America’s incarceration systems, both jails, and prisons are in dire need of reform. This past year, we have addressed many wide-ranging need for reform throughout the nation’s criminal justice system from arrest through incarceration (here, here, and here). We would…
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2020
Category: Corruption | Fraud | Obstruction of Justice | Uncategorized
In October 2019, Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen was forced to announce that he would not seek reelection. Right-wing political activist Michael Quinn Sullivan of Empower Texans released a recording of Speaker Bonnen providing Sullivan with a hit list of…
2020
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There are roughly 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers in the United States.
In the wake of the February 2020 murder of George Floyd and a series of other recent high profile police homicides against African-Americans, a recent Gallup poll shows…
2020
A pandemic brings out the best in most people and the worst in some.
In 1918, during the Spanish flu pandemic, Oklahoma City public health Commissioner John Duke was determined to save as many people as possible from the flu…
2020
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Insider trading takes place quite frequently in the stock market. Anyone, from an everyday investor to a CEO of a successful company, can and do engage in the illegal activity.
However, prior to the current year, insider trading was…
2019
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Many legal scholars believe that closing arguments are rightly considered the most important phase in a criminal trial. It is the last opportunity defense counsel will have to tip the scale in their favor. Defense attorneys approach closing in different…
2019
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty | Uncategorized
In a July 25, 2019 press release, the U.S. Justice Department (“DOJ”) announced that Attorney General William P. Barr has directed the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to adopt a Proposed Addendum Federal Execution Protocol—a protocol that mirrors the protocols followed…
2018
Michael Selyem is the Deputy District Attorney in San Bernardino County, California. He is the county’s “chief gang prosecutor.”
Selyem, a white man, is currently on paid administrative leave at the direction of San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike…
2018
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law | Fraud | Immigration Crimes | Sex Crimes | Uncategorized
Many different types of crimes fall under federal laws, a vast majority of which tend to fall into just a few categories.
How so? Take a look at the numbers.
In 2016, nearly 68,000 federal cases resulted in…
2017
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With an end of DACA, the Trump administration has turned its attention to undocumented immigration enforcement: increasing the use of private prisons in Texas to house detained undocumented immigrants, targeting businesses that hire undocumented immigrants, and a litany of other…