Month: August 2017

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This week we unveil a new Rule of Fsck: there are no new stories, just new faces and jurisdictions. We also cover the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense giving their opinions on the President, an Oklahoma police officer running a white nationalist record label, and Baltimore police caught planting evidence yet again. Then in our #Law140 segment we review the President’s pardon powers, and how they will impact Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

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Show Notes:

• Gorka is gone (CNN)
• The Apricot Authoritarian pardons Arpaio (CNN)
• In doing so, Trump tells the judiciary to f*ck off (NY Times)
• Tillerson: Trump doesn’t speak for America (Twitter)
• Mattis: “Hold the line” (Twitter)
• Dorito Duterte wants more MRAPs for local cops (USA Today)
• The Secret Service is broke (Twitter)
• Disturbing study on economic (non-)mobility of black men (Brookings Institution)
• Law review article on “The Crime of ‘Disrespect'” (Racism.org)
• Taser works hard to influence investigations (Reuters)
• ICE works hard to deport students (The Guardian)
• Sam Sinyangwe on the economics of incarceration (Twitter)
• DC judge orders website to disclose visitors (Washington Post)
• Circuit court denies qualified immunity claim (Ninth Circuit)
• ARIZONA: A thread on Sheriff Joe’s greatest hits (Twitter)
• ARIZONA: Phoenix police shoot a 29-year-old in the groin (ABC 15)
• CALIFORNIA: Judge Kreep is a creep (Twitter)
• FLORIDA: Lakeland PD officers clog in-car memory cards on purpose (NBC 8 WFLA)
• FLORIDA: 28yo veteran Kristen Ambury is executed by SWAT (ABC 10)
• GEORGIA: Gwinnett Judge Jim Hinkle has resigned (Splinter)
  • Our episode with Judge Hinkle’s commentary (Fsck #23)
• ILLINOIS: Court orders new trial, man still waiting 16+ yrs later (BuzzFeed News)
• LOUISIANA: 3 pedestrians were hit by a truck; they got the ticket (KATC 3)
• MARYLAND: Yet another bodycam video of police planting evidence (Baltimore Sun)
  • You’ve heard about this practice before (Fsck #20)
  • It’s a common theme with Baltimore PD (Fsck #17)
• MASSACHUSETTS: State legislature considers citations over arrests (Lowell Sun)
• MISSOURI: Gov. Greitens stays an execution over DNA evidence (CNN)
• NEVADA: Cliven Bundy’s co-conspirators found not guilty (Las Vegas Sun)
• NEW MEXICO: ATF in Albuquerque spend their time fabricating crime (NM In Depth)
• NEW YORK: Editorial on the crime of living in a poor neighborhood (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: Editorial on getting justice when you’re broke (USA Today)
• NEW YORK: NYPD officers bounced from flight for being drunk (NY Post)
• NEW YORK: 22yo Juwan Parker beaten unconscious (Facebook)
  • Here’s the official write-up (Daily Gazette)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Crooked DAs conspired before one was even elected (Greensboro News & Record)
  • Our earlier episode when they were charged (Fsck #12)
  • And when we first mentioned them (Fsck #7)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Attempted murder charges dropped against a Klansman (Triad City Beat)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Alamance commissioner thinks slaves are “workers” (The Times-News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Onslow Sheriff has a reporter arrested; charge dismissed (News in Onslow)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Jail employee charged with selling drugs to inmates (WRAL)
• OHIO: Akron teenager magically shoots himself while handcuffed (ABC News5)
• OHIO: Supreme Court Justice Bill O’Neill is an imbecile (Deadspin)
• OKLAHOMA: Police chief builds a white nationalist record label (Raw Story)
  • Our episode with the Chicago officer running white nationalist websites himself (Fsck #16)
• TEXAS: Two exonerated after 21 years in jail (CBS News)
• TEXAS: CBP keeps its checkpoints running as people flee a hurricane (Texas Tribune)
• TEXAS: ICE strands a bus of women and children mid-hurricane (BuzzFeed News)
• TEXAS: Deputy Chase Welch shoots a 3rd person in a year (Houston Chronicle)
• VIRGINIA: ACLU releases video of police ignoring Nazi shooting (NY Times)
• Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution (National Archives)
• Federalist No. 69 (Avalon Project)
• Ex Parte Garland (Justia)
• Burdick v. US (Justia)
• FAQs on Executive Clemency (US DOJ)

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When it comes to Nazis, President Trump has more flip-flops than a hipster-infested beach on Independence Day. Durham’s Confederate participation trophy is removed by protestors, Maryland can’t find prison guards who aren’t criminals, and Tennessee runs an entire criminal justice system without judges or defense attorneys. And in this week’s #Law140 segment, we take a look at the mechanics of felony charges against those #DefendDurm protestors.

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CORRECTION (08/22/17): Folks on Twitter informed us that Clark County is in Washington, not Oregon. We’ve corrected the show notes below – thanks for the heads up!

Show Notes:

• Steve Bannon is out (CNN)
• The Kimchi Klansman condemns Nazis… (CNN)
• …before un-condemning them (ABC News)
• And the Nacho Nazi’s enablers in Congress don’t know what to do (NY Magazine)
• Durham had an interesting Friday (Durham Herald-Sun)
• A surprising court ruling on warrants (DC Circuit)
• Man can sue after being wrongly imprisoned 23 years (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• Charlotte School of Law is closed (Above the Law)
• Judges allow junk science when they shouldn’t (AP)
  • Our #Law140 on scientific evidence (Fsck #12)
• Equal justice requires a fat bank account (CBS News)
• White-on-black homicides are routinely justified (NY Times)
• The Misplaced Arguments on BLM (The Economist)
• A thought-provoking piece on violent criminals (Slate)
• Apple’s iOS 11 may protect you from unreasonable searches (The Verge)
• CALIFORNIA: Alameda County Sheriff RTs a Nazi press conference (East Bay Express)
• CALIFORNIA: CA police killed 157 in 2016, a third in LA County (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Orange County judge sanctions the DA for corruption (OC Weekly)
• CALIFORNIA: Orange County considers appeal of $2.25M rape-by-cop verdict (Reason)
• FLORIDA: 3 ex-prison guards in the KKK convicted of conspiring to kill black inmate (Washington Post)
• GEORGIA: Judge suspended for Charlottesville remarks (NY Daily News)
• MARYLAND: Debtors prisons are apparently a thing? (Baltimore Sun)
• MARYLAND: Potential prison guards scared away by polygraphs (Washington Post)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Springfield cop gives Charlottesville thoughts (Mass Live)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Northeastern University police think all black people look alike… (Boston Globe)
  • …of course it’s caught on video (Facebook)
• MINNESOTA: Minneapolis cop watched security guard beat a handcuffed man (MPR News)
• NEW YORK: 100 NYPD officers support Colin Kaeparnick (Twitter)
• NEW YORK: The NYC SBA announces “blue racism” (Twitter)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Man leaves his kids with babysitter, charged with child abuse (ABC 11)
• OHIO: Dashcam exposes Euclid police as liars (AP)
  • Last week’s episode on this Euclid case (Fsck #22)
• TENNESSEE: No judge? No defense lawyer? No problem! (ProPublica)
• TEXAS: Police officer pitches death penalty for monument defacing (Raw Story)
• WASHINGTON: Jail deputy Christopher North fired for ejaculating on a detained woman (Oregon Live)
• CANADA: Ottawa police show the danger of Big Data Policing (Metro News)
• The Fourth Amendment (LII)
• NC’s riot statutes (NC General Assembly)
• Illinois v. Gates (Oyez)
• In re Winship (Oyez)
• Victor v. Nebraska (Oyez)

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Charlottesville deals with terrorists. Prosecutors let an 11-minute roadside rape in Texas go unpunished. New Jersey police terrorize a pizzeria. And in our #Law140 segment we give you an overview of our bail system and how it works.

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Show Notes:

• Terrorists bomb a mosque (MPR News)
• Nazi terrorist kills a woman at White Right rally (Daily Progress)
• Jay Nordlinger misses the boat IMO (National Review Online)
• But the Nazis loved Trump’s “speech” (Twitter)
• Man fires lawyer, inadvertently confesses crime to judge (1st Circuit)
• Innocence doesn’t matter when you’re broke (The Atlantic)
• ALASKA: Charges dropped against DeVarge Walker (NBC 11)
  • Our episode with Walker’s case (Fsck #19)
• CALIFORNIA: LAPD will get tactical drones. Brilliant. (KQED)
• CALIFORNIA: Cop points gun at unarmed passenger for 9 minutes (Washington Post)
• CALIFORNIA: White drug dealers with badges get probation (Bakersfield Californian)
• CONNECTICUT: Will Reginald Betts get to be a lawyer? (AP)
• DC: Killer cop Brian Trainer will not face charges (Twitter)
• FLORIDA: Miami cop steals phone, makes it disappear (PINAC)
• INDIANA: Police caught napping on the job… in a graveyard (KHOU 11)
• MARYLAND: Long-form piece on the state’s bodycam laws (The Intercept)
• NEW JERSEY: Police terrorize pizzeria (MyCentralJersey)
  • Our podcast on Raleigh officers doing the same thing (Fsck #2)
• NEW YORK: Profile on Buffalo PD *not* killing people (CNN)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Durham protestor cleared of disruption charges (WRAL)
• NORTH CAROLINA: 5-day exposé on jail f*ckery (News & Observer)
• OHIO: Woman arrested for recording police beating (Cleveland.com)
• OKLAHOMA: Killer cop Shelby Fields is back with a badge (Chicago Tribune)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: 6 deputies disciplined for sex on the job (WBTV 3)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Corruption in Columbia (Post & Courier)
• TEXAS: Roadside rape by HCSO goes unpunished (Fox 10)
• The Fifth Amendment (LII)
• The Eighth Amendment (LII)
• Federal pre-trial detention (LII)
• US v Salerno (Oyez)
• The DOJ “Dear Colleague” letter on bail (US DOJ)

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The game of musical chairs in the White House continues, while the Attorney General wastes DOJ time (and your money) trying to get back into the Papaya POTUS’s good graces. Plus a truly bizarre story out of Onslow County NC, state-sanctioned puppycide in Michigan, and Baltimore Police again striving to prove that The Wire was a documentary. Then in our #Law140 segment we talk about the role of grand juries and what that may mean for Bob Mueller’s probe of the Parody President and his campaign’s collaboration with the Soviets.

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Show Notes:

• Anthony Scary-Moocher has already been fired (CNN)
• The Yapping Yam just keeps on lying… (CNN)
• …and is a terribly negotiator to boot (Washington Post)
• Attorney General Beauregard rattles his saber on leakers (Time)
• …Plus tells citizens in four cities to drop dead (AP)
• …And will be wasting your money to investigate non-existent reverse discrimination (NY Times)
• Second Circuit encourages false imprisonment of US citizens (NPR)
• A Michigan judge rules dogs are mere “contraband” to be exterminated (Reason)
  • The Puppycide Precedent he cites (Twitter)
• CBP deliberately blocked Congress from exercising oversight on the Muslim Ban (Daily Beast)
• Our bail system destroys lives (Mic.com)
• Teens sentenced to LWOP get very different sentences (AP)
• Nearly 1-in-4 fired cops is rehired by the same department (Washington Post)
• ALABAMA: Inmates use peanut butter to escape prison (AL.com)
• ARIZONA: Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces jail time (azcentral.com)
• CALIFORNIA: “Marijuana moms” get a glowing media profile (Today)
  • My $0.02 on the “marijuana moms” story (Twitter)
• CALIFORNIA: All charges dismissed against Tatyana Hargrove (Mic.com)
  • Our episode with Tatyana’s arrest (Fsck #16)
• Tatyana’s story is precisely what that Proctor & Gamble ad was getting at (The Root)
• INDIANA: Drug-maker sends sales people to pitch judges (NPR)
• KENTUCKY: A killer cop wants his job back (WDRB)
• LOUISIANA: A police chief thought this racist meme was the funniest damn thing (HuffPost)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore PD caught planting evidence AGAIN (CBS News)
  • This seems to be a habit for the Baltimore PD (Fsck #17)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore County cop executes a shoplifter because he can (Fox 5)
• MARYLAND: An immigrant was offered a college scholarship. So ICE deported him. (Washington Post))
• MASSACHUSETTS: Former DA writes about how to reform the system (WBUR)
• MINNESOTA: White folks start to care about police reform (Washington Post)
• MISSOURI: The NAACP issues a travel advisory for the whole state (Sacramento Bee)
• NEW MEXICO: Private prison tries to extort state (Sante Fe New Mexican)
• NEW YORK: All black men look alike to the NYPD, so they just picked one to beat (NY Daily News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Did the Sheriff cover-up a rape by a pedophile deputy? (Raw Story)
  • Supposedly they had a “dating relationship” despite the 30-year age difference (WITN)
  • The Sheriff’s Facebook page is entertaining at least (Facebook)
• NORTH CAROLINA: The NCGOP Chairman Robin Hayes condemns the Bill of Rights (Durham Herald-Sun)
• OREGON: Portland Lieutenant says police brutality is cool (Portland Mercury)
• TENNESSEE: Jailers torture 18-year-old, tase him 40 times (UK Metro)
• TEXAS: “Show Me Your Papers” law emboldens criminals (The Intercept)
• TEXAS: Pedophile cop gets a deferral agreement (Houston Chronicle)
• The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution (Wikipedia)
• The US Attorneys’ Manual on Grand Juries (US DOJ)
• US v. Dionisio (Oyez)
• US v. Williams (Oyez)
• Kaley v. US (Oyez)
• Great summary by Ken White on how grand juries work (Popehat)