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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
Martin Luther King, Jr. once observed, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
What the State…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
Who to believe, DNA evidence or third party confession?
At 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 21, 2013, the State of Oklahoma executed Anthony Castillo Sanchez in its death house at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. It marked the tenth…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Brutality | Police Misconduct | Uncategorized
“It is tragic to see a life cut short at 29, with so many milestones unmet, so many words unsaid, and so much potential unfulfilled,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who leads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, at…
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Justice Reform
America is enduring dark times these days.
Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate and a state governor, calls for civil war and praises the jury-convicted insurrectionists with the racists paramilitary groups, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, as “good…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Federal Criminal Law | Police Misconduct
Islam is one of the three Abrahamic religions, just like Christianity and Judaism. None of these religions espouse violence to secure a religious or political objective. But we know that within all religions are fanatical elements that embrace violence and…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
The United States prison population peaked in 2009 with more than two million incarcerated people in state and federal prisons. The nation’s prison population began its world leader growth in 1972 with President Richard Nixon’s “war on crime.” It continued…
The Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) in 2019 formed The Plea Bargain Task Force (Task Force) “to address persistent criticisms of the plea bargain system in the United States. Plea bargaining has become the primary way…
Category: bail reform | Criminal Justice Reform
There are more than 3,000 county jails in the United States. They house more than 650,000 inmates on any given day. Roughly 70 percent of these inmates are pretrial detainees in jail pending trial because they do not have the…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law | Junk Science
With so many television crime drama shows relying on forensic evidence to capture the guilty party, it is understandable why there is a broad misconception in the general public about the value of forensic evidence.
In actuality, flawed forensic evidence …
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Qualified Immunity
Pasadena, Texas, population 152,000, is a suburban community in Harris County that falls on the outskirts of the greater Houston metropolitan area.
In the early morning of March 28, 2019, Pasadena police arrested 32-year-old Jamal Ali Shaw for public intoxication…
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