Skip navigation

Search

4160 results
Page 89 of 208. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 ... 204 205 206 207 208 | Next »

Article • July 24, 2021
Filed under: False Arrest
Refusing Cop's Request for ID Wasn't Cause for Arrest by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell   A Stafford County, Virginia, ordinance requiring someone to show their ID to a police officer if requested did not allow an arrest if the person refused to show his ID. That was the court's …
Article • July 23, 2021
New Data Show NYC Gets Better, Safer Results Sending Non-Police in Response To Mental Health 911 Calls by Calls to “defund the police”—shifting budget dollars from policing to social services, whose professionals are better trained to respond to many 911 calls—got a huge credibility boost from a pilot program that …
Article • July 21, 2021
Filed under: Dogs, Roving Bugs/Wiretaps
NYPD Forced to Put Down “Digidog” Robot by On April 22, 2021, following a public outcry, the City of New York Police Department (NYPD) terminated a $94,000 contract with Boston Dynamics to test a four-legged robotic “dog” that uses artificial intelligence — rather than a remote human operator — to …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Filed under: Mental Health Experts
Reevaluating Capital Punishment and Psychosis: How Sane Must We Be to Qualify for Execution? by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. You have been assigned to be a juror in each of the following cases, and your responsibility is to decide which of these guilty suspects is sane enough …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Virginia Prosecutors to Dismiss 400 Drug Convictions Tied to Disgraced Cop by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In an April 2021 state court hearing, Fairfax, Virginia, prosecutors began the process of vacating or dismissing over 400 criminal convictions out of over 900 cases linked to disgraced former cop Jonathan A. …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Filed under: Traffic Stops
Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Blank Check Traffic Stops by John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead “The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim of every cop …
U.S. District Court Grants Compassionate Release Based Entirely on Nearly Three-Decade-Old Sentencing Error, Reduces Life Sentence by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Citing a sentencing error from 27 years ago, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted compassionate release to a man serving a life sentence for …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Decades of Data Link Juvenile Lead Exposure and Criminal Behavior by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Is there an identifiable and preventable cause of crime? Experts have related trends in criminal activity to the economy, law enforcement-related activity and presence, societal demographics, and certain cultural issues. Causation has allegedly …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Fourth Circuit: Appeal Waiver Does Not Bar Challenge to Special Conditions Not Orally Pronounced in Open Court by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a challenge to non-mandatory conditions of supervised release that were not orally pronounced in open court …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Filed under: housing
New Jersey Governor Celebrates Juneteenth by Signing ‘Ban the Box’ Into Law by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy commemorated the inaugural federal Juneteenth holiday on June 18, 2021, by signing into law the Fair Chance in Housing Act (“FCHA”), prohibiting landlords from requesting someone’s criminal …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Connecticut Supreme Court: Use of Jailhouse Informant Violated Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Connecticut ruled that under Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 (1964), and its progeny, a jailhouse informant can be an agent of the State—even in the …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
New York City Ends Qualified Immunity for Police by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 25, 2021, the New York City Council voted to end qualified immunity for police officers. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he will sign the measure making New York the first city …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Physics Offers New Perspective on Blood Spatter Investigations by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Blood Spatter Analysis (“BPA”) for years has been a state of the art, highly-sophisticated forensic consideration in determining the trajectory and origin of a crime scene gunshot, yet recent advancements in physics have now …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
A New Age of Video Analytics by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Video footage from security cameras is common fare in a variety of modern movies and television shows, but depictions in popular culture rarely offer an accurate portrayal of the state of surveillance technology or the way police or …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Simple Training Can Prevent Police From Mistaking Gun for Taser by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 13, 2021, Police Chief Tim Gannon from Brooklyn Center, Minnesota (a city bordering Minneapolis), said he believed then-Police Officer Kim Potter’s fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was unintentional. …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Clarifies Interpretation of Aggravating Provisions of Section 22.01(b)(2)(A) and (B), Charging One Provision at Guilt Phase Doesn’t Confer Jurisdiction to Argue Other Provision at Sentencing Phase by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas held that Texas Penal Code …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Ninth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Officers Who Coerced 13-Year-Old to Falsely Confess to Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California’s denial …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Seventh Circuit Holds Hobbs Act Robbery Not ‘Crime of Violence’ for Career Offender Enhancement, Likely IAC for Not Anticipating Outcome by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit joined most other circuits and held that Hobbs Act robbery does not meet the definition …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
SCOTUS Holds LWOP for Juveniles Does Not Require Finding of Incorrigibility by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) held on April 22, 2021, that a sentencing court may impose life without parole (“LWOP”) on a juvenile without making a finding of incorrigibility on …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Maryland Court of Appeals: Erroneous Anti-CSI Jury Instruction Was Not Harmless Error by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“COA”) reversed a judgment of the Court of Special Appeals (“COSA”) that held the trial court’s error in giving an anti-CSI jury instruction was harmless. A …
Page 89 of 208. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 ... 204 205 206 207 208 | Next »