Showing posts with label crime and punishment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime and punishment. Show all posts
Friday, November 16, 2018

Walking that fine line

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On the day after Christmas in 2009, Albert James Turner went to the home of his in-laws in Fort Bend County and killed his wife and mother-i...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Marsy's Law will undermine due process

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At some point I keep hoping folks will realize that the purpose of the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments is to protect individuals accused of brea...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Washington Supreme Court strikes down the death penalty

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Allen Eugene Gregory was not a very good person. In 1996 he robbed, raped and murdered a woman. Two years later he was investigated for anot...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Just spitballing here

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Had a very interesting conversation with a relatively new prosecutor yesterday. We were discussing a case on the trial docket and he was sug...
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Friday, September 7, 2018

Judge finds that City destroyed evidence in jail litigation

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Quick. What is the worst thing you can do when you are the defendant in a multi-million dollar lawsuit alleging you held people in jail for ...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Money to burn

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In its never-ending quest to make prisons as inhospitable as it can (just because it can), the State of Texas spent $7 million fighting a ...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Death, prayers and hypocrisy

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After every school shooting the Republicans, the wingnuts and gun freaks yell from the tops of the tallest buildings that now is not the tim...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Update: Mob rule

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The mob in Santa Clara County spoke loud and clear on Tuesday when they voted to recall Judge Aaron Persky because they thought the sentenc...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Who wants an independent judiciary anyway?

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Today is judgment day for Judge Aaron Persky who gained renown when he sentenced Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to six months in jail and pr...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

A misconception of justice

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One of the most common misconceptions of our criminal (in)justice system is that it's designed to mete out justice to both the citizen a...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Play ball!

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In 1994, Antwinica Bridgeman disappeared after attending a party for her 20th birthday. Her body was found two weeks later by Nevest Coleme...
Friday, February 9, 2018

Tennessee sheriff gets off on killing

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Ordinarily, if you tell someone to shoot someone else - and they do - you're going to find yourself in hot water. But Sheriff Oddie Shou...
Monday, February 5, 2018

A little something to listen to

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I stumbled across a new (at least to me) podcast the other day called Small Town Murder . Every episode focuses on a murder case in a small ...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

What happens when a law prof ventures outside the ivory tower

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Over a year ago I wrote about t he hornets nest that opened around Judge Aaron Persky in Santa Clara, California. You may recall that he pr...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Tallying up the cost of mass incarceration

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Carimah Townes just wrote a very interesting short piece in Think Progress  about the true cost of mass incarceration . While we spend $80 ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Prison inmates sue Texas over conditions

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I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who don't give two damns whether or not the state provides air conditioning for its inm...
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

An attack on discretion

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In theory, a judge should make his or her decisions on the bench without regard to politics. In theory, a judge should be shielded from poli...
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Friday, March 7, 2014

Bending the law to satisfy the need for revenge

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I would hope that we could all agree that the brain of a 13-year-old functions differently than the brain of a 28-year-old. I would hope tha...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Living with perpetual punishment

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I had an interesting conversation with a neighbor yesterday. The day started off with my wife taking the keys to both cars with her to wor...
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Friday, January 10, 2014

Reforming sentencing laws

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It's fairly axiomatic that legislatures generally play catch-up to society. Once there appears to be something of a groundswell around a...
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