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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day — just make sure to read some of Dr. King’s other writings while you celebrate! Join us this week as we talk about our Parody President and porn stars, a teacher getting arrested (on video) for questioning a superintendent’s pay increase, and an “I told you so!” moment here in North Carolina. Then in our #Law140 segment we talk about charges getting dismissed against Cliven Bundy and his co-conspirators, and the landmark court case of Brady v. Maryland that made it possible.
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Show Notes:
- The Papaya POTUS thought “shithole countries” would play well with his base (The Hill)
- Trump paid out $130K to a porn star to keep her quiet (UK Guardian)
- And had another porn star sign a non-disclosure agreement (Raw Story)
- And invited a third porn star for a threesome (Daily Beast)
- Oral arguments in McCoy v Louisiana start Wednesday (NBC News)
- Our episode on SCOTUS granting certiorari (Fsck #32)
- Eighth Circuit: Missouri’s 2,500+ hours of training to braid hair is reasonable (8th Circ COA)
- Harvard: New law review article on Presidential tweeting (Harvard Law Review)
- NYT: The labor market is making it easier for former inmates to find work (New York Times)
- NYT: The drop in crime has most-benefitted the most-disadvantaged (New York Times)
- Pew: Racial disparity in federal prisons is indeed shrinking (Pew Research)
- Slate: Exposé on prosecutors fighting to keep innocent people locked up (Slate)
- A compilation of 17 such cases (Slate)
- WaPo: Accurate-but-depressing editorial on the innocent pleading guilty (Washington Post)
- The White House held a “prison reform” meeting… on re-entry programs (NPR)
- FBI whines about you having crypto (Vice Motherboard)
- ICE is now raiding 7-Elevens (WRC-TV 4)
- The IRS paid private debt collectors $20M+ to collect $6.7M (Forbes)
- ARIZONA: Inmate chews off own fingers to finally get medical treatment (Newsweek)
- CALIFORNIA: Kamala Harris’s record defending dirty prosecutors (Reason)
- FLORIDA: Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams loses it over being criticized (Florida Times-Union)
- Our episode with the ProPublica exposé (Fsck #38)
- GEORGIA: Police arrest 70+ people for less than an ounce of weed (WSB-TV 2)
- ILLINOIS: College student arrested by police for distributing political flyers (The FIRE)
- ILLINOIS: Thomas Sierra freed after spending 22 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit (Chicago Tribune)
- LOUISIANA: Teacher arrested for questioning superintendent’s pay raise (KATC 3)
- MARYLAND: Bail bondsman pleads guilty to helping police deal drugs (Baltimore Sun)
- Our episode on Sgt Jenkins pleading guilty (Fsck #46)
- Our episode on one of Jenkins’s Task Force lackeys pleading guilty (Fsck #32)
- And another Task Force lackey being indicted… (Fsck #25)
- …who stole $10,000 from a citizen (Fsck #27)
- And the Philadelphia cop who helped the Task Force sell their drugs (Fsck #38)
- And Jenkins setting up Det. Sean Suiter to find planted drugs (Fsck #41))
- And Suiter being killed the night before he was to testify against the Task Force (Fsck #39)
- MARYLAND: Security guards dump hospital patient at bus stop in freezing weather (CBS News)
- MARYLAND: Montgomery PD officer breaks car window, accidentally shoots driver (Washington Post)
- MASSACHUSETTS: Police request your DNA from testing services likes 23andMe (WFXT 25)
- NEVADA: The Bundy case is dismissed with prejudice (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
- NEW MEXICO: Governor Susana Martinez wants blanket immunity for killer cops (Albuquerque Journal)
- NEW YORK: NYPD officers illegally choke out protestors (Carbonated.tv)
- NEW YORK: Long-read on man sent to Rikers Island 100 times (Village Voice)
- NEW YORK: NYPD waged a smear campaign against a rape victim; concludes she was right 24 years later (Daily Beast)
- NORTH CAROLINA: The felonies against Durham protestors are being dismissed (Durham Herald-Sun)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Former Governor McCrory costs taxpayers $250,000.00+ for public records dispute (News & Observer)
- OHIO: Teacher threatens to lynch student if he doesn’t get back to work (AP)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia courts have been wrongly excluding jurors (The Philly Declaration)
- TENNESSEE: Governor’s brother runs company loaded with racist executives going to prison (KnoxNews.com)
- TENNESSEE: No charges as Algood cop speeds 26+ mph over the limit, plows into elderly couple (WSMV 4)
- VIRGINIA: Outbound Governor reduces man’s insane 551-year sentence (Virginian Pilot)
- WASHINGTON: Judge pens blistering opinion upholding $15.1M verdict in police killing of unarmed black man (Seattle Times)
- WISCONSIN: Prison guards sued for breaking 16-year-old’s arm, raping him, leaving him naked for hours (Madison.com)
- WISCONSIN: Taxpayers pony up $800K after demanding transgender student wear green armband, surveilled his bathroom use (BuzzFeed)
- WISCONSIN: Long-read on the death of Jason Pero, and mistreatment of Native Americans by police (BuzzFeed)
- WISCONSIN: Teacher’s homework wants “3 good reasons for slavery” (WITI 6)
- UNITED KINGDOM: Police told suspected thief was white, then brutally arrest innocent black man (UK Guardian)
- Brady v Maryland (Oyez)
- Giglio v United States (Oyez)
- Strickler v Greene (Oyez)
- Wearry v Cain (Oyez)
- US Attorneys Manual section on Brady Material (USDOJ)
- USAM Criminal Resource Manual Guidance on Discovery (USDOJ)
- Some history on NC’s criminal discovery (UNC School of Government)