In a June 4, 2020 post, we called for the impeachment of U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr because of his role in the government’s criminal assault on June 1, 2020, of peaceful George Floyd protesters in Lafayette Park outside…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
2020
Category: Corruption | Prosecutorial Misconduct
We posted an October 20, 2020 piece calling for the resignation of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. We said the attorney general “is not morally, ethically, or legally fit to hold public office in the Lone Star State. He is…
2020
Category: Corruption | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Williamson County District Attorney Shawn Dick was sworn into office on January 1, 2017. He immediately faced daunting challenges. The three district attorneys before him (Jane Duty, John Bradley, and Ken Anderson) all had serious problems with confirmed instances of…
2020
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…
2020
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…
2020
In August 2013, Greg Kelley, an outstanding football athlete, was arrested on the campus of Leander High School in Leander, Texas, located in Williamson and Travis Counties. He was charged with sexually assaulting a 4-year-old boy at a daycare center…
2020
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Top officials of the Trump administration, including U.S. Attorney General William Barr, claim there is no “systemic racism” in law enforcement in this country. Yet the conservative Republican group, the Lincoln Project, recently called Trump the “second president” of the…
2020
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
How much should a state be required to pay a person it wrongfully convicts and keeps in prison for 43 years?
The State of Florida wrongfully convicted Nathan Meyers and his uncle, Clifford Williams, for a 1976 murder they…
2020
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Roughly 15 parents have thus far elected not to plead guilty in the “college admissions scandal.”
While federal prosecutors have increased their pressure campaign against actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli, along with nine other…
2020
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Winona, a town of slightly more than 5,000 people, sits right in the center of the northern part of Mississippi. It is known as the “Crossroads of North Mississippi” located in Montgomery County.
The town reflects what award-winning author…