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Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Unjust Civil Asset Forfeiture in Phenix City, Alabama by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Civil asset forfeiture (“CAF”) began as a legal way to take oceangoing vessels from owners who allowed their ships to violate customs regulations, laws, or outright contraband smuggling. After the first declaration of the war on …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Florida Police Accused of Misconduct Given Second Chances by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Over three decades, thousands of Florida police officers and prison guards were given a second chance. More than 500 were subsequently decertified after engaging in further misconduct, the Naples Daily News reported in an investigative …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
The Vallejo Cop Controversy: Whistleblowers Expose a Secret Club of Killers by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Police shootings across the country in recent years have raised questions about how cops are trained and their attitudes toward the local communities they are supposed to protect and serve. Under what circumstances …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Fusion Technology Enables Vast Police Surveillance by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins When George Orwell imagined the dystopian society of 1984, humanity simply did not possess the technology to bring his vision of the omnipresent surveillance state to life, even if there was no shortage of governments that wanted to …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Building Data on Police Conduct by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Law enforcement agencies, like all bureaucratic institutions, generate extraordinary numbers of documents, records, and data. As calls for greater police accountability have grown across the country, one of the primary obstacles to building consensus about the problems in policing …
Article • July 15, 2021 • from CLN August, 2021
Domestic Terrorism Laws and Civil Liberties by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Proposed legislation coming in the wake of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot would add “domestic terrorism” to the long list of federal crimes. Amid the unsettled atmosphere in Washington, D.C., the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021 …
Article • July 9, 2021
Baltimore Cop’s Teen Stepson Pronounced Dead After Being Found Hidden in Wall of Family’s Home by An officer with the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) was taken into custody on July 3, 2021, at his suburban home in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, after scuffling with local police responding to a custody-dispute …
Article • June 29, 2021
Filed under: Dogs, Roving Bugs/Wiretaps
The Art of Defeating Robot Dogs by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian I’ve always known I didn’t trust humans with developing robotic technology. Of all the concerns I have, I now have to add possible mortal combat with robotic dogs to the list. Thanks Boston Dynamics. But thanks to …
Article • June 21, 2021
Civil Rights Investigation Sought Over “No-Knock” Raid On Wrong Michigan Home by A Michigan family terrorized by state police raiding their Flint home to erroneously execute a “no-knock” warrant requested a federal civil rights investigation on June 7, 2021, according to a report by MLive. After the raid on April …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Deliberately Convicting the Innocent: Exonerations Expose the Criminal Justice System’s Callous Indifference Toward Official Misconduct by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In 1987, in Williamson County, Texas, 32-year-old Michael Morton was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his 31-year-old wife, Christine. The young mother of a three-year-old son had …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Tenth Circuit: District Courts Have Authority to Decide What Constitutes ‘Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons’ for Compassionate Release After First Step Act by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In a case that received much attention in the compassionate release arena, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held on …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Warrantless Arrest Designed to Elicit a Confession Constitutes Flagrant Misconduct Requiring Suppression of Confession by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (“TCCA”) reversed Jesse Adrian Martinez’s conviction after determining that the Court of Appeals (“COA”) misapplied the factors of Brown …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Failure to Object to Improper Jury Instruction and Curative Instruction by Court Containing ‘Freudian Slip’ Constitutes IAC by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania found a defendant’s counsel constitutionally ineffective where they failed to object to improper jury instructions, and there was further …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Filed under: Habeas Corpus
Federal Habeas Corpus: Discovery and Expanding the Record by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Winning in federal habeas corpus comes down to whether the record either supports or forecloses your claims. Your goal is to develop the record with arguments and evidence that are not in the current criminal record …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Illinois Supreme Court Announces Person Seeking Certificate of Innocence Need Only Prove Innocence of Originally Prosecuted Theory of Offense, not Every Conceivable Theory by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Supreme Court of Illinois held that a petitioner for a certificate of innocence under § 2-702(g)(3) of the Code of …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
An Ignoble Process How High-Pressure Tactics and Flawed Investigative Techniques Created a Miscarriage of Justice by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Christopher Tapp’s wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration is a case-study of overwhelming failures during the criminal justice process. It is an example of how abusive tactics and investigative …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Inflation Increases Likelihood of Felony Theft Charges by David Reutter by David M. Reutter About 45,000 Americans were imprisoned for thefts of less than $10,000, a 2016 report by the Brennen Center for Justice at New York University found. As inflation rises, the chance of a petty theft becoming a …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Report Shows Cellphone Searches Common by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have recently engaged in a series of very public quarrels with tech companies over the inability to unlock and search the smartphones of suspects in high-profile murder and terrorism cases. Companies …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Iowa Supreme Court: Successful Adjustment to Sex Offender Registry Requirements Not a Reason to Deny Modification by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Supreme Court of Iowa ruled that a district court erred in its analysis of a petition to modify sex offender registry requirements. According to the Court, …
Article • June 15, 2021 • from CLN July, 2021
Filed under: Double jeopardy
California Court of Appeal: Defendant Cannot Be Convicted of Robbery and Kidnapping to Commit Robbery for Same Act by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Eight, vacated a defendant’s conviction for robbery because he had been convicted for kidnapping to commit …
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