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9 Oct 2011, 7:30 am
Radley Balko has the disturbing details:The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) — even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they’re carried out. [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 11:49 am
Yesterday, FoxNews.com featured an editorial by Reason magazine senior editor Radley Balko about an upcoming hearing in the new murder trial for former death-row prisoner Brewer Kennedy, who was convicted in Mississippi in 1991 and sentenced to death for raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 11:42 am
POLITICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH: Radley Balko notes that former Surgeon General Richard Carmona has his own problems with politicized science: One issue Carmona didn't address is medical marijuana. [read post]
19 Jun 2008, 4:31 am
From Radley Balko's first post about Ryan Frederick: Officer Jarrod Shivers was shot and killed while executing a search warrant in Cheseapeake, Virginia Thursday night. ... [read post]
5 May 2010, 7:39 am
Radley Balko posted it. [read post]
24 Apr 2007, 9:02 pm
RADLEY BALKO: If there's one positive that might come out of the Duke imbroglio, it's that the unusual demographics of the parties involved and alliances it spawned may mean some much-needed new scrutiny of the criminal justice system, and win welcome new advocates for reform. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 4:13 am
Via Radley Balko, MSNBC reports: About 40,000 state laws taking effect at the start of the new year will change rules about getting abortions in New Hampshire, learning about gays and lesbians in California, getting jobs in Alabama and even driving golf carts in Georgia. [read post]
5 May 2019, 4:57 am
Writing in the Washington Post, the Radley Balko is playing a great game of 20 questions in the form of this commentary headlined "Here are 20 criminal-justice and civil liberties questions for the 2020 contenders. [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 9:05 pm
“Shaneen Allen’s prosecutor might be having second thoughts” [Radley Balko, earlier] “If you get a parking ticket, you are guilty until you have proven yourself innocent …. [read post]
19 May 2014, 9:05 pm
Radley Balko weighs in on Philadelphia bodega-robbery scandal: “I want to refer to these thugs as ‘rogue cops,’ but given that [they've thrived] how rogue can they really be? [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 5:23 pm
Original Article 01/25/2010 By Radley Balko The boneheaded logic behind treating "sexting" teens as child pornographers. [read post]
22 Sep 2016, 9:05 pm
Fourth Circuit will review forfeiture case of “pre-conviction, pre-trial restraint of untainted property” [Ilya Shapiro, Cato] “Voodoo Science in the Courtroom: The U.S. has relied on flawed forensic-evidence techniques for decades, falsely convicting many” [Alex Kozinski, WSJ; ABA Journal] “Highest court in Massachusetts throws out another shaken-baby syndrome conviction” [Radley Balko on Boston Globe] Federal judge Andrew Hanen gets… [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 9:05 pm
[Politico, Marler-backed Food Safety News] “Some unanswered questions about private prison quotas” [Paul Gowder, Concurring Opinions] “Smoke A Joint, Lose Your Kids” [Radley Balko] Senate “Stand Your Ground” hearing postponed [earlier]; “From Streaking to Possible Sex Offender to Tragedy” [Free-Range Kids, Reason; related on sex offender registries, Jacob Sullum, ABA Journal] Also related: New app for anonymous… [read post]
3 Jan 2018, 3:03 am
California attorney known for suing bars over “ladies’ nights” sues comedian Iliza Shlesinger over “Girls Night In” show [Gene Maddaus, Variety] “Jury Rejects Damages for Victims of SWAT Raid Based on Wet Tea Leaves Cops Said Was Pot” [Jacob Sullum, Radley Balko, earlier here, here, and here] Before calling Star-Spangled Banner “ode to slavery. [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 9:05 pm
Mississippi AG Jim Hood, a longtime Overlawyered fave, finds way to snipe at opposing death penalty counsel [Radley Balko] Police use forced catheterization to obtain urine samples from unwilling suspects. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 1:16 pm
Writing over at Slate, Radley Balko has this very interesting critique of Senator Obama's latest campaign talk about crime and justice issues. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 4:25 am
See Radley Balko for more.The episode may portend changes both in public perceptions about personal use levels of marijuana as well as unjustified deployment of no-knock raids. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 2:59 am
[Pamela Colloff, ProPublica] Forensics’ alternative-facts problem [Radley Balko] The chemists and the coverup: inside the Massachusetts drug lab scandal [Shawn Musgrave, Reason, earlier here, here, here, etc.] [read post]
11 Aug 2011, 4:01 pm
Earlier this week, Radley Balko wrote about the unreliable science and discredited expert testimony from Michael West that was used to convict Stubbs in the Huffington Post.West testified that faded bite marks matched dental impressions taken of Stubbs and that security camera footage showed her anxiously moving a body, despite the FBI finding nothing incriminating on the same tape. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 9:05 pm
Radley Balko’s work] But her living room furniture was just sitting there! [read post]
