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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
Qualified Immunity, Unauthorized Use of Excessive Force by Police
Conway is the county seat of Faulkner County located in central Arkansas. The city’s police department has 127 sworn officers to protect and serve the 65,000 people living in Conway.…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
The Guardian reported in December 2015 that 1,134 black men were killed by the police in the United States of America that year—a rate five times higher than the number of white men killed by the police during the same…
Category: Corruption | Criminal Justice Reform | Federal Criminal Law
It started out as a kids’ game sometime after 2003: Mexican kids, some of whom were teenagers, are known to gather at concrete culverts marking the shortest span and the shallowest point of the Rio Grande River, separating the U.S.…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
The right to bail in this country was firmly planted by the Framers in the original Bill of Rights: the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution specifically prohibits excessive bail.
Much has changed in this nation’s criminal justice system…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | terrorism
It has been said that a civilized society can be measured by its criminal justice system, especially how it treats the worst of its lot.
Since September 11, 2001, terrorists, whether foreign-born or domestic-reared, have been considered by the…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Violent Crime
Although many serious violent crimes can be charged as federal offenses, such crimes are generally charged and prosecuted at the state level. However, this may be about to change according to some new initiatives being put forth the by U.S.…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Immigration Crimes
Of all the troubling promises President Trump made during the 2016 presidential campaign, the promise to round up and deport undocumented immigrants is the one the president had religious stuck with – and with a host of tragic human consequences.…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Guns
Whether or not Larry Recio on May 15, 2015 possessed a firearm was until March 8, 2018 an issue of contention. The contentious issue was resolved that day when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Recio’s “a felon in…
Category: Capital Crimes
Some court decisions are well-reasoned; others are downright dumb. Then there are those decisions that fall into the heartless category.
In macabre detail, the Eighth Circuit issued a March 6, 2018 decision in Bucklew v. Precythe that falls into…
Category: Bank Fraud | Corporate Fraud
In October 2017, The Crime Report said that “white-collar crime is a growth industry.” The Wells Fargo Bank scandal illustrates this point more than any other corporate crime in modern American history.
Last September Steve Hochstadt, writing in the…
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