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4 Feb 2008, 7:41 am
Barbara Tombs, a senior fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City, a nonprofit that researches criminal justice issues, asked the state for a report on how many inmates in prison on burglary charges had prior burglary arrests. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Dominion’s Historic Defamation Case Against Fox News Will Go to Trial, Judge Rules, in Major Decision Dismantling Key Fox Defenses MSN – Marshall Cohen (CNN) | Published: 3/31/2023 Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation case against Fox News will proceed to a jury trial, a judge ruled, in a decision that dismantled several of the network’s key defenses. [read post]
18 May 2009, 9:07 am
TPMCafé - New York,NY,USA'"Defendant' gives you some idea that the individual is a party in some criminal proceeding and since nobody has been charged with a crime, well? [read post]
24 Nov 2019, 4:48 am by Karen Tani
  Funk began by noting that much of early legal practice in New York was oral, and therefore a challenge to study. [read post]
15 Oct 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Nineteen states have passed 33 new laws this year to restrict voting. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 9:26 am by Rebecca McCray, Center for Justice
As the introduction states, "The drug war is a leading supplier to the prison industry and the biggest inspiration for new ways to circumvent the Fourth Amendment. [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Today, the New York Times rightly observes, “Capital punishment does not operate in the land of reason or logic; it operates in a perpetual state of secrecy and shame. [read post]
22 Aug 2008, 2:50 pm
"Federal Judge, Chastising the Texas Courts, Orders a Stay of Execution," is James McKinley's New York Times report.With only hours until his scheduled execution, a man won a stay Thursday when a federal judge granted him a hearing to determine whether he was mentally competent. [read post]
20 Aug 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The parties have split control over state government in each of those states, making a deadlock over new maps likely. [read post]
6 Dec 2022, 2:42 pm by Alicia Maule
Former Innocence Project attorney Nina Morrison becomes a U.S. district judge  Nina Morrison, one of the Innocence Project’s longest-serving attorneys, who helped exonerate 30 innocent people from prison, became a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York in September. [read post]
25 May 2016, 6:13 pm by David Markus
Here's Slate covering the opinion:Quoting extensively from the influential book The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Block expresses moral indignation throughout the opinion at all the ways in which the American criminal justice system makes it harder for people with felony convictions to achieve stability in life. [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 2:33 pm
I want to share this extraordinarily profound and eloquent (not ‘eloquent’ in the sense that a Trump supporter on CNN confidently described a recent campaign speech by Trump) passage from Tom Wicker’s book, A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt (Haymarket Books, 2011; first published by Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1975). [read post]
1 Nov 2017, 6:16 pm by James S. Friedman, LLC
  Further, suing New York State is a waste of time unless the plaintiff can demonstrate conclusively that they were innocent of the offense that sent them to prison. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 4:38 am by SHG
Such a gentle way of saying that the Parole Board in New York is the most notorious, outrageous, cruel, vicious cesspool of abuse in the system. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 2:24 pm by Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer
So I can then come to my clients and say we have this person with really great skills from New York, we’re going to hire them, and you don’t have to pay the New York rate to have that support, but you still get the same quality service. [read post]
23 Jun 2007, 4:00 pm
Digg.com faced the wrath of its notoriously vocal users as complaints poured in about a new system for posting comments. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 1:52 am by Xiaomin (Samantha) Hu
Even after completing their sentences, the New York-based group said, prisoners are likely to remain in jail until their debt is paid off, unlike in the U.S. or the U.K., where debtors’ prisons were abolished in the 19th century. [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
As Menendez’s Star Rose, Fears of Corruption Cast a Persistent Shadow Yahoo News – Nicholas Fandos (New York Times) | Published: 9/27/2023 Robert Menendez rose from a New Jersey tenement to the pinnacle of power in Washington as the state’s senior U.S. senator. [read post]