Month: January 2019

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Join us this week as we talk about Florida police lying to jail a man for possession of laundry detergent, Missouri police lying to cover up the shooting death of a cop by another cop, North Carolina police lying to keep an innocent man in prison for 42 years, and much (much) more!

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Anon, Trey Benfield, Rob Elder, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, Colleen Mahaney, Charlotte Mobley, and Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Brian Gilbreath, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• 4th Circuit: Charles Ray Finch, who’s spent 42 years of his life in prison for murder, is actually innocent (4th Circ COA)
• Vera Institute releases new tool to analyze arrest data, shows ~80% of all arrests are for minor offenses or non-criminal conduct (The Intercept)
• COLORADO: Lakewood PD officer Randall Shaun Butler charged for *3rd* sexual assault (KRDO 13)
  • Story on Butler’s first arrest (Denver Post)
  • And on Butler’s second arrest (Denver Post)
• FLORIDA: Martin County Sheriff’s Deputy Steven O’Leary fired for framing 11 people for drug possession (Miami Herald)
• GEORGIA: Albany PD officer Matthew Brown on video crashing into parked car while trying to murder man in parking lot (WALB 10)
  • The bystander video showing Brown’s crash (Twitter)
• KANSAS: Taxpayers to pay $1,100,000.00 to Richard Jones, who served 17 years for robbery he didn’t commit (ABC News)
• LOUISIANA: 5 deputies indicated in rape and beating at Washington Parish jail (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore police declare they will continue arresting people for cases the DA won’t prosecute (WMAR 2)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Fred Clay spent 37+ years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, taxpayers to pay $1,000,000.00 (WGBH 89.7)
• MISSOURI: St. Louis Metro PD killer cop Nathaniel Hendren executes off-duty SLMPD cop Katlyn Alix (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • After claiming it was an “accident,” police then say it was “Russian Roulette” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • And police claim the hospital wouldn’t honor a warrant for drug testing the killer cop (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Bryson City cops spend 6 months investigating glass pipes, brag about it (Raleigh News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD officer Michael Santiago charged with sexual battery for groping woman (WSOC 9)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville PD perv cop Wade Lane Lee Jr. kills himself after molesting child (Fayetteville Observer)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Massive exposé on state’s asset forfeiture system shows how system benefits police, screws taxpayers (Greenville News)
• TEXAS: Houston police summarily execute middle-aged couple Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas in botched drug raid (Reason)

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Surprise! It’s a new Fsck as we work on getting back into a production routine. Join us this week as we talk about a weird qualified immunity ruling from the US Virgin Islands, taxpayers shelling out $$$$$ for police f*ckery in California and New York, and two separate Pennsylvania officers from different departments in the same county both charged with sexually assaulting a half dozen women.

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Anon, Trey Benfield, Rob Elder, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, Colleen Mahaney, Charlotte Mobley, and Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Brian Gilbreath, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• 3rd Circuit: Qualified immunity for CBP agents who illegally searched vacationers’ cruise cabin (3rd Circ COA)
• ARIZONA: Tuscon PD officer Richard Daniel fired, arrested for sexual assaulting suspect (KTVK 3)
• CALIFORNIA: Jury awards $360,000.00 to family of Connor Zion, who died while Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Higgins repeatedly stomped on his head (Orange County Register)
• FLORIDA: Republican legislators try to limit impact of Amendment 4 by demanding payment of exorbitant fines from ex-felons (WLRN 91.3)
• FLORIDA: Miami-Dade PD had proof 15-year-old Deandre Charles was innocent, indicted him for murder anyway (Miami New Times)
• GEORGIA: Muscogee County judge blasts DA’s Office after Stanley Andrews is jailed for 3.7 years without trial (WRBL 3)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago man Geraldo Iglesias, framed by CPD detective Reynaldo Guevara, exonerated after spending 17 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit (BuzzFeed News)
  • Our episode on Guevara framing Geraldo Iglesias (Fsck #72)
  • And framing Thomas Sierra (Fsck #47)
  • And framing Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes (Fsck #42)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore police beat, arrest teenager trying to record them arresting innocent party after report of a fight (WBAL 11)
• MICHIGAN: Northville firefighter Patrick Nolan uses *helicopter* to stalk ex (WDIV 4)
• MISSOURI: St. Louis grand jury looks into perjury charge against DA Kim Gardner in case against former Gov. Greitens (KMOX 1120)
  • Our episode on the indictment against Greitens, later dismissed (Fsck #53)
• NEW YORK: NYC bicyclist Charles Puccio awarded $2,250,000.00 for injuries in attack by NYPD detective Noel Lawrence (Gothamist)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Ashley PD officer Mark Icker arrested for sexually assaulting female drivers (WNEP 16)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Wilkes-Barre PD officer Robert Collins arrested for raping 4 women (WNEP 16)
• TENNESSEE: Chattanooga PD officer Benjamin Piazza suspended with pay after being caught on video beating compliant driver (Chattanooga Times Free Press)