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Join us this week as we cover the Attorney General resurrecting civil asset forfeiture, a big win for a pro se litigant down in Florida, the latest in misbehavior by law enforcement around the country, and then spend our #Law140 segment talking about ways to get involved with reforming our justice system.
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Show Notes:
- Sean Spicer has resigned, and the new guy is about the same as the old guy (Washington Post)
- Naranjillo Nixon wants everyone to know he has “complete power to pardon” (Twitter)
- The Apricot Authoritarian had some choice words about the Attorney General (New York Times)
- Attorney General Beauregard perjured himself… (Washington Post)
- …and is bringing back civil asset forfeiture with a vengeance (Twitter)
- 11th Circuit rules in favor of a pro se litigant on recording police (Scribd)
- The Illinois Supreme Court ends a prosecutor’s roving group of highway bandits (Forbes)
- Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court says its new sex offender registry is an ex post facto law (Sentencing Law & Policy Blog)
- New Jersey’s Supreme Court rules police video is a public record (NJ.com)
- Colorado’s Court of Appeals ends the use of K9s for traffic drug searches (Justia)
- CJ Ciaremella on bad forensic labs (Reason Magazine)
- Excellent long-form piece on defense attorneys who become elected DAs (Christian Science Monitor)
- 99% of the jail population growth over the past 15 years: pre-trial detention (Arizona Capitol Times)
- The federal Bureau of Prisons deals with the mentally ill by tossing them in solitary (The Marshall Project)
- ALASKA: Police fight for their right to sleep with prostitutes before arrest (Glamour Magazine)
- ARIZONA: Inmates testify to inhumane prison conditions (KJZZ 91.5)
- CALIFORNIA: Perris police beat, arrest 52-year-old woman for selling unlicensed flowers (UK Daily Mail)
- COLORADO: Boulder cops will now ticket you for not pressing the crosswalk button (Fox 31)
- COLORADO: Longmont PD refuses to release details on that illegal training exercise (The Times-Call)
- Our podcast on the Longmont program (Fsck ‘Em All)
- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Secret Service attempts to stop an anti-Trump protest (Periscope)
- FLORIDA: Ocoee police commit puppycide (Fox 35)
- ILLINOIS: Great editorial on ending taillight policing (Chicago Tribune)
- MARYLAND: Baltimore police catch themselves planting drugs (Baltimore Sun)
- MINNESOTA: Minneapolis bodycam released confirming last week’s puppycide (StarTribune)
- MINNESOTA: And the Chief of Police has resigned (StarTribune)
- MISSOURI: St Louis County police tape paper over security cameras to avoid doing their jobs (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- NEW HAMPSHIRE: Gilford police spend the day herding buffalo (Yahoo News)
- NEW JERSEY: Dashcam video of the Rahway mayor’s reckless driving has been released (NJ.com)
- NEW YORK: 18-year-old Pedro Hernandez is in Rikers for a murder 9 people say he didn’t commit (Pix 11)
- OHIO: Ray Tensing will officially get away with the murder of Samuel DuBose (WCPO 9)
- OHIO: police prosecute a 9th grader for not paying a free fare (WKYC 3))
- PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia’s Police Advisory Commission refuses to investigate the execution of David Jones (WHYY)
- SOUTH CAROLINA: Psychological exams will now be mandatory for all police (US News)
- SOUTH CAROLINA: Spartanburg officer arrests an 11-year-old boy and his mother for literally nothing (Twitter)
- TENNESSEE: White County judge Sam Benningfield brings back eugenics (NBC News)
- TEXAS: Balch Springs officer Roy Oliver has been indicted for murder (Twitter)
- UTAH: Orem police claimed to put a 17-year-old on a terrorist watchlist for Instagram (BuzzFeed)
- VERMONT: Burlington police release bodycam video arresting 18-year-old Logan Huysman (The Root)
- WASHINGTON: Thurston County Sheriff’s Office recommends assault charges against two Shelton police officers for brutally beating a homeless man (The Olympian)
- WASHINGTON: A 14-year-old girl is beaten in Vancouver for stealing candy (KATU 2)
- Right on Crime
- The R Street Institute
- The Charles Koch Institute
- Southern Coalition for Social Justice
- Campaign Zero
- My criminal justice platform from my NC Senate campaign