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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
We have posted many, many articles dealing with systemic racism and criminal justice in this country. We have offered news reports, social studies, and judicial opinions that have built a credible body of evidence that systemic racism is prevalent in: …
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
The brutal March 13, 2020, murder of 26-year-old ER tech Breonna Taylor in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, by local police has become another tragic entry in the history of brutality and systemic racism in American policing. The delay in…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct | SCOTUS
Curtis Flowers was tried six times for the murders of four people in the small northern Mississippi town of Winona. The murders at the local Tardy Furniture Store occurred on July 16, 1996. The 26-year-old African-American Flowers was arrested for…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
The term “systemic racism”—defined by NAACP President Derrick Johnson as “system and structures that have procedures or processes that disadvantages African-Americans”—has become an inherent part of the American lexicon over the past three years. During this same period, President Donald…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
A false allegation of child sexual assault can destroy a person’s life quicker and more thoroughly than any other crime of violence, including a sexual assault of an adult. As criminal defense attorneys, we know this to be true because…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
Judges are human beings like the rest of us. They make smart decisions, and they make decisions that bear little resemblance to logic.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has a tendency—a long history, actually—of making decisions that fall into the latter…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
Mississippi was the second state to secede from the Union and join a treasonous Civil War against the United States. It was a vain effort by white southerners, mostly wealthy plantation owners, to keep black people enslaved. When the “proud…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
According to the National Registry of Exonerations, there have been 2,647 exonerations of people wrongfully convicted in this country since 1989.
There have been thousands more recognized through appellate reversals of convictions. Worse yet, there have even more that have…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
Steve J. Martin is a “prison expert.” His expertise has been utilized by the U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Homeland Security Department, and the federal courts in lawsuits challenging prison conditions, especially those involving the use of excessive force.
In a …
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
An unprecedented 95 percent of Americans favor criminal justice reforms that include police reforms. The National Opinion Research Center (“NORC”) at the University of Chicago found in its report released on June 23, 2020, that Americans support having specific standards…
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