Month: November 2017

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Have you ever wondered if someone was lying to you, but you didn’t know how to tell? For our #Law140 segment this week we talk with someone who gives you tips on how you can “spy the lie”! We also review the politics of Net Neutrality, and in criminal justice news a Chicago officer is sentenced to 5 years federal time for shooting a carful of black teens, automatic tickets are coming to Oklahoma, and a Virginia mom is charged with a felony for trying to protect her daughter from bullies.

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Show Notes:

• Our special guest for the #Law140 segment is Peter Romary (Twitter)
• Here’s the Twitter thread that made me late to the studio (Twitter)
• Measuring the economic impact of HBCUs (Brookings Institute)
• Investigation confirms “ComputerCOP” malware distributed by police (EFF)
• CALIFORNIA: Sheriff installs license plate reader outside of hospital ER (East Bay Express)
• CALIFORNIA: Speeding Boyle Heights officer hits car, kills 7-year-old and 9-year-old boys (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Speeding Perris officer hits, kills 15-year-old girl (KTLA 5)
• CALIFORNIA: Previously-untested evidence leads to pardon for Craig Coley, who spent 39 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit (LA Times)
• DELAWARE: Police ignore the Fourth Amendment to give out turkeys (The News Journal)
  • They did this in Texas too (Fsck #38)
• DC: Prosecutor admits no evidence against 6 protestors; prosecutes them anyway (Washington Post)
• GEORGIA: Long-read on ICE enforcement near Atlanta (NY Times)
• GEORGIA: Baby AJ gets a kidney (CNN)
  • Our podcast on AJ being denied a kidney because of dad’s probation (Fsck #32)
  • And AJ’s subsequent hospitalization (Fsck #36)
• GEORGIA: Newt Gingrich writes editorial calling for sentencing reform (Augusta Chronicle)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago PD officer admits he knew 55-year-old woman was near teen, before he killed both (Chicago Tribune)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago PD officer Marco Proano gets 5 years federal time for shooting carful of black teens (ABC 7 Chicago)
• KANSAS: Long-read on Lamonte McIntyre, freed after 23 years for a double murder he didn’t commit (NY Times)
• KENTUCKY: Trio of school cops brutally beat, tase black student on viral video (WHAS 11)
• LOUISIANA: Man gets life sentence for fleeing police (WWL 4)
• LOUISIANA: Insane new provisions for Baton Rouge contract with police union (Twitter)
• MARYLAND: Dead Baltimore cop scheduled to testify against corrupt coworkers (Baltimore Sun)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Middlesex experiments with new jail format (Boston Globe)
• MINNESOTA: Police called on student radio hosts for saying “tranny” (College Fix)
• MISSISSIPPI: Harrison County deputies kill 15-year-old Seth William Johnson (The Sun-Herald)
• MISSOURI: Federal judge puts restrictions on St. Louis PD for violating protestors rights (Washington Post)
• NEW YORK: NYPD cop who said date rape wasn’t “true rape” gets promoted (NY Daily News)
• NEW YORK: NYPD cop who assaulted a subordinate gets promoted (NY Post)
• NEW YORK: 9 NYPD cops go to hospital to intimidate rape victim into dropping charges (NY Post)
  • Our episode on NYPD raping the girl while on duty (Fsck #31)
  • And then claiming it was consensual (Fsck #33)
• NEW YORK: Bakery helps former inmates rebuild their lives (FEE)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Mecklenburg County ends in-person jail visits (Charlotte Observer)
  • Our episode on the scam of video visitation (Fsck #25)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Durham PD officers help woman whose home was damaged in fire (Durham Herald-Sun)
• OKLAHOMA: New license plate scanners will issue automatic tickets (KGOU)
• TENNESSEE: Judge Sam Benningfield reprimanded for court-run eugenics program (Washington Post)
  • Our July episode on the Eugenics Judge (Fsck #17)
• TEXAS: No evidence dead CBP agent was attacked (Daily Beast)
• TEXAS: Grand jury being convened for killer cop Derick Wiley (The Root)
  • Our episode on Lyndo Jones, shot 2x for “breaking in” to his own truck (Fsck #38)
• VIRGINIA: Black mom charged with felony for recording daughter’s abuse at elementary school (The Root)
• Here’s QVerity’s book “Spy the Lie” (Amazon)
• And their sequel, “Get the Truth” (Amazon)

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President Trump tweets his annoyance about not being praised enough, as his FCC votes to limit internet access for poor people. And in criminal justice news we talk about massive settlements in Georgia and Colorado, politicians behaving badly, and extended police f*ckery in Texas.

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Show Notes:

• Trump regrets helping American kids jailed overseas… (Twitter)
• …enough to tweet about it repeatedly (Twitter)
• Trump judicial nominee defends the KKK online (Slate)
• The FCC voted to end a program providing internet access to the poor (The Hill)
• Jared Fogle argues he’s a sovereign citizen (Washington Post)
• Kane County deputy admits asset forfeiture is about fundraising (Archive.org)
• DOJ claims hundreds of MS-13 gang members arrested (The Hill)
• Except an ICE officer admits they label people as “MS-13” without evidence (CBS News)
• 20 states suspend licenses if you fall behind on your student loans (NY Times)
• We’ve got a preschool-to-prison pipeline problem (Center for American Progress)
• Story on new meta-analysis of “proactive policing” (NPR)
• New study confirms racial bias in policing (Princeton)
• New study highlights the importance of diverse teachers (Urban Institute)
• US Sentencing Commission confirms racial disparities in crime sentencing (Washington Post)
• CALIFORNIA: US Attorney’s Office dismisses case against MS-13 to protect dirty cop (LA Times)
• COLORADO: Police destroy man’s home chasing trespasser (Reason)
• COLORADO: Longmont taxpayers will pay $210,000.00+ for illegal searches (Denver Post)
  • Our episode with this story back in June (Fsck #9)
  • Kyle Clark’s thread on this is worth reading (Twitter)
• COLORADO: Rifle PD training dogs to ignore weed (NBC 9)
• FLORIDA: Jacksonville PD issues hundreds of bogus tickets to black pedestrians (ProPublica)
• GEORGIA: Atlanta PD is having trouble filling vacancies (WSB-TV 2)
• GEORGIA: Worth County taxpayers will pay $3,000,000.00+ for illegal searches (Washington Post)
  • Our episode when the Sheriff was indicted (Fsck #31)
• ILLINOIS: “Mass exoneration” in Chicago after corrupt CPD sergeant is jailed (NPR)
• ILLINOIS: Twitter bot shares Chicago PD officers’ disciplinary histories (Twitter)
• IOWA: Man sentenced to 20 years federal time for reporting drug overdose (Omaha World-Herald)
• KANSAS: Topeka PD claims bodycam footage can only be seen by dead man’s young children (ABC News)
  • Exposé on the bodycam law (Kansas City Star)
  • A broader exposé on Kansas secrecy in general (Kansas City Star)
• LOUISIANA: Baton Rouge man released after 46 years in prison for rape he did not commit (AP)
• LOUISIANA: New Orleans man released after 8 years for dismissed drug charge (The New Orleans Advocate)
• MARYLAND: Supervising officer in death of Freddie Gray cleared of disciplinary charges (Twitter)
• MICHIGAN: Local politician federally indicted in wide-ranging bribery probe (The Detroit News)
• MICHIGAN: Detroit PD officers arrest themselves in bizarre undercover bust (WJBK 2)
• MISSOURI: St Louis detective Steve Burle caught on viral road rage video (Riverfront Times)
• NEW YORK: Corrections Commissioner repeatedly violates ethics laws (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: ICE gets special access to arrest people in court (Twitter)
• NEW YORK: Bronx Freedom Fund looks to expand nationwide (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: Rochester judge jailed for probation violation (Democrat & Chronicle)
• OHIO: Anti-LGBT legislator resigns after gay sex in office (Columbus Dispatch)
• OHIO: Probate Court wrongly denies marriage licenses to inmates (Columbus Dispatch)
• OKLAHOMA: New Colbert police chief has a criminal record (KXII 12)
  • Better than the Skinhead they used to have (Fsck #25)
  • Who ran a white nationalist record label (Fsck #24)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Elderly couple arrested for hibiscus police thought was weed (TribLive)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Philly cop arrested for re-selling Baltimore drugs (The Inquirer)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Exposé on civil asset forfeiture abuse in York County (York Daily Record)
• TENNESSEE: Nashville Sergeant James Dunaway indicted for stealing $5K (The Tennesseean)
• TEXAS: Dallas ADA attacks Uber driver on camera (HuffPost)
• TEXAS: Sheriff Troy Nehls threatens criminal prosecution over “F*ck Trump” sticker (Houston Chronicle)
• TEXAS: Police pull over drivers to give them turkeys (ABC World News Tonight)
• TEXAS: Lyndo Jones shot 2x for “breaking into” his own truck (Central Track)
• VIRGINIA: Deputy sheriff Jean Browning dresses in blackface to mock Congresswoman (The Root)
• WASHINGTON: Navy pilot draws dick pic in the sky (KREM 2)
• WEST VIRGINIA: Man rapes 15-year-old daughter, avoids jail time (The Herald-Dispatch)
• FRANCE: Sarcelles cop shoots girlfriend in face, five others after breakup (UK Evening Standard)

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Join us this week as we cover Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore’s taste for underage girls, some good news out of the Baltimore PD, and Los Angeles police confirming both the 1st and 3rd Rules of Fsck at the exact. same. time. Then in our #Law140 section we go over the basic tenets of contract law!

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Show Notes:

• Your President is still an idiot (Twitter)
• Roy Moore is a pedophile (Washington Post)
• …and people knew about it for years (Raw Story)
• …and Alabama Republicans are fine with that (Twitter)
• …so are Republican “intellectuals” (Twitter)
• …and so is Roy Moore (The Right Scoop)
• TSA misses weapons 70%+ of the time (CBS News)
• New study shows community nonprofits reduce crime more than policing (NY Times)
  • Sam Sinyangwe’s thread with more details (Twitter)
• Postal Service delays DACA renewal mail (NY Times)
• Radley Balko wins the 2017 Bastiat Prize (Reason Foundation)
• Military routinely fails to share data on servicemember crimes (Stars & Stripes)
• ALABAMA: Police steal $1,750 for improperly backing out of driveway (AL.com)
• CALIFORNIA: LAPD caught on bodycam planting drugs in black man’s wallet (CBS 2 LA)
• CALIFORNIA: Data shows no crime jump after reform efforts (Orange County Register)
• DC: Government drops case against woman who laughed at Jeff Sessions (NPR)
  • Our episode when the original conviction was thrown out (Fsck #16)
• FLORIDA: Miami demands media stop using pictures of fired firefighters (Boing Boing)
• GEORGIA: White teacher threatens to shoot black student (WSB-TV 2)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago police routinely dodge discipline (ProPublica)
• ILLINOIS: Mental health worker keeps 24-year-old inmate as sex slave (NY Post)
• INDIANA: Prosecutor suspended for 4 years after spying on defense attorneys (NWI.com)
• LOUISIANA: Officer blows away 12-lb. family dog, complains about wasting bullet (TechDirt)
• LOUISIANA: 3 State Troopers suspended in ticket-writing abuse scandal (NOLA.com)
• MAINE: “Deputy of the Year” on trial for raping children (Bangor Daily News)
• MARYLAND: Officer talks down suicidal man without killing him (Baltimore Sun)
  • Fresno PD was able to do this too (Fsck #27)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Police reprimand officer for accurate report on DUI crash by judge’s daughter (Reason)
• MISSISSIPPI: Youth Court disbanded after mom barred from 4-month-old over court costs (Clarion Ledger)
• MONTANA: Public defender asks for clients to be unshackled, Sheriff whines (Billings Gazette)
• NEVADA: Fred Steese is pardoned after 21 years in prison (ProPublica)
• NEW YORK: 1,100% improvement in outcomes when ICE detainees have lawyers (Vera Institute)
• NEW YORK: Judges order DAs to disclose evidence they’re required to disclose (NY Law Journal)
• NEW YORK: Killer cop Wayne Isaacs acquitted in road rage execution of Delrawn Small (Reason)
• NORTH CAROLINA: UNC Police spy on students to protect Confederate monument (Indy Week)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Prison supervisor fired for chronic sex harassment (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Charges dropped against 3 for taking down Durham participation trophy (Indy Week)
  • We told you this would happen (Fsck #23)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Philly cops whine like babies over new DA (Philly.com)
• PENNSYLVANIA: 2 constables charged after repeatedly shooting at driver over fender-bender (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Hundreds of arrest warrants recalled for indigent defendants (Post & Courier)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Drunk state senator crashes car, switches seats with wife to avoid arrest (Post & Courier)
• TENNESSEE: Memphis using GPS monitoring… of rape victims (In Justice Today)
• UTAH: Appellate defender fired when he noted he wasn’t getting paid (Salt Lake Tribune)
• WISCONSIN: 14-year-old Jason Pero summarily executed by police (The Root)
• CANADA: 4 crooked cops in Toronto walk free after procedural errors (Toronto Star)
• Samuel Williston (Wikipedia)
• Arthur Linton Corbin (Wikipedia)
• The Statute of Frauds (Wikipedia)

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Has the GOP become the anti-family party? We talk about their planned elimination of the adoption tax credit and other questionable decisions. In criminal justice news, we cover several police officers under federal indictment as well as a truly crazy story out of Guantanamo Bay. Then in our #Law140 segment we review the law governing anonymous speech on Twitter and the Government trying to identify you.

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CORRECTION (11/06/17 @ 10:38am): For some reason we had the University of Hartford listed as New Hampshire; it’s in Connecticut! Apologies to our Connecticut listeners for the flub!

Show Notes:

• Your President is still an idiot (Japan Times)
• GOP wants to raise taxes on families who adopt… (Vox)
• While expanding abortion restrictions… (The Hill)
• And limiting birth control access… (NY Times)
• And cutting teen pregnancy prevention… (Washington Post)
• …as NC has more kids in foster care than ever (NC Health News)
• Fifth Circuit: Texas police kill girl’s father, arrest her, get qualified immunity (5th Circuit COA)
• Fifth Circuit: No immunity for Sheriff who detained innocent woman for 96 days (5th Circuit COA)
• Ninth Circuit: No immunity for cop who fired 18 rounds into suspect in fetal position on ground (9th Circuit COA)
• Ninth Circuit: No Comic-Con gag order (Ars Technica)
• More Americans feel safe in their neighborhoods than ever before (Gallup)
• 2/3 of blacks say police treat them unfairly; 1/3 less likely to call police (NPR)
• Ethnonationalists sharing bomb-making info online (ProPublica)
• New study shows prosecutors give white defendants better plea offers (Slate)
• Former police chief calls for college degrees, higher standards (USA Today)
• New study: millions of drivers lost their licenses over traffic tickets (Washington Post)
• Law professor looks into police practice of moonlighting (Illinois Law Review)
• Marine general jailed by Air Force colonel in Gitmo tribunal (The Daily Beast)
• DOJ drops the ball on appeal, whines about opposing lawyers (Slate)
• DOJ also removes 70% of data tables from the FBI crime database (FiveThirtyEight)
• Private prison company moves its annual meeting to a Trump golf course (The Hill)
• ALABAMA: Vestavia Hills officer kills himself (AL.com)
• CALIFORNIA: 3 Pomona officers indicted federally for beating unarmed teenager caught on video (LA Times)
• COLORADO: Immigration detains man at meeting to obtain his green card (Denver Post)
• COLORADO: Denver police keep forgetting about people they have in custody (ABC 7 Denver)
• CONNECTICUT: “Chocolate and blood all over” as off-duty NYPD cop Amanda Villafane goes on Godiva rampage (Stamford Advocate)
• CONNECTICUT: White teenager arrested for poisoning black roommate (Hartford Courant)
• FLORIDA: Boynton Beach deputy robs home of dead hurricane victim (The Sun-Sentinel)
• FLORIDA: Cop slugs drunk female in the face, gives her a black eye (The Sun-Sentinel)
• FLORIDA: Miami firefighters hang noose on black coworkers family pictures (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: Abusive officer acquitted of choking 5-year-old (Palm Beach Post)
• FLORIDA: Police detain wrong man for 6 days (Miami NewTimes)
• GEORGIA: 2-year-old denied kidneys because of parole now hospitalized (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  • We mentioned AJ’s situation here (Fsck #32)
• GEORGIA: 1983 murder of Timothy Coggins was for “socializing with a white woman” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  • We mentioned this story in mid-October (Fsck #32)
• ILLINOIS: Skokie officer Mario Valenti helps 15yo at gym (ABC 7 Chicago)
• KENTUCKY: Judge confirms taxpayers must pay $225,000.00 to couples who sued clerk Kim Davis (NBC News)
• LOUISIANA: Hugo Holland, racist, most powerful DA in the state (Washington Post)
• LOUISIANA: White teenager burns down black church (Monroe News-Star)
• LOUISIANA: State Supreme Court says request for “lawyer, dawg” was really for a “lawyerdog” (Reason)
• LOUISIANA: Taxpayers will shell out $136,000.00+ for wrongful arrests of protestors in Baton Rouge (The Advocate)
• MICHIGAN: Legislature votes to end “driver responsibility fees” (Detroit Free Press)
• MISSISSIPPI: Deputy indicted federally for planting weapon on man he shot dead (Associated Press)
• MISSISSIPPI: Gulfport PD hold (black) medical professionals at gunpoint for robbing their own home (The Sun-Herald)
• MISSISSIPPI: 8 Olive Branch police officers resign following wide-ranging sex scandal (Fox 13 Memphis)
• NEVADA: Newspapers file FOIA lawsuit over Vegas shooting records (LA Times)
• NEVADA: UNR cop Antonio Gutierrez wears racist Halloween costume, chief apologizes (NY Daily News)
• NEW JERSEY: Police chief federally indicted for assaulting handcuffed black teen (NBC News)
• NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque PD is ignoring a federal consent decree… and getting away with it (HuffPost)
• NEW YORK: Officer shouts at domestic violence victim to speak English (The Times Union)
• NEW YORK: Officers indicted for raping 18-year-old girl in police van (NY Post)
  • We first mentioned this story here (Fsck #31)
  • And the follow-up here (Fsck #33)
• NEW YORK: NYPD sex crimes investigator Nicholas McAteer spent his career committing sex crimes (News 12 Westchester)
• NEW YORK: Suffolk DA indicted federally for covering up police beating of a suspect (NY Daily News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: GOP leader admits party will lose redistricting lawsuit, blames corruption (NC Policy Watch)
• NORTH CAROLINA: 66yo man given 27 years for opioid distribution (The Wilson Times)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Corrupt DA hit with felony indictments for stealing public money (Greensboro News & Record)
  • We mentioned these clowns here (Fsck #24)
  • Our earlier episode when they were charged (Fsck #12)
  • And when we first mentioned them (Fsck #7)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Ashe County Sheriff suspended from office for corruption (WBTV 3 Charlotte)
• OKLAHOMA: Judges send addicts to work as slaves at chicken plant (Center for Investigative Reporting)
• OKLAHOMA: ICE deports man for applying for extension of work permit (KFOR 4)
• OKLAHOMA: Every Sheriff sued over extortion scheme (Tulsa World)
• OKLAHOMA: Killer cop Betty Shelby will have her execution of Terrence Crutcher removed from her record (NBC 4 Washington)
  • Our episode on Shelby getting her badge back (Fsck #22)
• TEXAS: Legislators consider ending felony charges for breach-of-contract cases (Texas Tribune)
• TEXAS: Immigration stops 10-year-old en route to surgery, arrests her at hospital (NY Times)
• TEXAS: US Attorney sends Twitter a subpoena over smiley-face tweet (TechDirt)
• VIRGINIA: Fairfax police violently arrest, injure reporter for saying “Fuck” (CNN)
• WISCONSIN: Milwaukee taxpayers shell out $21,000,000.00+ for police brutality settlements since 2015 (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• UNITED KINGDOM: 100% of police prosecutions since 1990 ended in acquittal (Quartz)
• Publius (Wikipedia)
• The First Amendment (LII)
• The Fourth Amendment (LII)
• McIntyre v Ohio Elections Comm’n (Oyez)
• In re Anonymous Online Speakers (9th Circuit COA)
• Doe v 2TheMart.com (Harvard)