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8 Sep 2012, 2:57 am
At worst, it ended the charade of agencies handing off property to other agencies to do as they will, and wouldn't make a ripple as far as the victims of forfeiture are concerned.But the efforts of Eapan Thampy, head of Americans for Forfeiture Reform, who has been guest-blogging up a storm at Radley Balko's Agitator, has kept forfeiture on my mind. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 9:03 pm
Now, in Henry, Tennessee — named after Patrick Henry, of “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” fame — the police chief has told the town he needs a police dog because “the city is missing out on possible revenues” [dog testimonials; more Tennessee, via Eapen Thampy of Americans for Forfeiture Reform, guestblogging last month at Radley Balko's Agitator site] Also via Thampy, economically hard-hit Butte County, California, north of Sacramento,… [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 4:29 am
Radley Balko wrote at least they get points for honesty. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 1:55 pm
As Radley Balko explains, this can lead to bogus asset forfeitures: The consequences of misusing police dogs go well beyond unconstitutional searches. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 4:11 am
For quite a while, Radley Balko has been drawing a line between the militarization of police and the scope and depth of damage done in the name of order. [read post]
12 Aug 2012, 3:56 am
While Radley Balko is busy studying up for his CPA exam (or something like that), he's got some friends providing guests posts at the Agitator. [read post]
5 Aug 2012, 9:06 pm
Wagner, cf. also Jonah Goldberg] “Truck owner wants DEA to pay up after botched sting” [Houston Chronicle via Radley Balko] Vaccine critic’s Texas action: “Andrew Wakefield’s libel suit against Brian Deer: Dismissed! [read post]
31 Jul 2012, 3:11 am
Some mix it up, like Radley Balko, Walter Olson and occasionally Doug Berman, I enjoy the benefits of their efforts, as they find stories, decisions and cases that spark my interest and compel me to write something. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 6:28 am
It’s a fairly mild enactment as these things go, but any hint that juries are free to acquit a defendant to avoid injustice is deeply controversial in establishment legal circles [Tim Lynch/Cato Institute, Radley Balko, Reason] Tweet Tags: jury nullification, New Hampshire New Hampshire passes jury nullification law is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 3:24 am
Radley Balko has beaten that myth to death. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 9:18 pm
A survivor.Who forgives.h/t Radley Balko [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 2:51 am
What a mess.H/T Radley Balko and Gideon Strumpet, whose twitting about the story helped to frame the problems and raise the conflicting concerns.Update: It seems that Kentucky is somewhat renown for its strict confidentiality of juvenile proceedings: Kentucky shrouds its juvenile courts behind some of the strictest secrecy laws in the nation, requiring the public to accept on faith that it is being protected from dangerous children -- and that innocent… [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 6:31 am
Radley Balko, who followed the case closely when it happened, has a good discussion of new revelations in the article. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 4:39 am
So rather than waste the space (and your time) with my thoughts, I bring those of others.At Radley Balko's Agitator, where Radley has turned over the keys to some very interesting folks while he recovers from the hair transplants, In a story by Ken White (who has been quite prolific and compelling lately) of his youth, remembers the day he was taken by a judge to the Veterans of Foreign Wars to fulfill part of a promise made decades earlier, upon… [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 9:04 pm
’” [Conor Friedersdorf] Crise de foie: California’s ban on livers of overfed fowl results in evasion, coinage of word “duckeasy” [Nancy Friedman] In defense of policy entrepreneur Rick Berman [David Henderson] The federal definition of macaroni [Ryan Young, CEI] How food safety regulation can kill [Baylen Linneken, Reason] We’ve got a nice little town here, don’t try to grow food in it [same] And the prolific Linnekin is guest-blogging at… [read post]
28 Jun 2012, 10:44 pm
This month, in the Kimberlin v. [read post]
16 Jun 2012, 11:29 am
RADLEY BALKO: Myths and Misconceptions About Indiana’s New Self-Defense Law. [read post]
16 Jun 2012, 4:10 am
It brings such ideas closer to the mainstream, to public acceptance, by the mere fact that Slate has chosen to give it space.And everyone who reads it is a little bit stupider for having done so.H/T Radley Balko © 2012 Simple Justice NY LLC. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 11:27 am
From Radley Balko and Scott Greenfield comes the heartwarming tale of Florida Circuit Judge Joseph Will, who, while bound by Supreme Court precedent that the Constitution allows the police to lie to a citizen to gain entry to the citizen's home, is unwilling to take the word of an admitted liar. [read post]
2 Jun 2012, 8:57 am
love's best habit is in seeming trust,And age in love, loves not to have years told: Therefore I lie with her, and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flattered be.h/t Greenfield who got the link to Fitch, well here's his summary.Via Radley Balko and Pete Eyre, by way of an interesting post by Howard Friedman at CopBlock. [read post]
