Prominent defense lawyer Gerry Goldstein was surprised get an invitation to speak at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Dallas last weekend. He was there because he’s a drug attorney who understands how the nation’s Byzantine drug laws could threaten gun owners, reports the...
Sturm Ruger, one of the largest U.S. gun makers, will track and report on gun violence involving its products after its shareholders backed a proposal that the company’s board had recommended not adopting, NPR reports. Ruger says the proposal — which it called a “shareholder’s...
Prison is not a healthy place. Many who wind up there aren’t in good health to begin with, and their sentences can exacerbate underlying issues. Solitary confinement destroys already fragile minds. Incarceration robs men and women of their youth, beatings and abuse at the hands...
Nevada prison officials got the go-ahead Thursday to execute the state’s first inmate in 12 years, after the state Supreme Court ruled that defense lawyers and a rights group used the wrong process to stop the lethal injection, the Associated Press reports. Justices sidestepped the...
A total of 93 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty last year, the FBI reports. Of those deaths, 46 were felonious and 47 were accidental. Both totals decreased from 2016, when 66 officers were feloniously killed and 52 were accidentally killed,...
Some lawmakers in Baltimore are voicing concerns about the federal tax charges against Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa, breaking with the mayor and joining the police union in saying De Sousa’s apology for his failings was not enough, the Baltimore Sun reports.“In what world...