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California Initiative to Turn Drug Possession Felonies Into Misdemeanors Passes.       Californians for Safe Neighborhoods and Schools sponsored Proposition 47, passed on November 4th. […]

The “Good Faith Exception” a 30-year-old legal fiction, increasingly is being cited to give police officers a pass when they violate the Fourth Amendment   From […]

ACLU Petitions to End Program Giving Surplus Military Equipment to Police Agencies . ​We have posted previously about the dangerous, in our view, militarization of our […]

Turns out, violent crime may be genetic       From Quartz: Variants of two genes, MAOA and CDH13, were found to be associated with violent […]

Probe of FBI agent leads to release of citizens convicted of  drug offenses from prison The Washington Post reported on October 31st that: In a move […]

Prosecutors’ Misconduct Frees Two Men in Texas Two Texas men were freed Tuesday when their life sentences were overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct during their murder […]

Trung Le could face trial next month in Bourbon Street shooting   Image provided by NOPD — Trung T. Le     From the advocate…   […]

UN rights expert concerned over drone use in domestic law enforcement   ©  WikiMedia (Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army) JURIST is reporting: A UN rights expert […]

Koch Industries gives grant to NACDL “to address the nation’s profound indigent defense crisis” You hear a lot about the Koch brothers these days, but this […]