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New Jersey Cops Are Using DNA Drawn From Newborns In Criminal Investigations 8 August 2022 To be in law enforcement is to be almost criminally obtuse. (We haven’t criminalized that. YET! But when we do…) They can’t stay out of their own way. The public may be willing to cut them some slack...

Possible Problems With Lethal Injection Drugs Stop Tennessee Execution Meanwhile in South Carolina, the state Supreme Court delays a planned execution by firing squad. 22 April 2022 A scheduled execution in Tennessee Thursday night was put on temporary hold by the governor, but it's not...

John Oliver Explains How Cops Lie To People To Rob Them Of Their Freedom 20 April 2022 God help you if you lie to a cop. We’re not even talking about court, where everyone swears to tell the whole truth, etc. before being subjected to testilying by law enforcement officers. We’re talking...

Marc Brandt, still alive and free, unlike William Virgin He Spent 28 Years Behind Bars for a Murder He Didn't Commit and Died Before Seeing Justice The police officers who allegedly framed William Virgil were denied qualified immunity. But they're still trying to delay a trial. 30 March 2022...

Cops Are Being ‘Trained’ To Use Literal Witchcraft To Find Dead Bodies 30 March 2022 We [waves flattened palm parallel to the floor in circular motion meant to demonstrate the encompassing nature of the rest of this sentence] the People of this United States have seen some shit. This...

Episode 5: The Evidence In the wake of a scandal within the Houston police crime lab, Charles Raby’s lawyers discover that forensic evidence was hidden from the defense at trial. 1 March 2022 Foreign DNA is found under Edna Franklin’s fingernails. And in the wake of a scandal within the...

Letter From High-Ranking FBI Lawyer Tells Prosecutors How To Avoid Court Scrutiny Of Firearms Analysis Junk Science 18 February 2022 Law enforcement — including the FBI — like to claim they’re heavily invested in science. The use of forensic “science” has been with us for years, but nowhere...

A teen wrongly charged in a shooting says police offered him fast food to get a confession 23 February 2022 Advocates for juvenile justice are calling for changes to the way police and schools handle arrests after the lawyer and family of an Illinois teenager said he was coerced into giving a...

Colorado Legislators Advance Bill To Ban Police from Lying to Minors During Interrogations Reason reported last year on how minors are particularly susceptible to being coerced into false confessions. 25 February 2022 Democratic lawmakers in Colorado are advancing a bill that would ban police...

Since-Deceased ‘Preacher’ Deputy Is the ‘Only Probable Suspect’ in Rape and Killing of 11-Year-Old Girl Four Decades Ago in Florida: Authorities 18 February 2022 Investigators say they found some closure in the case of a slain girl, but their answer to the longtime mystery was all too close...

San Francisco police used rape victims’ DNA to try to ‘incriminate’ them, D.A. says 14 February 2022 San Francisco’s district attorney said police used a database with DNA collected from victims of rape and sexual assault to connect some of them to crimes. Dist. Atty. Chesa Boudin said...

The mendacious idiots in the Virginia Beach Police Department claim that the practice was "legal", yet "in at least one instance, a forged report was presented to a court as evidence." The fraud became known only "after a prosecutor asked the Department of Forensic Science to provide a...

Hung Jury in Case of Ex-Cop Accused of Murdering Prostitute After Sex in Horse Track Manure Pit in 1986 10 December 2021 A jury in Washington State could not agree on a verdict in the trial of Richard Aguirre, 57, a former Pasco police officer charged with murdering Ruby Doss in 1986. That’s...

Nashville DA's Office Seeks to Vacate Claude Garrett's 29-Year-Old Murder Conviction 24 November 2021 Almost 30 years after Claude Garrett was accused of setting a fire that killed his girlfriend, Lorie Lance, the district attorney’s office in Nashville, Tennessee, has concluded that there is...

Devonia Inman Sees His Conviction Overturned After 23 Years Behind Bars 29 November 2021 MORE THAN 20 YEARS after Devonia Inman was sentenced to life in prison for a murder he swears he did not commit, a judge in Georgia has overturned his conviction, writing that state misconduct and...

‘Traumatizing’: Transgender woman says Meck County deputy attacked, sexually assaulted her 12 November 2021 A woman who is transgender was arrested and put in jail, only to then be attacked. She said the person who attacked her and sexually assaulted her was a Mecklenburg County deputy. That...

Police lies, a botched investigation and a homicide confession: ‘I’m going to jail for something I didn’t do’ 6 October 2021 In a windowless interrogation room, Syracuse police kept telling Robert Adams that he beat to death a friend in May 2019. Detectives told Adams that a 911 caller and...