Omar Mateen’s shooting rampage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida on September 14, 2016 left 49 people dead and another 53 seriously injured. The New York Times called the mass shooting “the worst terrorist attack on American soil since…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
Apr.15
2018
2018
The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino reports that hate crimes increased by roughly 20 percent in the 13 largest U.S. cities in 2017 compared to 2016.
Hate Crimes Against…
Mar.30
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
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.…
Mar.30
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
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…
Mar.29
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
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.…
Mar.28
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
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…
Mar.11
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Federal Criminal Law
Mark A. Cowden was a bad cop long before he assaulted an arrestee, Ryan Hamrick, on January 27, 2015. He spent twenty-six years with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department in New Cumberland, West Virginia—fourteen of those years as a sergeant…
Jan.30
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Forfeiture
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, nicknamed “Buddy” as a kid growing up in Hybart, Alabama, got his law degree from the University of Alabama in 1973. He practiced law in the mid-1970s before being appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District…
Jan.16
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
There are two safeguards against prosecutorial misconduct during a criminal trial: a good defense attorney and an impartial trial judge.
Both failed Frederick Michael Baer during his capital murder trial for the brutal murder of a 24-year-old mother and…
Jan.16
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Capital Crimes | Criminal Justice Reform
The n-word has a long, sordid history in this country. The African-American Registry says that, “Nigger is one of the most notorious words in American culture.”
The precise origins of the word in American culture is uncertain, but history…
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