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Month: January 2021
“What would someone say to get out of jail?”
"In November, Kansan Olin “Pete” Coones was exonerated of murder after spending 12 years in prison. Lies told by a jailhouse informant put him there." How much is twelve years of your life worth?
New York Next To Legalize Recreational Marijuana?
Cuomo vows it will be so. “We will legalize adult-use recreational cannabis, joining 15 states that have already done so,” he tweeted on Monday. The move, Cuomo said, will “raise revenue and end the failed prohibition of this product that has left so many communities...
Traffic Enforcement Without Police
Removing police from traffic enforcement is going to be an interesting experiment. I wonder how various organizations that want tougher enforcement on Driving Under the Influence charges are going to feel about these change if it spreads outside of places like...
Resentencing ordered by Montana Supreme Court on triple homicide case
Montana Supreme Court orders resentencing on triple homicide case "The Montana Supreme Court has ordered another resentencing hearing for a man who is serving life without the possibility of parole for a triple homicide committed when he was 17. In a 5-2 ruling on...
New 5th Circuit Limits the Searches of Cell Phones
From the Volokh "Here's a fascinating new Fourth Amendment case from the Fifth Circuit, United States v. Morton, that sharply limits cell phone searches. According to the court, warrants must establish probable cause separately for each "category" of information in...
Pennsylvania Court Find’s Marsy’s Law
'The law also would have a negative impact on the rights on the accused, the court found, by allowing “a victim or any other person directly impacted by a crime to refuse an interview, deposition or other discovery request” made by the defendant. That includes...
Online Dating and Statutory Rape (Video Number One)
False Confessions
Are more common than you think. There's a interesting fiction book on the psychology of false confessions (often seen as on of the top one hundred literary works of the 20th century) called Darkness at Noon. People, erroneously, think that a person wouldn't confess...
Man released from prison after nearly forty years after witness admits lying
"the star witness that landed Forbes in prison for nearly four decades, said she fabricated a tale because she was intimidated by two local men who threatened her and her family." This happens more than people want to admit. You can go to the Innocence Project's...