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Article • October 15, 2021
Filed under: Police Misconduct
Miami Seeks to Oust Recently Hired Police Chief Once Hailed as ‘Best Chief in America’ by In a letter sent October 11, 2021, Miami City Manager Art Noriega suspended the chief of the city’s police department, Art Acevedo, and said he would be fired. The move comes just months after …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Experts Agree: Police Public Relations Consistently Mislead the Public by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Police officers have, for much of American history, had a remarkable hold on public trust. That hold, however, has loosened in recent years as the ubiquity of cameras has grown and more police misconduct is …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Ninth Circuit Announces All 3 Subsections Must Be Satisfied to Deny Safety-Valve Relief Under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In a case of first impression under the First Step Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the word “and” in …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Georgia Supreme Court Announces Merger Error Claims During Sentencing May Be Raised for First Time in Habeas Petition by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso THe Supreme Court of Georgia held that claims of merger error during sentencing may be raised for the first time in a properly filed habeas …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A former Alabama cop convicted of murdering a mentally ill and suicidal man in his own home reported to a state prison in Montgomery on September 6, 2021, to begin serving a 25-year sentence he received for the crime, according to Huntsville TV station WAFF. …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Ohio, Now 24th State to End LWOP for Juveniles by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. In a long-awaited state enactment, Ohio Governor, Mike Dewine, signed into law, SB 256 which, among other provisions, bans sentences for life without parole (“LWOP”) and retroactively alters parole eligibility for minors sentenced …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: junk science
Current Forensic Sciences Not as Objective as Most Believe by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Television may well be the most effective propaganda tool in the world, especially when it comes to portraying forensic scientists and their laboratories as dispassionate and dedicated professionals and their laboratories as pristine and state-of-the-art …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
"Eighth Circuit: Government Breached Plea Agreement by Endorsing PSR’s Calculation of Higher Base Offense Level Than Plea Agreement, Curing Breach Not Recognized in Circuit" by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that the Government breached a plea agreement because the …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Justice Department Orders All Federal Agents to Wear Body Cameras by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On September 1, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced it was implementing the first phase of its Body-Worn Camera (“BWC”) with federal agents in the Detroit and Phoenix field offices of the …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: No-Knock Warrants
Justice Department Bans Chokeholds and Restricts No-Knock Entries for Federal Agents by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”)—parent agency of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the U.S. Marshals Service; and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives—announced on September 14, …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
DNA Standards Often Make the Difference Between Life and Death by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. DNA analysis standards can make the difference between misleading results and the truth behind a crime, so much so, that this highly sensitive analysis is often the deciding factor in ruling life …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
California Supreme Court Announces Predicate Offenses for Gang Enhancement or Gang Participation Not Provable Using Expert Witness Testimony Without Personal Knowledge of Facts by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Supreme Court of California held that, for charges of gang participation and gang enhancements under California Penal Code, § subdivisions …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Study Shows Public Defenders Outperform Court Appointed Private Attorneys by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Defendants, put your checkbooks away. The age-old assumption that private defense attorneys provide a more comprehensive and effective defense than do public defenders may simply not be true. A February 2021 analysis initiated …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
NYC’s Stop-and-Frisk Still Targets Based on Race by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins New York City’s 2021 mayoral candidates faced the same issues that plague every metropolitan area—crime, COVID, climate change—but questions about the city’s allegedly reformed “stop-and-frisk” policy occupied a prominent place in the debates. The practice, which began …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
SCOTUS Reinstates Death Sentence Reversed by Eleventh Circuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Supreme Court of the United States reinstated the death sentence of an Alabama man who had been convicted of murder. The Eleventh Circuit had reversed, in part, the conviction based on the incorrect claim that …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: Police Misconduct
Police Do Not Want to Pay for Damage They Inflicted to Texas Home by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Wesley Little had an hours-long standoff with McKinney, Texas, police in Vicki Baker’s home after running off with a 15-year-old girl. Baker was not home at the time, and the 15-year-old …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: Police Misconduct
Florida’s Worst Cop Fired for 7th Time by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins All German Bosque ever wanted was to be a cop. When he was kicked out of the police academy for theft of a motor vehicle and impersonating an officer, some in law enforcement may have dismissed his …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Investigative Report Highlights Difficulties in Disciplining Cops by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Can you imagine a community where police abuse arbitration hearings and misconduct cases resulted in costs to taxpayers numbering in the millions of dollars, only to realize that these same unruly and abusive officers, though …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
The Real Minority Report Predictive Policing Algorithms Reflect Racial Bias Present in Corrupted Historic Databases by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In Steven Spielberg’s science fiction movie, Minority Report, police armed with nebulously sourced predictions of people who are supposedly going to commit murder before they can actually do so. …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Announces Premature Sex Offender Classification of Incarcerated Offender Who Accepted Classification Violates Procedural Due Process by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney  The Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) of Massachusetts held that a premature sex offender classification for an incarcerated offender who has waived her right to a …
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