The crack in the crack
Aug. 17th, 2019 09:20 amMinnesota declares that we should not be impounded in the butt by law enforcement. [City Pages]
Alternatives
Dec. 5th, 2017 05:57 am1.Tribal courts
2. Get a goat or two chickens instead of marrying off your teenage daughter.
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conuly
2. Get a goat or two chickens instead of marrying off your teenage daughter.
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conulyScott Alexander on the horrors of the bail system. We are hearing the radical new suggestion that a large percentage of those charged with crimes could actually be released on their promise to return (and the threat of additional charges if they fail to) with a record of success comparable to those on bail and that family and other ties can be used to determine who qualifies. 50 years ago there were programs that did just that. (I participated in one of them.) They worked.
Less Worse
Aug. 13th, 2013 08:49 amCharles Pierce cheers on a couple of mild outbreaks of sanity in the criminal justice system.
Past meets future
May. 7th, 2012 08:59 amDrone pursues cattle rustler.
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ETA: It's a nonfiction Bat Durston story.
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ETA: It's a nonfiction Bat Durston story.
There is a really annoying petty irony to being falsely accused of failing to return the library's copy of Convicting the Innocent. I've settled that, though, and now I want to put in a plug for the book, which is written by Brandon L. Garrett and published by Harvard.
Convicting the Innocent studies the cases of 150 people who did serious prison time and have since been proven innocent beyond a reasonable doubt by DNA evidence. It shows the problems with confessions, eyewitness testimony, and perhaps worst of all, jailhouse snitches.
For a long time, I was neutral on the death penalty. I don't have strong feelings about it, but most people do, in ways that cannot be settled by further factual evidence. What I do have strong feelings about is making sure we've got the actual perp, especially if we're going to kill the person we convict, and this book, and the specific case of Troy Davis, have convinced me that as long as there's a death penalty, we're going to kill innocent people, or at least people we aren't sure enough about.
Convicting the Innocent studies the cases of 150 people who did serious prison time and have since been proven innocent beyond a reasonable doubt by DNA evidence. It shows the problems with confessions, eyewitness testimony, and perhaps worst of all, jailhouse snitches.
For a long time, I was neutral on the death penalty. I don't have strong feelings about it, but most people do, in ways that cannot be settled by further factual evidence. What I do have strong feelings about is making sure we've got the actual perp, especially if we're going to kill the person we convict, and this book, and the specific case of Troy Davis, have convinced me that as long as there's a death penalty, we're going to kill innocent people, or at least people we aren't sure enough about.
Laws named after dead children
Jul. 11th, 2011 04:44 pmRadley Balko on what's wrong with Caylee's Law.
For the children
Apr. 14th, 2011 10:04 amA man did a video in which he sang a suggestive song, and spliced in pictures of children so it looked as if they were listening. For this act of abuse twice removed, he is going to jail.
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eatsoylentgreen
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eatsoylentgreenThe Ministry of Truth gets one right
Dec. 27th, 2010 07:13 amIn the UK, they are going to expunge all convictions for homosexual acts that should never have been crimes. Here, they punish the unjustly convicted if they don't register as sex offenders.
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andrewduckerSanity in the UK
Jul. 10th, 2010 11:35 am[British] Supreme Court rules gay asylum seekers can't be deported to persecution. Ours should do likewise.
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coyotegoth(no subject)
Oct. 13th, 2009 11:45 amThere are times when the legal system could profit from allowing a writ of copulo non compos mentis (are you out of your fucking mind?). A judge attempts to approximate it in dealing with Orly Taitz, and rightly so.
(Surely by now someone has pointed out that he who has a Taitz is lost.)
(Surely by now someone has pointed out that he who has a Taitz is lost.)
