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It’s another long episode packed with criminal justice f*ckery! Join us as we talk about black police in California and New Mexico being abused by their colleagues, Pennsylvania spending $4,300 to save $60, and some accountability for police brutality in both Georgia and South Carolina!

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Show Notes:

• Rep. Chuck Grassley says your poor because of “booze or women or movies” (Des Moines Register)
• Cheeto-in-Chief commits to ending veteran homelessness, then cuts funding to end veteran homelessness (Politico)
• Roy Moore is an idiot, on top of being a pedophile and racist (CNN)
• Fourth Circuit: police can no longer ask minors to masturbate for them (4th Circuit COA)
• Analysis of the NCVS and why its 2017 results are problematic (FiveThirtyEight)
• Federal data on hate crimes is largely non-existent (ProPublica)
• Long-read exposé on the misuse of Tasers in jails and prisons (Reuters)
• Parole violations drive prison’s revolving door (The Conversation)
• Coast Guard operates secret floating prisons (USA Today)
• ARIZONA: Killer cop Mitch Brailsford found not guilty in the execution of Daniel Shaver (Washington Post)
• CALIFORNIA: Laguna Beach PD officer arrested for elder abuse and fraud (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: The media has gotten the “Brady list” of bad deputies (LA Times)
  • Our episode about the court ruling on this list (Fsck #19)
• CALIFORNIA: LAPD cadet joyrides went on for two months before anyone noticed (LA Times)
  • Our earlier episode with this scandal (Fsck #19)
• CALIFORNIA: Long-read on racial bias in the San Francisco PD (The Undefeated)
• CALIFORNIA: San Francisco prosecutor fired after hiding evidence (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • Our earlier episode on ADA Mains and PD Adachi (Fsck #27)
• CALIFORNIA: Pathologist resigns, claims Sheriff attempts to cover for police (KQED)
• CALIFORNIA: San Leandro cop Marco Becerra resigns after sex with 17-year-old (NBC Bay Area)
• CALIFORNIA: Nonprofit teaches computer coding skills to inmates (CNBC)
• DC: Addressing the mistrust between black youth and police (NPR)
• FLORIDA: Police arrest wrong man arrested for drug sale, spends 6 days in jail (Tampa Bay Times)
• GEORGIA: Atlanta officer Trevor King found guilty in tomato-related beating in Walmart (WSB 2)
• GEORGIA: Savannah officer saves unresponsive newborn (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• INDIANA: Indianapolis officer Francisco Olmos purged dead girl’s texts at scene of her death (The Daily Beast)
• INDIANA: Female captain suspended for saying coworker benefited from “white male privilege” (WRTV 6)
• KANSAS: Federal judge dismisses drug prosecution due to crooked prosecutor (KCTV 5)
  • Our episode on Lamonte McIntyre’s exoneration (Fsck #39)
• KENTUCKY: Great op-ed on the foolishness of the War on Weed (Richmond Register)
• LOUISIANA: Details on the abolition of in-person visitation (UK Guardian)
  • Visits were eliminated in Charlotte-Mecklenburg too (Fsck #39)
  • An earlier episode on the video visitation scam (Fsck #25)
• LOUISIANA: Audit finds retired police superintendent fleeced taxpayers for years (The Advocate)
• MARYLAND: Public defender wants new look at cases prosecuted by dirty cops (Baltimore Sun)
• MARYLAND: One of those dirty cops set up Det. Sean Suiter to find drugs (Baltimore Sun)
• MASSACHUSETTS: 6,000 new cases dismissed after more crime lab misconduct (Boston Globe)
  • Our earlier episode on crime lab chemist Sonja Farak (Fsck #31)
  • And on the crime lab flubbing DUIs (Fsck #33)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Judge rules arrests of cops, politicians are public records (Boston Globe)
• MICHIGAN: Man choked, arrested for paying $10 ticket with pennies (Fox 2 Detroit)
• MINNESOTA: Girlfriend of Philando Castile reaches $800,000.00 settlement agreement (NY Times)
  • Our episode on Castile’s killer going free (Fsck #11)
  • And then getting paid a year’s salary to quit (Fsck #16)
• MINNESOTA: Deputy Tom McBroom Sr. tweets that settlement will be “gone in 6 months on crack cocaine” (The Root)
• MISSOURI: School cop snaps 12-year-old’s arm (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• NEVADA: New study shows bodycams reduce use-of-force incidents (Las Vegas Sun)
  • Our episode with the DC bodycam study (Fsck #33)
• NEW JERSEY: Ex-Newark cop Dino D’Elia given 2 years probation for stealing personal info (NorthJersey.com)
• NEW JERSEY: Police catch squirrel responsible for vandalizing Christmas lights (WNYW 5)
• NEW MEXICO: Black ICE agent repeatedly stopped by deputies without cause (Associated Press)
• NEW YORK: NYPD’s 81st Precinct celebrates plant seizure (Twitter)
  • Some of the 81st Precinct’s history (Village Voice)
• NEW YORK: NYPD officer Reynaldo Lopez federally indicted for dealing heroin (NY Post)
• NEW YORK: Racist son of FDNY commissioner gets a promotion (NY Post)
• NEW YORK: Editorial on reforming the state’s contract with prison unions (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: 2 prison guards convicted for beating inmate, covering it up (US DOJ)
• NEW YORK: Rensallaer County DA indicted for obstruction (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: Suffolk County DAs got $3,250,000.00+ in bonuses from asset forfeiture (NewsDay)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Analysis of how NC makes it difficult for convicts to find jobs (John Locke Foundation)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Dashcam footage released in 2012 roadside beating by police (WRAL)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Long View woman unlawfully arrested for photographing police (WBTV 3)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Hackers compromise 48 county government servers (WSOC 9)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Tryon PD officers find a stray cat, add it to staff (ABC News)
• OHIO: Riverside officer accidentally tases partner during traffic stop (Dayton Daily News)
• OKLAHOMA: Judge creates fake rehab program for defendants (Center for Investigative Reporting)
  • Our earlier episode on CIR’s reporting (Fsck #36)
• OKLAHOMA: Killer cop Keith Sweeney charged with murder in death of suicidal man (Washington Post)
• OKLAHOMA: Jail nurse performs exorcism on dying inmate rather than providing treatment (KOCO 5)
• OREGON: State licensing board admits it violated law in “engineering without a license” case (Reason)
• PENNSYLVANIA: County spends $4,300 to fight $60 pants reimbursement (Penn Live)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Killer cop Michael Slager sentenced to 20 years (Post & Courier)
  • Our #Law140 on the Slager plea (Fsck #2)
• TEXAS: Corrupt judge Elizabeth Coker files to run for DA (Houston Chronicle)
• TEXAS: No executions this year in the “capital of capital punishment” (Houston Chronicle)
• TEXAS: Teacher calls police on mute 6-year-old with Downs Syndrome, claims he’s a terrorist (Fox 26 Houston)
• VIRGINIA: Charlottesville PD made “major mistakes” in handling protest (NPR)
• VIRGINIA: US Park Police summarily execute 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar (NBC News4)
• VIRGINIA: Charges dropped against mom who put recorder in daughter’s backpack (WTOP)
  • Our earlier episode on that lunacy (Fsck #39)
• WYOMING: Police issue man $25 seatbelt ticket, steal his $91,800.00 (Vox)
• UK: Police responsible for the death of Sean Rigg will not be charged (UK Guardian)

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T. Greg has been stuck preparing for a trial and hasn’t had a chance to write up an outline of all the craziness that happened last week, so we’re doing a short #Law140-only episode until he can get back in the studio! Join us as we talk about the Jose Zarate verdict in the killing of Kate Steinle, and the law on lesser included offenses.

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Show Notes:

• Details on the Jose Zarate case (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Sarah Rumpf’s column on the verdict (RedState)
• Ken “Popehat” White’s thread on arguing lesser offenses (Twitter)
• Follow Sarah Rumpf on Twitter
• Follow Ken White on Twitter
• Fuller v United States (Justia)
• Keeble v United States (Oyez)
• Beck v Alabama (Oyez)

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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)

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We’re taking the week off from regular podcasting as I process the passing of my beagle Samson. Our normal #Fsck episodes will return next week.

Show Notes:

• My 2011 blog entry from when Samson came home (law:/dev/null)
• A Samson selfie while we were in the drive-thru in 2014 (law:/dev/null)
• The Instagram account that was basically Samson’s (Instagram)
• My Patreon post on Samson’s final days (Patreon)

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This week we get scientific confirmation of the First Rule of Fsck, see the Third Rule of Fsck in action as police across the country sexually assault kids, and in our #Law140 segment we look at the constitutional rights students have when they’re searched for drugs at school.

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Show Notes:

• A timeline of the Trump administration’s Niger f*ckery (CNN)
• The White House says it’s “highly inappropriate” to question generals (Vox)
• Alt-Reich trolls smear widow with fake Facebook post (Twitter)
• “Acting white” for white people (National Review Online)
• New study confirms the First Rule of Fsck (New York Times)
• New police dashcams will identify you via facial recognition (CNN)
• Is the Supreme Court allergic to math? (FiveThirtyEight)
• Supreme Court opinions also have factual errors (ProPublica)
• Sessions DOJ warned about “Black Identity Extremists” right before Nazis killed people in Charlottesville (Foreign Policy)
• Gen. John Kelly ordered ICE to portray immigrants as criminals (The Intercept)
• DAs Associations lead efforts to block criminal justice reform (The Nation)
• Military investigators turn out to be sexual predators (Washington Post)
• US Marshal traded parking space for office sex (Washington Examiner)
• ALABAMA: Homewood PD refuses to return wrongly seized computers from repair shop (AL.com)
• ALABAMA: Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore says kneeling during anthem is against the law (it’s not) (AL.com)
• ARIZONA: Judge refuses to erase Arpaio conviction (DocumentCloud)
  • Our episode with Trump’s Arpaio pardon (Fsck #24)
• COLORADO: Denver officer gets 2 weeks vacation for hiring a prostitute (Denver Post)
• DC: Justice Department drops request for 6,000 people who “like”d anti-Trump FB page (Gizmodo)
• FLORIDA: Broward deputy Leon Campbell repeatedly raped 15-year-old girl (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: 3 Richard Spencer groupies charged with attempted murder at Nazi rally (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: Hialeah PD criticized for traffic ticket quota (WSVN 7)
• FLORIDA: Addict charged with 1st-degree murder for introducing friend to her dealer (Orlando Sentinel)
• FLORIDA: Exposé on the state’s juvenile justice system (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: Taxpayers pay $38K to settle lawsuit by man arrested for “meth” that was donut icing (Orlando Sentinel)
• GEORGIA: State Supreme Court lets prosecution of killer cop Robert Olsen proceed (WABE FM)
• GEORGIA: Republican state rep wants Government to quarantine those with HIV (WSB 2)
• ILLINOIS: Federal judge rules police can force you to use Touch ID to unlock your phone (Chicago Tribune)
  • Our #Law140 on phones and the Fifth (Fsck #7)
• INDIANA: Officer tases racecar driver for fighting another driver (IndyStar)
• INDIANA: Marion County jailers deny meds to mentally ill inmates (Fox 59)
• KENTUCKY: Video shows Covington cop handcuffing 8-year-old above the elbows (HuffPost)
• LOUISIANA: New Orleans experiments with ending cash bail… (CityLab)
• LOUISIANA: …because of abuses by magistrates like Magistrate Judge Harry Cantrell (The Nation)
• LOUISIANA: District Attorney sued for using fake subpoenas (Reason)
• MARYLAND: IRS seizes $59K from innocent veteran, refuses to return it (Washington Post)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Lengthy exposé on the state’s dysfunctional mental health system (Boston Globe)
• MASSACHUSETTS: State crime lab office withheld evidence in thousands of DUI cases since 2011 (Boston Globe)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Methuen police use false form to coerce Spanish-speaking drivers (Boston Globe)
• MISSISSIPPI: Reporter expelled from courthouse for reporting on judge giving cotton to reporter (LawNewz)
• MISSISSIPPI: Teacher suspended for suggesting black student be lynched (Jackson Free Press)
  • Mississippi led the nation in Jim Crow-era lynchings (NAACP)
• MISSISSIPPI: Police launch sex trafficking investigation due to reporter’s joke tweet (Magnolia State Live)
• MISSOURI: St. Louis police are triggered by clothes (Riverfront Times)
  • Our episode on the STL arrests (Fsck #28)
• NEVADA: Las Vegas judge tells felons they can have voting rights restored to vote for Trump (Nevada Independent)
• NEW JERSEY: Orange PD officer Hanifah Davis suspended for beating teenage girls (WABC 7)
• NEW YORK: Brooklyn judge wants to investigate police lying (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: NYPD cops who raped teen use her social media to avoid indictment (NY Post)
  • Our episode with this story (Fsck #31)
• NEW YORK: NYPD cop Adam Fridson arrested for exposing himself to minors (NY Post)
• NEW YORK: NYPD SVU closed rape cases too quickly, threatened victims (Newsweek)
• NEW YORK: NYPD Sergeant sexually assaults officer (NY Daily News)
• NEW YORK: Public defender writes about her client, killed by the justice system (NY Daily News)
• NEW YORK: NYPD admits it can’t access asset forfeiture database, has no backup (Reason)
• NEW YORK: New study maps geography of arrests for fare evasion to neighborhoods (In Justice Today)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Exposé on jail deaths across the state (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: State legislature mutilates the judiciary (New York Times)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Sheriff candidate “not credible,” unable to be used as witness in court (WBTV 3)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Baptist minister repossesses dead 5-year-old’s tombstone (News & Observer)
• OHIO: Officer Michael Amiott has been fired (Cleveland.com)
  • Our episode covering the original Amiott beating video (Fsck #22)
  • And the subsequent dashcam video showing Amiott lied (Fsck #23)
• OKLAHOMA: School district adopts (unconstitutional) policy requiring students to stand for the anthem (KTUL 8)
• OREGON: Federal agents enter home without warrant, arrest man (Oregon Live)
• OREGON: Police rack up $1,900,000.00+ in overtime staffing protests (Willamette Week)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Dupont police officer and serial abuser David Turkos gets 9 months for molesting 4-, 6-year-old boys (Raw Story)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Police put 86-year-old black man in coma “for his own good” (Post & Courier)
• TENNESSEE: Sevier deputy Justin Johnson loses his sh*t during welfare check (Knoxville News Sentinel)
• VIRGINIA: White middle school students hold down black ones, simulate sex while shouting racial slurs (KTUL)
• New Jersey v TLO (Oyez)
• Vernonia School District 47J v Acton (Oyez)
• Board of Education of ISD No 92 v Earls (Oyez)
• Safford Unified School District No 1 v Redding (Oyez)
• Excellent law review article on this topic by Emily Gold Waldman (Pace University)

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This week we talk about the President’s silence on Green Berets ambushed in Niger, a profanity-laden voicemail left for a college professor by a Fox News viewer (and probation officer), plus a wide-ranging political discussion with two of my closest friends from college. Then in our #Law140 segment, we discuss the law on citizen warrants and the arrest of DeAndre Harris.

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Show Notes:

• Our special guests this week are Dave Foxx and James Hankins! (Twitter)
• Cheeto-in-Chief quiet on 4 soldiers killed in Niger (CNN)
• NC Attorney General joins California lawsuit on illegal subsidies (News & Observer)
  • The District Court opinion in House v. Price (SCOTUSblog)
• Supreme Court grants certiorari in McCoy v. Louisiana (NY Times)
• Poll: Republicans support stripping citizenship of flag burners, banning police criticism (Reason)
• Jail telephone providers are big donors to Sheriffs’ campaigns (Prison Policy Initiative)
• More than half of 2015’s killings by police were intentionally misclassified (The Guardian)
• Leaked guidelines on federal asset forfeiture practices (The Intercept)
• CALIFORNIA: Charges dropped against 2 cops who raped underage girl (Reason)
• CALIFORNIA: Prosecutor illegally withholds evidence, says she’d do it again (MyNewsLA)
• COLORADO: New study on rampant constitutional violations in city courts (ACLU)
• GEORGIA: 3 officers arrested for role in 1983 murder of black man (ABC News)
• GEORGIA: 2-year-old denied liver transplant because father is on probation (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• LOUISIANA: Sheriff Steve Prator laments having to release his slaves (NY Times)
• MARYLAND: 4th Baltimore cop pleads guilty to federal racketeering charges (Baltimore Sun)
• MARYLAND: Probation officer leaves “n*gger”-filled voicemails for college professor (Facebook)
• MISSISSIPPI: Biloxi bans To Kill A Mockingbird (AL.com)
• MISSOURI: Overburdened public defenders refuse new cases (KCUR)
• NEW JERSEY: High school teacher tells students to “speak American” (Splinter)
• NEW MEXICO: Deputy pulls gun on passing motorcyclist (KRQE News 13)
• NEW YORK: NYPD officer indicted for raping 15-year-old girl (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: DA Cy Vance throws NYPD under the bus after being exposed in Weinstein case (Twitter)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Alamance police arrest man for Facebook joke (Durham Herald-Sun)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Mecklenburg gets $2M grant to reform its bail system (In Justice Today)
• OREGON: Federal police put hoods on protestors before arrest (Seattle Times)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Delco DA uses asset forfeiture money for campaign billboards (City&State PA)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: White restaurant owner enslaved black man (Washington Post)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: School board member calls fellow members “darkies” in email (SC Now)
• TENNESSEE: Federal judge restores 2 poor drivers’ licenses (Reason)
• UTAH: Crooked cop Jeff Payne has been fired (Salt Lake Tribune)
  • Our episode with Payne’s arrest of a nurse (Fsck #25)
  • And Internal Affairs “sustaining findings” against him (Fsck #27)
  • And his history of sexual harassment (Fsck #28)
  • And the police union whining he was “made a pariah” (Fsck #31)
• VIRGINIA: Man beaten by white supremacists is arrested via civilian warrant (The Root)
• VIRGINIA: Charlottesville sues Alt-Reich organizers (TPM)
• VIRGINIA: Charlottesville PD arrests a candidate for DA just before the election (The Intercept)
• Linda R.S. v. Richard D. (Oyez)
• NC’s arrest warrant statute (NC General Assembly)
• VA’s arrest warrant statute (Virginia Decoded)
• Terrific overview on citizen warrants in NC (UNC School of Government)

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We’re back! This week in political news we cover Melba Mao’s spat with Senator Bob Corker, and in our criminal justice segment we go over an excellent analysis of how the War on Drugs contributes to mass incarceration, an Arkansas judge pleads guilty to offering leniency in exchange for nude photos, a Georgia sheriff is indicted for sexually abusing high school students, and much (much) more!

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Show Notes:

• Sen. Corker speaks his mind on the Papaya POTUS… (Twitter)
• …and tweets his assessment too (Twitter)
• Trump praises Vegas shooter as “smart” (Toronto Star)
• Ninth Circuit vacates murder conviction due to Miranda violation (Ninth Circuit COA)
• Excellent analysis of the War on Drugs and mass incarceration (Medium)
• Study shows “broken windows policing” increases crime (Nature)
• Study shows decarceration doesn’t increase crime (Open Philanthropy Project)
• How peer mentorship can change police culture (The Atlantic)
• Shaun King launches a new weekly Injustice Roundup (Medium)
• National DAs’ org tries to stoke weed fear (Twitter)
• American Conservative Magazine notes police violence is systemic (American Conservative)
• How conservatives came to love free lawyers for the poor (The Marshall Project)
• Uncle Sam will start collecting your social media info (BuzzFeed)
• ALASKA: Inmates stripped naked, paraded on dog leashes (New York Times)
• ARKANSAS: Judge pleads guilty to giving lighter sentences for nudes (Chicago Tribune)
• ARIZONA: 14-year-old with autism violently arrested by mistake (ABC 15)
• CALIFORNIA: Rocklin PD officer Brad Alford arrested for beating suspect with baton (Sacramento Bee)
• COLORADO: MAGA accounts spread rumors of USAFA active shooter (Twitter)
• COLORADO: Ex-Nazi removes swastika tattoos in tribute to black parole officer (ABC News)
• FLORIDA: Miami Beach man arrested for parody police account (Miami New Times)
• GEORGIA: GA Supreme Court clears man arrested for flipping off his pastor (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• GEORGIA: Suicidal jailer summarily executed by sheriff’s deputy (PINAC)
• GEORGIA: Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby indicted for sexual battery (WSB-TV 2)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago PD officer John Catanzara reprimanded for protesting while in uniform (Chicago Tribune)
• INDIANA: Police shoot at actor filming movie (Fox 59)
• LOUISIANA: Former death row inmate John Thompson has passed away (New Orleans Advocate)
• LOUISIANA: Police officer’s lawsuit against Deray McKesson is LOL’d out of court (Dropbox)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore PD technician Timika Jones pleads guilty to dealing drugs (Baltimore Sun)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Exposé on rampant prosecutorial misconduct in drug cases (Washington Post)
• MICHIGAN: Director of State Police calls protestors “ungrateful degenerates” (Detroit Free Press)
• MICHIGAN: Rapist granted joint custody (Detroit News)
• MINNESOTA: Criminal cops get to keep their badges (Star Tribune)
• MINNESOTA: Domestic abusers get to keep their badges too (Star Tribune)
• MISSOURI: More journalists arrested for being journalists (US Press Freedom Tracker)
• MISSOURI: 77-year-old man given 10 years federal time for weed (Springfield News-Leader)
• NEW YORK: Police rape teenager while on duty, later claim consent (NY Daily News)
• NEW YORK: NYPD Cop James Frascatore sues tennis star he wrongly arrested (NY Post)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Elected Charlotte DA blocks the poor from deferred prosecutions (Charlotte Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: High speed chase leads to 5 dead (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Puppycide in Troutman (Statesville Record & Landmark)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Man arrested for hiding his weed… in the bushes at the courthouse (WRAL)
• OHIO: New US Attorney immediately shuts down civil rights division (Cleveland.com)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Fire chief Paul Smith resigns after posting comments about “no good n*ggers” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• TENNESSEE: Man with car arsenal attacks police, arrested alive (AP)
• TENNESSEE: Memphis PD gives inside info to rapist (Commercial Appeal)
• TENNESSEE: Killer cop Connor Schilling arrested for DUI (Commercial Appeal)
• TEXAS: State Bar pursuing disciplinary action against crooked prosecutor (Texas Lawyer)
• TEXAS: 17-year-old expelled for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance (NY Daily News)
  • Earlier #Fsck: Michigan student assaulted for sitting during Pledge (Fsck #27)
• UTAH: Nurse charged with negligent homicide in death of Madison Jensen (Salt Lake Tribune)
  • Jensen was mentioned in our very first episode (Fsck #1)
• UTAH: Police execute 50-year-old homeless man Patrick Harmon (Salt Lake Tribune)
• UTAH: Police union “dismayed” that cop was made a “pariah” for false arrest (KSL.com)
  • Our episode with the nurse’s arrest (Fsck #25)
  • And Internal Affairs “sustaining findings” against the officers (Fsck #27)
  • And Officer Payne’s history of sexual harassment (Fsck #28)
• CANADA: Police K-9 shoots pistol (Global News)