They Stood Their Ground in Florida. They’re Charged With Murder. Guess Their Race.
admin An armed 14-year-old used a racial slur to describe the defendants.
Criminal Justice
It’s One of the Hardest Parts of Getting Out of Prison and Nobody Ever Talks About It
There are approximately 450,000 to 600,000 people returning home from federal and state prison each year, according to Prisonpolicy.org.
Texas Prisoners Are Baking to Death. The State Keeps Saying No to AC.
A 90-year-old with hypertension could still fail to qualify for a bed with AC.
The Supreme Court Gave Us All One Big Win This Term
Big, serious, aggressive stands for robust constitutional protection of individual rights, even of accused criminals, are rare commodities.
Elena Kagan Just Bolstered the Fourth Amendment in a Badly Needed Way
Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear…
The Supreme Court Issued an 8–1 Ruling on Plea Deals. The Accord Won’t Last.
The Supreme Court issued an important criminal justice ruling on Thursday about the appropriate bounds of plea bargains.
Another Racially Charged Verdict Has Split Americans. Here’s the Real Scandal.
It was the jury selection, plain and simple.
Ketanji Brown Jackson Stands Firm—and Alone—on Compassionate Release
Does the inaccuracy or unfairness of an underlying conviction count as an “extraordinary and compelling reason” for compassionate release?
Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts Remain Strangely Clear-Eyed About One Kind of Racism
The Supreme Court issued a surprisingly good decision in a racial jury-selection case on Thursday.
The Supreme Court Weighs How Much Google Surveillance Can Be Used Against You in Court
Those questions do not have clean answers. But the instinct underlying the Fourth Amendment remains surprisingly stable across centuries.