Never seen this before, but it is great advice: Remember to update your membership to the ACLU.
Criminal Justice
Probably Guilty of Something Anyway
The FBI is going to review 2,000 cases of hair analysis to see if they were scientifically accurate: In 1981, for instance, an 18-year-old Washington resident named Kirk Odom was convicted of rape and sodomy. At his trial, an FBI analyst testified that Odom’s hair samples and samples taken from the crime scene “were indistinguishable” …
As It Ever Has Been
Perfection: […][F]rom 1993 to early 2011, F.B.I. agents fatally shot about 70 “subjects” and wounded about 80 others — and every one of those episodes was deemed justified, according to interviews and internal F.B.I. records obtained by The New York Times through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The last two years have followed the …
More Hunger Strikers at Guantanamo
. From the NYTimes: A hunger strike among detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who have been imprisoned by the United States military without trial — some for more than a decade — is continuing to grow, although there is sharp disagreement between the military and lawyers for the detainees about how many are participating. As …
Oh, Sure, Now You’re “Looking Into It”
From the NYTimes: LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department will reopen its investigation into the 2007 episode that led to the firing of Christopher J. Dorner, the former police officer who is wanted in three killings, department officials said Saturday night. Mr. Dorner pledged revenge against Los Angeles police officers in a manifesto …
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Good News From the Court
I find it insane that this law passed in the first place: The Supreme Court has rejected an Illinois prosecutor’s plea to allow enforcement of a law aimed at stopping people from recording police officers on the job. The justices on Monday left in place a lower court ruling that found that the state’s anti-eavesdropping …
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
This is nice: Lt. John Pike, the UC Davis police officer who became a focal point of last November’s pepper-spraying incident during a campus protest, is no longer employed by the university, a spokesman confirmed late Tuesday. UC Davis spokesman Barry Shiller said he could not discuss the details of Pike’s departure, but in response …