Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Internal investigation? What internal investigation?

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In 2015, the family of Darryl Mount, Jr., filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Saratoga Springs, NY, then Public Safety commis...
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...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

When all else fails, purge the voter rolls

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One thing about the Trump era is that Republicans don't have to even pretend they aren't racial motives behind more restrictive voti...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Goodbye, Aretha

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In memory of Aretha Franklin, here's a couple of tunes guaranteed to make you happy today. Enjoy.
Thursday, August 16, 2018

A senseless death in the Harris County Jail

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Debora Ann Lyons is the second inmate in the Harris County Jail to commit suicide in the last month . Ms. Lyons, who was taken into custody ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

A death in Nebraska and a governor out for bloodlust

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Just how badly does Pete Ricketts want to kill people? Enough that the Nebraska governor and his father spent $300,000 of their own money ...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Former judge sanctioned for jailing a rape victim

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On December 8, 2014, Jenny Doe (her real name may be found in court records but I choose not to publish it), was called to testify in the ra...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Sotomayor's scathing rebuke

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Yesterday afternoon the US Supreme Court decided that the 8th Amendment is merely a useless appendage and denied Billy Ray Irick's reque...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Torture in Tennessee

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Today the state of Tennessee is set to murder inmate Billy Ray Irick using a lethal injection cocktail using midazolam, vecuronium bromide ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Fighting for injustice

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Once again the Republican misdemeanor judges in Harris County have their panties in a wad . And, once again, it has to do with a federal jud...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

We're not gonna take it

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You might remember the name Darryl Fulton from an earlier blog post about his return to his grounds keeping job for the Chicago White Sox af...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

AG calls for a task force for a return to segregation

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For anyone who isn't a wingnut or a complete moron, Attorney General Jeff Session's announcement of a religious liberty task force s...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Houston's white elephant

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One of the casualties of Hurricane Harvey was the Harris County Criminal Justice Center - a 20-story white elephant that has had a laundry l...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Blood spatter backlash

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Before we begin, let us never forget that the foremost ethical duty of a prosecutor is to see that justice is done (whatever that means), no...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Trying to throw a little shade around

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In 2014, attorneys for three death row inmates filed open records requests with the State of Texas seeking to find the source of the drugs u...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Fun with the lexicon

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President Donny has done a lot of highly questionable things but, at least according to the Constitution, treason is not one of them. Trea...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Execution Watch: 7/17/2018

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It's Tuesday night and Texas is looking to kill again... CHRISTOPHER YOUNG . Mr. Young was sentenced to death in 2006 for the murder of...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Nevada execution halted over drugs

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It would appear to the outside viewer that Nevada has just been caught with its pants down. Nevada was looking to be the first state to mu...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

I think that just about covers it

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I can't recall if I've ever recommended Phoebe Judge's excellent podcast Criminal . If you haven't listened, you should give...
Monday, July 9, 2018

Where did the drugs come from?

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Back in February we looked at the stockpile of drugs the State of Texas had on hand to kill inmates . At that time there were 8 doses set to...
Friday, July 6, 2018

Iowa takes exception to shrinking 4th Amendment

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Take that, SCOTUS! And with the stroke of a pen (or, more accurately, the tapping of a few keys), the Iowa Supreme Court decided it wasn...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

The contradictions of July 4

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Okay, I know, it's a day late. But you try getting in front of the computer with a houseful of kids wanting to watch YouTube and Netflix...