail without seeing a judge. Jauch was arrested on traffic charges in 2012 but was held in the Choctaw …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Getting Rid of the ‘X’ by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Doing time has never been easy, yet the greatest challenges many prisoners face often come after their release. Basic concerns like securing a job, housing, and credit can be recurring nightmares for ex-convicts.  The recent push to “Ban the …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Filed under: FBI
FBI Using Private Ancestry Databases to Zero in on Suspects by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon It has not been long since former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo was identified as the Golden State Killer suspect, a shadowy figure accused of raping and killing his way to infamy, holding a …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Misconduct Suits Against New York City Police Department on the Rise by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney After two years of being on the decline, misconduct suits against New York City’s Police Department (“NYPD”) are on the rise. In 2018, there were 1,586 claims filed compared with 1,391 submitted in …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Filed under: Crime/Demographics
Study: Technology Creates and Embeds Bias in the Criminal Justice System by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Automatic License Plate Readers (“ALPR”), facial recognition technology, and predictive policing are some of the new weapons in the arsenal of the police state. And minority communities are caught in the crosshairs. The …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Modern Forensics Findings Not Always 100 Percent Reliable by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  An extremely important and informative study concerning forensic comparison matches sponsored by The Royal Statistical Society was recently published. It represented cooperative efforts by attorney Dana M. Belger of the Innocence Project’s Strategic Litigation Unit, statisticians …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Police Want Unfettered Access to Consumer DNA Databases by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Law enforcement agencies across the nation are moving toward adopting more genetic genealogy investigative techniques and training from genealogy experts apparently without first considering the implications such practices have on civil rights or any potential abuses. …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Court’s in Session: The Honorable Algorithm Presiding by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to a new report from MIT Technology Review, judges are increasingly relying on “criminal risk assessment algorithms.” The algorithms assign recidivism scores to prisoners that estimate the likelihood he or she may reoffend. A lower score …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Prosecutors Use Blacklists to Keep Dishonest Officers out of the Courtroom by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss District attorney offices across the nation are adopting blacklists of officers whose testimony in court is untrustworthy. Referred to as “do not call lists,” “exclusion lists,” or “Brady lists,” D.A.s have stated that …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Police
Taking Pictures in the Dark: Florida Police Not Forthcoming About Investigations Using Facial Recognition Software by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Florida law enforcement uses what is known as the Face Analysis Comparison Examination System (“FACES”), which selects from more than 33 million driver’s license and law enforcement photographs. FACES …
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