Here’s a powerful, uplifting story about a (now retired) judge who understands the importance of redemption. Here’s yet another wrongful conviction from the era of former Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes. Our prison population is getting old. And caring for the growing mass of aging prisoners may not be sustainable. Newark wants a civilian review board with […]
This week in drug raids: A dead cop, a dead suspect, a wounded cop and a terrified, hospitalized grandmother
The beat goes on. A sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot and another was injured while serving a warrant in Indiana early Sunday, officials said. The shooting took place just after midnight in a trailer park in the town of Russiaville, about 60 miles north of Indianapolis, according to the Howard County Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Carl […]
Morning links: Justice Department to expand review of FBI forensics
The Justice Department will expand its review of how the FBI has presented forensic evidence in the courtroom beyond hair and fiber matching to other disciplines, such as fingerprint-matching and ballistics. In Jackson, Miss., an innocent motorist is dead after police engaged in a high-speed chase with someone suspected of shoplifting. Chicago’s bill for police […]
Private eye turns justice crusader
ReasonTV has the story of C.J. Ford, a private investigator who became radicalized after the Rampart scandal and now offers his services to indigent defendants and works to free the wrongly convicted. He’s one of the champions of Kenneth Clair, a California prisoner who might be exonerated by DNA . . . if only Orange County would let […]
Today in sad open records news
I’m a bit late to this, but during Sunshine Week earlier this month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation presented the 2016 Foilies, the awards for the worst government abusers of open records laws. Among the winners: Hillary Clinton, Kim Davis, the state of Georgia, the city of Inglewood, the TSA, and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. The […]
Morning links: Missouri judge guts law to reform predatory municipal courts
A Missouri judge has gutted some key reforms in the new law to change the state’s predatory municipal court system. An NYPD officer killed a woman’s tail-wagging dog while investigating a domestic incident that didn’t involve the dog or the owner. The city then sent her a $265 bill to pay for the dog’s cremation. Justice […]
Video shows white cops performing roadside cavity search of black man
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on an investigative series about police abuse in South Carolina. I’ve found a dizzying number of cases, including illegal arrests, botched raids, fatal shootings and serious questions about how all those incidents are investigated. Many of these cases were previously unreported, or if they were reported, the […]
Morning links: South Carolina municipal courts under fire
Report finds that poor people accused of misdemeanors in South Carolina’s magistrate and municipal courts are often deprived of counsel, resulting in de facto debtors’ prisons across the state. If the sex isn’t a crime, the sexting shouldn’t be, either. More evidence that the San Francisco Police Department has a problem with bigotry. Tennessee was […]
Video: Illegal traffic stop leads to beating and illegal medical procedures in S.C.
Last week, I posted a disturbing video of a 2014 traffic stop in Aiken, S.C., in which a black couple were pulled over by a white police officer without cause. By the end of the stop, deputies had searched the couple’s car, searched the woman’s body, and according to the audio, appear to have performed a cavity search […]
Aiken, S.C., officials, newspaper react to story about roadside search
About 10 days ago, I first reported about the traffic stop and apparent cavity search involving a black couple in Aiken, S.C. The story has since taken off and spurred some interesting reaction back in Aiken. When I first asked Aiken Department of Public Safety Capt. David Turno about the incident, he told me that it had […]
Aiken, S.C., officials, newspaper react to story about roadside search
About 10 days ago, I first reported about the traffic stop and apparent cavity search involving a black couple in Aiken, S.C. The story has since taken off and spurred some interesting reaction back in Aiken. When I first asked Aiken Department of Public Safety Capt. David Turno about the incident, he told me that it had […]
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