Ryke Longest is a clinical professor at Duke University School of Law and Nicholas School of the Environment. He teaches water resources law and directs the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. On January 8, the Supreme Court will hear an original jurisdiction dispute among three...
Amid widespread gun violence in the U.S., the number of accidental shooting deaths has steadily declined, the Los Angeles Times reports. There were 489 people killed in unintentional shootings in the U.S. in 2015, the most recent year for which data is available. That was...
Every state has seen a dramatic increase in recent years in the share of its population convicted of a felony. That leaves more people facing hurdles in finding jobs and housing, and is prompting some states to revisit how they classify crimes, Stateline reports. In...
From a pot shop in Santa Cruz that hung a banner proclaiming “Prohibition is Over!” to one in San Diego handing out T-shirts showing the first moon landing and declaring a “giant leap for mankind,” California began its first sales of recreational marijuana Monday, the...
Detroit posted its lowest tally of criminal homicides last year in more than a half-century: 267, reports the Detroit News. That is the fewest criminal homicides since the 214 recorded in 1966. That was at a time when Detroit had a population of more than...
Once again we look back at the continuing cavalcade of crooks, criminals, miscreants and, to put it kindly, morons the less intellectually gifted, who met justice face-to-face in 2017. This year’s class includes a preacher, a controller, an engineer, a landman, and two lawyers! ••• Perp: Johnny...