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11 Oct 2009, 6:26 am
” [AP/Google] More on sex offender laws: The Economist (”Unjust and ineffective”); Lenore Skenazy (predicate is often teen misconduct with other teens); Radley Balko, Reason (several Georgia offenders told to camp in woods, then told not to); earlier. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm
” [Radley Balko] St. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm
” [Alex Stein] “FDA Proposal To Curb Painkiller Overdose Deaths Would Add Burdens For Pain Patients” [Radley Balko] Georgia DUI expert in hot water [PennLive] “Deconstructing the mechanical engineer” [Manhattan; Eric Turkewitz] “FDA Suspension of Ponatinib: Serious Problem, Wrong Solution” [Richard Epstein, leukemia drug] “Missouri Lawmakers Override Veto to Enact Good Samaritan Law” [Michael Cannon, Cato] Tweet Tags:… [read post]
26 Jul 2015, 9:05 pm
Louis County towns continue to treat residents like ATMs” [Radley Balko] Tags: Arizona, attorneys' fees, forfeiture, law enforcement for profit, Maine, Oklahoma, Philadelphia, prisoners, red light camerasLaw enforcement for profit roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 7:59 am
iPhone Constitution app is now on version 1.3.8 [Magliocca, Co-Op] “North Carolina’s Corrupted Crime Lab” [Radley Balko] “The folly of needless alcohol laws” [Conor Friedersdorf, The Daily Dish] “Judge Posner opinion on overwarning” [PoL, Drug and Device Law] Annals of zero tolerance: No scissors allowed at ribbon-cutting ceremony at Pittsburgh airport [eight years ago on Overlawyered] Tags: alcohol, autos, discrimination law,… [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 4:27 am
’” [Union-Leader via Radley Balko, who calls it reductio creep] Similar proposals have surfaced in places like Portland, Ore., and “perfume sensitivity” lawsuits have been reported from Detroit and New Jersey (& welcome WSJ Law Blog readers; day’s “Five Must-Read Stories”). [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 3:16 pm
That might sound depressing, but as Radley Balko of Reason notes, “Nick’s sense of humor considerably lightens the experience. [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 9:41 pm
Radley Balko, a journalist who has studied the issue, told a House subcommittee on crime in 2007 that one criminologist found a 1,500 percent increase in the use of SWAT (special weapons and tactics) teams in the United States in roughly the last two decades. . . . [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 6:17 am
Meanwhile, Radley Balko quotes from a trancript of the hearing where an FBI assistant director refused under questioning to assure Congress that the agency does not withhold information about their informants who commit "serious violent felonies" from state and local investigators! [read post]
25 Nov 2006, 5:13 pm
I noted these interesting posts / stuff elsewhere: Radley Balko at the Agitator (here & here) has a blog-fight with the folks over at the Volokh Conspiracy (here & here) over police-raids that end-up in the wrong locations often costing innocent people their lives. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 12:49 pm
Radley Balko at Reason: I don’t know Arizona law, so perhaps a Hit & Run reader with some experience there can help out. [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]
15 Apr 2012, 8:06 am
Radley Balko, at Huffington Post, looks more broadly at the ethcis of charging decsions. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 2:53 am
Goslin] Desires for retribution aside, hanging homicide rap on dealers after overdoses unlikely to solve opiate problem [Mark Sine and Kaitlyn Boecker, Baltimore Sun] “Man wrongly convicted with bite mark evidence confronts bite mark analysts” [Radley Balko] Judge Neil Gorsuch and over-criminalization [C. [read post]
29 Mar 2015, 9:05 pm
” [@ClarkHat on Twitter] “Kern County, a jurisdiction with a long unfortunate history of putting the wrong people in prison” [Radley Balko, Glenn Reynolds/USA Today on People v. [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]
4 Mar 2009, 11:10 pm
The latest salvo has just come to conclusion at Patterico's Pontifications, where Kathy Kelly, the lawyer for Jimmie Duncan, the evidence against whom was the subject of an expose by Radley Balko at Reason, threw a hissy fit.It seems that Patrick Frey at Patterico, by digging a little deeper into the story, stepped on Kelly's toes, at least as far as Kelly was concerned: I have heard from someone, however: the defendant's lawyer, who is threatening to… [read post]
24 Nov 2008, 1:23 pm
While we've documented likely Attorney General nominee Eric Holder and VP-Elect Joe Biden previously (Also see NNDB and Radley Balko here), Allen points out three other stumbling blocks: Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, ONDCP Transition Team Director Dr. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 9:05 pm
“Someone could have put their hand in the window and unlocked the door and taken the kids” [Lenore Skenazy/Free Range Kids; related stories here and here; similar, Illinois Policy] Police warn that plan in Scotland to provide state guardian for every child could backfire in abuse investigations [Telegraph, more on “named person” scheme] Also from Scotland: Law Society says proposed ban on liquor promotion is so broad it might snag parent wearing rugby-sponsor jacket at… [read post]
7 May 2014, 7:38 am
As Radley Balko has presciently observed, the pattern in reviews of author William Cohan’s book has been straightforward: overwhelmingly negative reviews from any reviewer who followed the case closely, coupled with glowing reviews from those who knew nothing about the case and appeared willing to uncritically accept Cohan’s musings without even wondering about the merits of using a convicted liar as the book’s chief source. [read post]
