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23 Jun 2015, 6:17 am
Via Radley Balko: Frost has said he was not using his high beams, but was driving a new police car that apparently had unusually bright headlights. [read post]
21 Jun 2015, 9:15 pm
The malady is not recognized by the organized medical profession; its key symptoms appear to be the presence of cops, often wielding tasers, and the absence of any other clear cause of death [Dahlia Lithwick via Radley Balko] Tags: forensics, policeA coroner’s guide to “excited delirium” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 9:05 pm
” [Orange County Weekly via Radley Balko] Maryland reforms mandatory minimums [Scott Shackford/Reason, Sen. [read post]
10 Jun 2015, 11:52 am
(Radley Balko reported, "According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Brown is the 12th death row exoneration since 2013, and the fourth death row inmate exonerated so far this year. [read post]
1 Jun 2015, 5:09 am
Walter Olson at Overlawyered has been pounding this point home for a long time, as has Radley Balko. [read post]
29 May 2015, 7:23 am
As Radley Balko has pointed out, structuring (or "smurfing") charges are extremely flexible. [read post]
27 May 2015, 2:52 am
Kick out the pseudo-science and fix the broken incentives for witnesses and information gatherers, advises Radley Balko, which happens to be good advice on the civil forensics/expert witness side as well. [read post]
21 May 2015, 5:31 am
And, as Radley Balko noted on the twitters, Americans have historically shown a desire to repeal the Bill of Rights, in no small part demonstrating that they were unfamiliar with the fact that the crazy ideas about which they were being surveyed came, in fact, from the Bill of Rights. [read post]
19 May 2015, 2:22 am
Radley Balko: According to NBC News, the new policy will stop “tanks and other tracked armored vehicles, weaponized aircraft and vehicles, firearms and ammunition measuring .50-caliber and larger, grenade launchers and bayonets” from being given to local police agencies. [read post]
13 May 2015, 9:05 pm
The magic of immunity: DEA commandeered truck for fatal sting, but doesn’t owe owner even the cost of bullet holes [Houston Chronicle, Radley Balko, Scott Greenfield] Federal takeover of local policing is a truly bad idea [Glenn Reynolds, USA Today; Elizabeth Price Foley] Some of government’s worst messes come when there’s bipartisan agreement, as with lack of police accountability [Coyote] “Is Rakoff the Only Judge Not In Love with DOJ? [read post]
11 May 2015, 4:46 am
As Radley Balko notes: The whole concept of jailhouse informants defies credulity. [read post]
7 May 2015, 10:39 am
Radley Balko effectively takes a few Washington Post columnists to task for their articles criticizing Hillary Clinton's recent statements on our unjust mass incarceration policies. [read post]
1 May 2015, 4:25 am
He teaches at John Jay College of Coppery and Shoe Repair, and even served as guest blogger at Radley Balko’s Agitator, back when Radley was still a blogger and had yet to achieve international fame. [read post]
30 Apr 2015, 6:04 am
Mike Riggs was one, Radley Balko another. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 9:15 pm
Radley Balko followed up with a post summarizing my argument and adding an important point, which is that these laws can provide a covert way for departments to sabotage investigations so as to help out fellow officers, by introducing seemingly inadvertent errors that ensure that charges will later have to be thrown out. [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 9:05 pm
Times “DealBook”] A Brooklyn mess: new D.A. looking into 70 convictions obtained with evidence from retired detective Louis Scarcella [Radley Balko] Tags: banks, crime and punishment, forfeiture, New York, NYC, prosecutionProsecution roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 5:17 am
Radley Balko explains: Meanwhile, the Maryland couple harassed by Child Protective Services earlier this year for letting their kids walk home alone just had another frightening encounter with the agency. [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 10:58 am
As Radley Balko has written about in detail, St. [read post]
6 Apr 2015, 4:36 am
” Radley Balko also discusses the petition at The Washington Post’s The Watch. [read post]
31 Mar 2015, 9:15 pm
Radley Balko on the aftermath of a Cambridge, Md. [read post]
