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Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
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Capitol Police Department Repeatedly Sued Over Racial Discrimination by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Over 250 Black police officers have sued the U.S. Capitol Police (“USCP”) since 2001 over allegations of racism and discrimination. ProPublica’s January 14, 2021, article by Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien highlights how this past …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Hundreds Serving Life Due to Less Than Unanimous Jury Verdicts by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon After the U.S. Civil War and followingthe 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution that banned slavery, laws designed to disadvantage Black people were passed throughout former Rebel states. Those legislative acts became known …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Nevada Supreme Court Reverses Conviction for Murdering Sixth Wife Due to Improper Prior Bad-Act Evidence Regarding Murder of Second Wife by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Supreme Court of Nevada reversed Thomas Randolph’s conviction for murdering his sixth wife because the trial court erroneously admitted evidence of the similar …
Washington Supreme Court Announces Misconduct of Petitioner’s Own Counsel Can Be Basis for Equitable Tolling in Habeas Proceeding by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a case of first impression in the Supreme Court of Washington, the Court, sitting en banc, adopted the federal standard enunciated in Lawrence v. Florida, …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Hidden Sentences by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins No one was surprised when Florida again topped the list of “battleground states” in the run up to the 2020 presidential election, but the media narrative most frequently heard as November approached was not about hanging chads or turnout in Miami-Dade County. …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Law Degree for South Carolina Magistrates Optional by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. In South Carolina, if your career plan is to become a licensed barber, you will need to satisfy about 1,500 hours of coursework. However, in this same state, if you aspire to be a state …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Tech Company Enables Total Surveillance by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A little-known tech company in Texas has dramatically altered the landscape of digital police surveillance. Hawk Analytics, headquartered in Bartonville, Texas, has developed software that streamlines the process police use to turn the huge quantities of information they obtain …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Policing Prostitution in New York by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Undercover operations to combat street prostitution are standard fare in pop-culture depictions of big-city police work, but the reality is often seedier than television dramatizations. A 2020 investigation by journalists at ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, revealed that New …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Image of Men Urinating on Grave Protected by First Amendment by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (“TBI”) and officers with the Dickson Police Department would be well advised to take the time to read the Constitution of the United States, namely …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Shifting View of Criminal Justice in U.S. by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Gallup began measuring American attitudes about criminal justice in 1992. As the U.S. was in the midst of a wave of media sensationalizing violent crime, it should come as no surprise that 83% of Americans in that …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Philadelphia Man Exonerated After Police Cover-Up Exposed by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On December 16, 2020, Termaine Hicks received what he calls “the best news I’ve heard in all my life.” Hicks learned that, after 19 years in prison for crimes he did not commit, he was finally …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
New Jersey Man Wrongly Arrested Due to Flawed Face Recognition Match by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso After being identified by faulty facial recognition software, a New Jersey man spent 10 days in jail and forfeited his savings to beat the charges. Nijeer Parks, 33, had two previous convictions for …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN May, 2021
New Jersey Supreme Court Announces Adoption of Framework for Evaluating Discovery Motions Challenging Warrant Affidavits Based on Unidentified Confidential Informants by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of New Jersey announced its adoption of the framework articulated by the California Supreme Court in People v. Luttenberger, 784 P.2d …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Faulty Forensics and Wrongful Convictions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Faulty forensics play a major role in causing known wrongful convictions in the United States. Just how big of a role the application of science to justice plays in sending the innocent to prison depends upon your definition of …
Seventh Circuit Affirms Vacatur of Death Sentence Based on Newly Discovered Evidence of Defendant’s Intellectual Disability by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana’s vacatur of Bruce Carneil Webster’s death sentence based …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Seventh Circuit: Indiana’s Sex Offender Registration Act’s ‘Other Jurisdiction Requirement’ Unconstitutional Violation of Right to Travel by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana’s opinion that found a provision of Indiana’s Sex Offender …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Ohio Supreme Court: Retroactive Application of Sexually Violent Predator Law Violates Ex Post Facto Clause by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Court of Ohio held that applying a harsher version of the state’s sexually violent predator law (“SVP”) retroactively to criminal conduct that occurred prior to that newer …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Alabama Supreme Court Announces Testimony About Cell-Site Location Data Is ‘Scientific’ Expert Testimony, Not Lay, Triggering Daubert Analysis by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso In its January 8, 2021, opinion, the Supreme Court of Alabama held that a law enforcement agent’s testimony about how historical cell-site data could be used …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
Maryland Court of Appeals: MTA’s Fare Sweep Constitutes Suspicionless Seizure in Violation of Fourth Amendment by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeals of Maryland affirmed a decision of the Court of Special Appeals (“COSA”) that held police officers from the Maryland Transit Administration (“MTA”) violated Kennard Carter’s …
Article • March 15, 2021 • from CLN April, 2021
North Carolina Supreme Court: Judge May Not Reject Informed Guilty Plea Because Defendant Refuses to Admit He’s Factually Guilty by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Supreme Court of North Carolina held a trial court erred in refusing to accept a criminal defendant’s tendered guilty plea because he refused …
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