The U.S. legal system should apply engineers’ tactics for minimizing risk to the plea bargaining process to prevent innocents from going to jail, according to Israeli law professor Boaz Sangero. In a paper entitled “Safety from Plea Bargains’ Hazards,” Sangero, who heads the Criminal Law and...
Police in Chicago released video Sunday that showed a man who was shot to death by an officer a day earlier had a firearm and tussled with officers before the shooting, USA Today reports. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson quickly disseminated the body camera video in...
A recent communiqué from my HR department casually let fall that we’re now a “social justice organization” dedicated to the interests of “the most vulnerable.” And all these years we thought we were a public defender! We feel like the hero of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” who woke...
Before soliciting a teenage girl who turned out to be an undercover cop on the internet, Joshua Hoe was director of the University of Michigan’s debate team. Although he now runs a podcast that features staffers from prestigious criminal justice reform organizations like the Brennan Center...
A passenger from a Holland America Line (HAL) cruise ship has gone overboard in the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, according to the National Parks Traveler nonprofit media organization. The Park Service issued a press release Saturday night that it had suspended its...
The federal judge overseeing the reunification of children and parents separated at the U.S.-Mexico border berated the Trump administration, accusing it of using his ruling as “cover” to imply that speeding up the reunification process might potentially endanger children. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in...