False Accusations, Innocent People, and Plea Bargains
From time to time, you will find some posts here that concern problems that are not directly related to police misconduct. This report concerns a young man who was falsely accused of rape. On the...
View ArticleNational Registry of Exonerations
From the McClatchy-Tribune (Washington Post, June 10):WASHINGTON — Obie Anthony served hard time in California prisons for a crime he didn’t commit. He’s not alone, and he’s not forgotten. Anthony is...
View ArticleThe Jason Fyk Case: Attempted Murder for Using a Cell Phone?!
Story from WBFF Fox45:A man who took out his cell phone to record an act, that turned out to be a crime, has ended up in jail.The next time you hit record in public in Baltimore you might want to think...
View ArticleFederal Guilty Pleas Soar As Bargains Trump Trials
That’s the headline of a front-page Wall Street Journal article today (sorry, subscription only).It’s great to see more attention to this subject. The average American has no idea how lopsided the...
View ArticleConrad Black on the American ‘Prosecutocracy’
From the New York Sun Opinion Page:The Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments guarantee a grand jury (implicitly, though this is not expressly stated, to ensure against capricious prosecutions), just...
View ArticleFederal Agents Riding to the Rescue to Protect Us
From the Wall Street Journal:Peter Gleason was a psychiatrist who devoted much of his professional life to caring for what government officials call “underserved populations.” He would have been...
View ArticleDisorderly Deputy Arrests Orderly Man With Video Camera
From TwinCities.com:He had been filming from about 30 feet away, he said. Henderson said deputies gave him no warning before Muellner took his camera.The deputy wrote on the citation, “While handling a...
View ArticleThe Aaron Swartz Case
There is much buzz surrounding the recent suicide of Aaron Swartz–and whether prosecutorial abuse by Carmen Ortiz played a part.Glenn Greenwald:Whenever an avoidable tragedy occurs, it’s common for...
View ArticleMore on the Aaron Swartz Case
From the One Generation Away blog:Aaron Swartz was an influential man with very important friends, and that’s why this case is getting so much attention. Sadly, this kind of behavior by prosecutors is...
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