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The Copper Kaiser spent the week feuding with sports figures instead of governing the country, Oklahoma police kill a deaf man for being deaf while another Oklahoma officer is arrested for helping a carjacking ring, and in Oregon all Hispanic people look alike (to ICE anyway). Then in our #Law140 segment we talk about Government employees retaliating against citizens for First Amendment-protected expression.

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Show Notes:

• The Copper Kaiser dislikes dissent (The Guardian)
• Jared has an email problem (Politico)
• The National Museum of African American History and Culture turns 1 (NPR)
• Qualified immunity for coach forcing kid to play football with concussion (Third Circuit COA)
• No qualified immunity for Sheriff Clarke’s jail (Seventh Circuit COA)
• No qualified immunity for killer deputy Erik Gelhaus (Ninth Circuit COA)
• Excellent piece on America’s long history of opposing protests (Washington Post)
• Police are used to exterminate the disabled (The Nation)
• Customs & Border Patrol runs illegal security teams (The Hill)
• FBI lets informants run amok (Gizmodo)
• ALABAMA: 10 years in prison, still no trial for Kharon Davis (NY Times)
• ALASKA: Murder conviction thrown out due to DA’s misrepresentations (US News)
• CALIFORNIA: Huntington Beach police kill again (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: California Highway Patrol kills again (ABC 7)
• CALIFORNIA: SFPD Officer arrested for filing a false report (San Francisco Chronicle)
• FLORIDA: FEMA tweets a phone sex hotline (Miami Herald)
• ILLINOIS: Urbana taxpayers owe $35,000 for police arrest of Facebook flag burning (Chicago Tribune)
• KENTUCKY: Corrections officer fined for having sex with inmates (The Courier-Journal)
• LOUISIANA: Probation and an essay for homicide – when you’re white (The Times-Picayune)
• LOUISIANA: Bond for a triple homicide – when you’re white (The Advocate)
• MARYLAND: Lamar Johnson freed after 13 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit (Baltimore Sun)
• MICHIGAN: Hazel Park cop investigated for embezzling $85,000 (Detroit Free-Press)
• MICHIGAN: Lawsuit filed in jail death of woman needing medical care (MLive.com)
• MICHIGAN: Lawsuit filed by man who spent 9 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit (WXYZ)
• MISSISSIPPI: Middle school teacher Cammie Rone has thoughts on race (WVTM 13)
• MISSOURI: St Louis PD arrests a reporter for reporting (St Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • They also arrested a police officer by accident (St Louis Post-Dispatch)
• MISSOURI: Police union terrorizes pizza shop (HuffPost)
  • This happened in New Jersey too (Fsck #22)
  • And in North Carolina (Fsck #2)
• NEW YORK: NYPD tases a man to death (NY Post)
• NEW YORK: How the justice system killed Kalief Browder (FEE)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Murder charges dropped against Shawn Butler (Durham Herald-Sun)
• OKLAHOMA: OKC police execute Magdiel Sanchez, a deaf man, for heinous crime of being deaf (NBC News)
• OKLAHOMA: OKC officer indicted for helping carjacking ring (KOCO 5)
• OREGON: To ICE, all Hispanic people look alike (The Oregonian)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh PD uses man as punching bag (TribLive)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Newspaper prints letter on “the virtues of slavery” (The State)
• SOUTH DAKOTA: Republican legislator supports vehicular homicide (USA Today)
• TEXAS: Bodycam law lets police review all video before giving statements (Texas Observer)
• TEXAS: Prisons stop using solitary confinement for punishment (Houston Chronicle)
• UTAH: Jeff Payne had a record of sexual harassment before arresting nurse (TalkingPointsMemo)
  • Our episode with the nurse’s arrest (Fsck #25)
  • And Internal Affairs “sustaining findings” against the officers (Fsck #27)
• WASHINGTON: Whidbey police kill a naval officer (South Whidbey Record)
• WASHINGTON: 17yo convicted of child pornography for taking a dick pic of himself (Reason)
• Pickering v Board of Education (Oyez)
• Connick v Myers (Oyez)
• Garcetti v Ceballos (Oyez)
• Lane v Franks (Oyez)
• Bd of County Comm’rs v Umbehr (Oyez)
• Perry v Sindermann (Oyez)
• Crawford-El v Britton (Oyez)
• Hartman v Moore (Oyez)

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This week we talk about Bonespur Brezhnev abandoning his base, a Michigan student physically assaulted by a teacher over the Pledge of Allegience, yet another white cop going unpunished for killing an unarmed black man in Missouri, and a uniquely Texan dispute between a criminal wanting to run for judge and a criminal running the District Attorney’s Office.

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Show Notes:

• Papaya POTUS sides with Dems on the debt ceiling (Washington Post)
• …and on DACA (NY Times)
• …and on the wall (Bloomberg)
• …and on Paris (Wall Street Journal)
• Seventh Circuit affirms excluding “department policy” evidence in brutality trial (Seventh Circuit COA)
• Judge Alex Kozinski drops fire dissent in warrantless search case (Ninth Circuit COA)
• Deported DACA participant will be readmitted for deposition (The Hill)
• Governments are now suing people seeking public records (AP)
• Police bodycam footage is generally not a public record (Ars Technica)
• Police don’t act like brutality is isolated (The Blaze)
• Fox News fibs about 2017 police deaths (Twitter)
• AG Beauregard ends another police accountability program (The Hill)
• Sessions: “The first civil right is to be alive.” (The Hill)
• NYT Op-Ed suggests revisiting the science of sex offenders (New York Times)
• Today in stupid questions: Should police obey the President, or the courts? (New York Times)
• New study shows the high cost of criminalizing unemployment (Phys.org)
• Former prosecutor on why police see all black men as thugs (USA Today)
• The first-ever database to track criminal cops (Vice)
• 2017 is on track to have the 2nd-lowest crime rate since 1990 (Washington Post)
• ARIZONA: Motel 6 shares guest lists with the Feds (Phoenix New Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Video released of UC Berkeley police pilfering vendor’s wallet (Twitter)
• CALIFORNIA: Fresno PD detain assailant without killing him (Fresno Bee)
• CALIFORNIA: DAs decide killer cop Matthew Hernandez acted in self-defense killing unarmed college student (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: LAPD prioritizes break-ins among the rich, ignores burglaries of the poor (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Public Defender accuses DA’s Office of withholding DNA evidence (SFGate)
• COLORADO: Video released of police brutalizing an Aurora woman in 2015 (Denver Post)
• FLORIDA: Sheriff Grady Judd is getting sued over shelter policy (The Hill)
• FLORIDA: Polk County Deputy Russell Hilson arrested for beating his girlfriend (The Ledger)
• FLORIDA: Gainesville cop goes viral for being “hot”; turns out he’s a Nazi (Yahoo News)
• GEORGIA: GT Campus Police execute a suicidal student (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago Conviction Integrity Unit looks into Roosevelt Myles (BuzzFeed)
  • Our episode with Roosevelt Myles story (Fsck #24)
• INDIANA: Video released showing Assistant Police Chief punching man in the groin for sport (RedState)
• KANSAS: Viral video of officer drawing a gun on two sovereign citizens (The Root)
• LOUISIANA: Corrupt Sheriff settles lawsuit over search of critics’ home (Reason)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore PD officer Christopher Spivey is acquitted, jurors stay to lick boots (WBAL 11)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore PD Sergeant steals $10,000 from citizen, who ends up dead (Baltimore Sun)
• MARYLAND: DOJ won’t prosecute Freddie Gray’s killers (The Hill)
• MICHIGAN: Farmington Hills teacher assaults student for not standing during Pledge of Allegiance (ClickOnDetroit)
• MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD officer David Campbell charged with raping son’s 16yo girlfriend (StarTribune)
• MINNESOTA: St. Kate’s University security guard blames black man for gunshot; shot himself (StarTribune)
• MISSOURI: Bogus charges dropped against Fred Watson after 5 years (Reason)
• MISSOURI: Killer cop Jason Stockley goes free (CNN)
  • The judge’s order in the Stockley verdict (St Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • Judge Timothy Wilson’s excuses are pathetic (Slate)
• MISSOURI: Police threaten to tear gas a sanctuary; #GasTheSynagogue trends (The Times of Israel)
• NEW HAMPSHIRE: Teens try to lynch 8yo, police shrug (RawStory)
• NEW JERSEY: New amnesty program launched after two dozen arrested for welfare fraud (NBC New York)
• NEW JERSEY: Three CBP agents charged federally for running a “rape table” at Newark Int’l (US DOJ)
• NEW JERSEY: Former Edison PD officer Michael Dotro sentenced to 20 years for arson (Time)
• NEW JERSEY: Eric Kelley and Ralph Lee exonerated for a murder they didn’t commit (Innocence Project)
• NEW YORK: NYPD releases bodycam of the killing of Miguel Richards (Patch)
• NEW YORK: Thousands of cases rely on faulty DNA testing techniques (ProPublica)
• NEW YORK: Long-form piece on Muslim officer Bobby Hadid (New Yorker)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Durham PD officer crashes his car into a tractor trailer (WRAL)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Durham PD Chief says info re KKK rally was “not credible” (Herald-Sun)
  • Our episode with how that day went down (Fsck #23)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Data shows the Durham Sheriff racially profiles drivers (WNCN)
  • Here’s the Open Data Policing website (SCSJ)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Judge refuses to accept guilty plea in Confederate memorial case, says no crime (Burlington Times-News)
• OHIO: Seven Days of Heroin series (Cincinnati Enquirer)
• OHIO: Clark County Deputy Jake Shaw shoots a photographer (Washington Post)
• OHIO: Cleveland PD officer Kenneth Bolton Jr pleads guilty to violating 2 women with a sex toy (The Grio)
• OHIO: Firefighter argues “one dog is more important than a million n*ggers” (HuffPost)
• OREGON: Multnomah County DA is phasing out grand juries (Portland Mercury)
• OREGON: Editorial on the racist legacy of the state’s jury system (Mail Tribune)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Cumberland County DA David Freed promises to do better with Nazis (Penn Live)
  • Our earlier episode on Freed’s Nazi clerk (Fsck #25)
• PENNSYLVANIA: State Rep. Aaron Bernstine promises to do a Charlottesville if he gets the chance (Twitter)
• TENNESSEE: Nashville woman shoots homeless man for sport (KTNV)
• TEXAS: Judicial candidate wants record expunged, opposed by drug-dealing DA (San Antonio Express-News)
• UTAH: An internal review “sustains findings” against officers who arrested nurse (Fox 13)
• VERMONT: New State Police policy limits disclosure of crime info (CJR)
• VIRGINIA: Richmond bans poles, bats, sticks… but guns are cool (Twitter)
• NEW ZEALAND: Data shows police regularly tase people they shouldn’t (Twitter)
• UNITED KINGDOM: Police tell black man “you’d be the first one I’d shoot” (The Guardian)

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We’ve had so much criminal justice news in just a week that we’re skipping the politics entirely 😱 Tune in for the Georgia cop admitting they only kill black people, the 15-year-old boy Detroit police killed via taser, the Oregon deputy pulling his gun during a routine traffic stop, and the nurse arrested for protecting an unconscious police officer from the Salt Lake City PD. Then in our #Law140 segment we talk about the scope of the First Amendment and how it relates to incitement.

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Show Notes:

• Your President is still an idiot, Part 1 (CNBC)
• Your President is still an idiot, Part 2 (Deadline Hollywood)
• Your President is still an idiot, Part 3 (LA Times)
• And North Korea is testing out its latest nukes (Wired)
• Court confirms: you can record police from your doorstep (Eighth Circuit)
• Georgia’s Sentinel Offender Services is paying out another settlement (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• The DA of Multnomah County OR has permanently bypassed a judge (Willamette Week)
• Jerome Deamus gets a new trial after the Dallas DA hid evidence (Injustice Today)
• Unicorn porn and beer is now officially legal in Utah (Reason)
• Charlotte School of Law wanted a (literal) gold mine (Charlotte Observer)
• The Government’s 1033 program has negligible benefits… (American Economic Journal)
• …and encourages police violence (Cato)
• Video visitation is often an expensive scam (Wired)
• A Harvard Law professor on his work freeing the innocent (YouTube)
• ARIZONA: A thread on the judge who found Joe Arpaio in contempt (Twitter)
• ARIZONA: ICE is deporting a United States Marine (Tuscon Sentinel)
• CALIFORNIA: Tatyana Hargrove files suit (The Root)
  • Our earlier podcast on Miss Hargrove (Fsck #16)
  • And the follow-up on the charges being dismissed (Fsck #20)
• COLORADO: The 26yo attacked by a random black guy? He stabbed himself (Gizmodo)
• FLORIDA: School principal suspended for racist Facebook posts (LawNewz)
• GEORGIA: Grand jury refuses to indict officer who shot 16-year-old in the back (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• GEORGIA: Cobb County cop to passenger: “We only kill black people” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• GEORGIA: Criticize participation trophies, get threatened with death (Raw Story)
• IDAHO: Legislators ask AG Sessions to stop prosecuting white criminals (Idaho Statesman)
• IDAHO: Jury awards $1.5M to police whistleblower (Idaho Statesman)
• ILLINOIS: State DOJ wants to intervene on Chicago (Washington Post)
• MARYLAND: Another Baltimore cop indicted for racketeering (Baltimore Sun)
• MARYLAND: Taxpayers ordered to pay $500K for brutality (Washington Post)
• MICHIGAN: Cop randomly beats black man in gas station (Fox 2)
• MICHIGAN: Cops tase, kill 15yo Demond Grimes (ABC 7)
• MINNESOTA: The ex-Minneapolis PD Chief is getting $$$$$ (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  • Follow Tony Webster (@webster) for more (Twitter)
• MINNESOTA: Undercover St. Paul officer attacks random citizen (PINAC)
• NEW YORK: The Bail Expediting Program is getting expanded (NY Times)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Durham’s Sheriff’s Office continues the crazy (Durham Herald Sun)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Magistrate running for mayor lists “white” as credential (Charlotte Observer)
• OHIO: Officer Michael Amiott has a track record of brutality (NY Post)
• OHIO: Cops protest anthem protest by protesting anthem (Cleveland.com)
• OKLAHOMA: Colbert PD Chief Alsbrook was in a skinhead documentary (Fox KXII)
• OREGON: Portland police want better press (Portland Tribune)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Teacher charged with “terroristic threats” for free speech (Philly.com)
• PENNSYLVANIA: FOP calls activists “pack of rabid animals,” defends Nazi (HuffPost)
• PENNSYLVANIA: DA under fire for having Nazi as law clerk (PennLive)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Participating in the 1033 program was a bad idea (Daily Beast)
• TEXAS: Police clear Gary Tuli for punching a 14yo girl in the face (San Antonio Current)
• Our episode with that incident (Fsck #6)
• UTAH: Nurse arrested for following the law… (Reason)
  • …to protect an unconscious police officer (Twitter)
• VIRGINIA: Nazis coordinated with police about Charlottesville (ProPublica)
• WASHINGTON: Off-duty deputy pulls gun for random traffic stop (Seattle Times)
• WISCONSIN: Police wrongly withheld report on arrested officer (Madison.com)
• WISCONSIN: A 16yo inmate is held in solitary for over a month (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• CHINA: A Shanghai woman gets leveled by a police officer (NY Times)
• The First Amendment (LII)
• Schenk v. United States (Oyez)
• Ken White’s write-up on the Schenk Trilogy (Popehat)
• Brandenburg v Ohio (Oyez)
• US v Stevens (Oyez)
• Snyder v Phelps (Oyez)
• Reed v Town of Gilbert (Oyez)
• McCullen v Coakley (Oyez)
• Matal v Tam (Oyez)
• Citizens United v FEC (Oyez)
• An overview on Time / Place / Manner restrictions (UMKC.edu)
• Our podcast with a #Law140 on TPM restrictions (Fsck #9)

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This week we unveil a new Rule of Fsck: there are no new stories, just new faces and jurisdictions. We also cover the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense giving their opinions on the President, an Oklahoma police officer running a white nationalist record label, and Baltimore police caught planting evidence yet again. Then in our #Law140 segment we review the President’s pardon powers, and how they will impact Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

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Show Notes:

• Gorka is gone (CNN)
• The Apricot Authoritarian pardons Arpaio (CNN)
• In doing so, Trump tells the judiciary to f*ck off (NY Times)
• Tillerson: Trump doesn’t speak for America (Twitter)
• Mattis: “Hold the line” (Twitter)
• Dorito Duterte wants more MRAPs for local cops (USA Today)
• The Secret Service is broke (Twitter)
• Disturbing study on economic (non-)mobility of black men (Brookings Institution)
• Law review article on “The Crime of ‘Disrespect'” (Racism.org)
• Taser works hard to influence investigations (Reuters)
• ICE works hard to deport students (The Guardian)
• Sam Sinyangwe on the economics of incarceration (Twitter)
• DC judge orders website to disclose visitors (Washington Post)
• Circuit court denies qualified immunity claim (Ninth Circuit)
• ARIZONA: A thread on Sheriff Joe’s greatest hits (Twitter)
• ARIZONA: Phoenix police shoot a 29-year-old in the groin (ABC 15)
• CALIFORNIA: Judge Kreep is a creep (Twitter)
• FLORIDA: Lakeland PD officers clog in-car memory cards on purpose (NBC 8 WFLA)
• FLORIDA: 28yo veteran Kristen Ambury is executed by SWAT (ABC 10)
• GEORGIA: Gwinnett Judge Jim Hinkle has resigned (Splinter)
  • Our episode with Judge Hinkle’s commentary (Fsck #23)
• ILLINOIS: Court orders new trial, man still waiting 16+ yrs later (BuzzFeed News)
• LOUISIANA: 3 pedestrians were hit by a truck; they got the ticket (KATC 3)
• MARYLAND: Yet another bodycam video of police planting evidence (Baltimore Sun)
  • You’ve heard about this practice before (Fsck #20)
  • It’s a common theme with Baltimore PD (Fsck #17)
• MASSACHUSETTS: State legislature considers citations over arrests (Lowell Sun)
• MISSOURI: Gov. Greitens stays an execution over DNA evidence (CNN)
• NEVADA: Cliven Bundy’s co-conspirators found not guilty (Las Vegas Sun)
• NEW MEXICO: ATF in Albuquerque spend their time fabricating crime (NM In Depth)
• NEW YORK: Editorial on the crime of living in a poor neighborhood (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: Editorial on getting justice when you’re broke (USA Today)
• NEW YORK: NYPD officers bounced from flight for being drunk (NY Post)
• NEW YORK: 22yo Juwan Parker beaten unconscious (Facebook)
  • Here’s the official write-up (Daily Gazette)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Crooked DAs conspired before one was even elected (Greensboro News & Record)
  • Our earlier episode when they were charged (Fsck #12)
  • And when we first mentioned them (Fsck #7)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Attempted murder charges dropped against a Klansman (Triad City Beat)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Alamance commissioner thinks slaves are “workers” (The Times-News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Onslow Sheriff has a reporter arrested; charge dismissed (News in Onslow)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Jail employee charged with selling drugs to inmates (WRAL)
• OHIO: Akron teenager magically shoots himself while handcuffed (ABC News5)
• OHIO: Supreme Court Justice Bill O’Neill is an imbecile (Deadspin)
• OKLAHOMA: Police chief builds a white nationalist record label (Raw Story)
  • Our episode with the Chicago officer running white nationalist websites himself (Fsck #16)
• TEXAS: Two exonerated after 21 years in jail (CBS News)
• TEXAS: CBP keeps its checkpoints running as people flee a hurricane (Texas Tribune)
• TEXAS: ICE strands a bus of women and children mid-hurricane (BuzzFeed News)
• TEXAS: Deputy Chase Welch shoots a 3rd person in a year (Houston Chronicle)
• VIRGINIA: ACLU releases video of police ignoring Nazi shooting (NY Times)
• Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution (National Archives)
• Federalist No. 69 (Avalon Project)
• Ex Parte Garland (Justia)
• Burdick v. US (Justia)
• FAQs on Executive Clemency (US DOJ)

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When it comes to Nazis, President Trump has more flip-flops than a hipster-infested beach on Independence Day. Durham’s Confederate participation trophy is removed by protestors, Maryland can’t find prison guards who aren’t criminals, and Tennessee runs an entire criminal justice system without judges or defense attorneys. And in this week’s #Law140 segment, we take a look at the mechanics of felony charges against those #DefendDurm protestors.

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CORRECTION (08/22/17): Folks on Twitter informed us that Clark County is in Washington, not Oregon. We’ve corrected the show notes below – thanks for the heads up!

Show Notes:

• Steve Bannon is out (CNN)
• The Kimchi Klansman condemns Nazis… (CNN)
• …before un-condemning them (ABC News)
• And the Nacho Nazi’s enablers in Congress don’t know what to do (NY Magazine)
• Durham had an interesting Friday (Durham Herald-Sun)
• A surprising court ruling on warrants (DC Circuit)
• Man can sue after being wrongly imprisoned 23 years (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• Charlotte School of Law is closed (Above the Law)
• Judges allow junk science when they shouldn’t (AP)
  • Our #Law140 on scientific evidence (Fsck #12)
• Equal justice requires a fat bank account (CBS News)
• White-on-black homicides are routinely justified (NY Times)
• The Misplaced Arguments on BLM (The Economist)
• A thought-provoking piece on violent criminals (Slate)
• Apple’s iOS 11 may protect you from unreasonable searches (The Verge)
• CALIFORNIA: Alameda County Sheriff RTs a Nazi press conference (East Bay Express)
• CALIFORNIA: CA police killed 157 in 2016, a third in LA County (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Orange County judge sanctions the DA for corruption (OC Weekly)
• CALIFORNIA: Orange County considers appeal of $2.25M rape-by-cop verdict (Reason)
• FLORIDA: 3 ex-prison guards in the KKK convicted of conspiring to kill black inmate (Washington Post)
• GEORGIA: Judge suspended for Charlottesville remarks (NY Daily News)
• MARYLAND: Debtors prisons are apparently a thing? (Baltimore Sun)
• MARYLAND: Potential prison guards scared away by polygraphs (Washington Post)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Springfield cop gives Charlottesville thoughts (Mass Live)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Northeastern University police think all black people look alike… (Boston Globe)
  • …of course it’s caught on video (Facebook)
• MINNESOTA: Minneapolis cop watched security guard beat a handcuffed man (MPR News)
• NEW YORK: 100 NYPD officers support Colin Kaeparnick (Twitter)
• NEW YORK: The NYC SBA announces “blue racism” (Twitter)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Man leaves his kids with babysitter, charged with child abuse (ABC 11)
• OHIO: Dashcam exposes Euclid police as liars (AP)
  • Last week’s episode on this Euclid case (Fsck #22)
• TENNESSEE: No judge? No defense lawyer? No problem! (ProPublica)
• TEXAS: Police officer pitches death penalty for monument defacing (Raw Story)
• WASHINGTON: Jail deputy Christopher North fired for ejaculating on a detained woman (Oregon Live)
• CANADA: Ottawa police show the danger of Big Data Policing (Metro News)
• The Fourth Amendment (LII)
• NC’s riot statutes (NC General Assembly)
• Illinois v. Gates (Oyez)
• In re Winship (Oyez)
• Victor v. Nebraska (Oyez)

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Charlottesville deals with terrorists. Prosecutors let an 11-minute roadside rape in Texas go unpunished. New Jersey police terrorize a pizzeria. And in our #Law140 segment we give you an overview of our bail system and how it works.

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Show Notes:

• Terrorists bomb a mosque (MPR News)
• Nazi terrorist kills a woman at White Right rally (Daily Progress)
• Jay Nordlinger misses the boat IMO (National Review Online)
• But the Nazis loved Trump’s “speech” (Twitter)
• Man fires lawyer, inadvertently confesses crime to judge (1st Circuit)
• Innocence doesn’t matter when you’re broke (The Atlantic)
• ALASKA: Charges dropped against DeVarge Walker (NBC 11)
  • Our episode with Walker’s case (Fsck #19)
• CALIFORNIA: LAPD will get tactical drones. Brilliant. (KQED)
• CALIFORNIA: Cop points gun at unarmed passenger for 9 minutes (Washington Post)
• CALIFORNIA: White drug dealers with badges get probation (Bakersfield Californian)
• CONNECTICUT: Will Reginald Betts get to be a lawyer? (AP)
• DC: Killer cop Brian Trainer will not face charges (Twitter)
• FLORIDA: Miami cop steals phone, makes it disappear (PINAC)
• INDIANA: Police caught napping on the job… in a graveyard (KHOU 11)
• MARYLAND: Long-form piece on the state’s bodycam laws (The Intercept)
• NEW JERSEY: Police terrorize pizzeria (MyCentralJersey)
  • Our podcast on Raleigh officers doing the same thing (Fsck #2)
• NEW YORK: Profile on Buffalo PD *not* killing people (CNN)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Durham protestor cleared of disruption charges (WRAL)
• NORTH CAROLINA: 5-day exposé on jail f*ckery (News & Observer)
• OHIO: Woman arrested for recording police beating (Cleveland.com)
• OKLAHOMA: Killer cop Shelby Fields is back with a badge (Chicago Tribune)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: 6 deputies disciplined for sex on the job (WBTV 3)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Corruption in Columbia (Post & Courier)
• TEXAS: Roadside rape by HCSO goes unpunished (Fox 10)
• The Fifth Amendment (LII)
• The Eighth Amendment (LII)
• Federal pre-trial detention (LII)
• US v Salerno (Oyez)
• The DOJ “Dear Colleague” letter on bail (US DOJ)

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The game of musical chairs in the White House continues, while the Attorney General wastes DOJ time (and your money) trying to get back into the Papaya POTUS’s good graces. Plus a truly bizarre story out of Onslow County NC, state-sanctioned puppycide in Michigan, and Baltimore Police again striving to prove that The Wire was a documentary. Then in our #Law140 segment we talk about the role of grand juries and what that may mean for Bob Mueller’s probe of the Parody President and his campaign’s collaboration with the Soviets.

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Show Notes:

• Anthony Scary-Moocher has already been fired (CNN)
• The Yapping Yam just keeps on lying… (CNN)
• …and is a terribly negotiator to boot (Washington Post)
• Attorney General Beauregard rattles his saber on leakers (Time)
• …Plus tells citizens in four cities to drop dead (AP)
• …And will be wasting your money to investigate non-existent reverse discrimination (NY Times)
• Second Circuit encourages false imprisonment of US citizens (NPR)
• A Michigan judge rules dogs are mere “contraband” to be exterminated (Reason)
  • The Puppycide Precedent he cites (Twitter)
• CBP deliberately blocked Congress from exercising oversight on the Muslim Ban (Daily Beast)
• Our bail system destroys lives (Mic.com)
• Teens sentenced to LWOP get very different sentences (AP)
• Nearly 1-in-4 fired cops is rehired by the same department (Washington Post)
• ALABAMA: Inmates use peanut butter to escape prison (AL.com)
• ARIZONA: Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces jail time (azcentral.com)
• CALIFORNIA: “Marijuana moms” get a glowing media profile (Today)
  • My $0.02 on the “marijuana moms” story (Twitter)
• CALIFORNIA: All charges dismissed against Tatyana Hargrove (Mic.com)
  • Our episode with Tatyana’s arrest (Fsck #16)
• Tatyana’s story is precisely what that Proctor & Gamble ad was getting at (The Root)
• INDIANA: Drug-maker sends sales people to pitch judges (NPR)
• KENTUCKY: A killer cop wants his job back (WDRB)
• LOUISIANA: A police chief thought this racist meme was the funniest damn thing (HuffPost)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore PD caught planting evidence AGAIN (CBS News)
  • This seems to be a habit for the Baltimore PD (Fsck #17)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore County cop executes a shoplifter because he can (Fox 5)
• MARYLAND: An immigrant was offered a college scholarship. So ICE deported him. (Washington Post))
• MASSACHUSETTS: Former DA writes about how to reform the system (WBUR)
• MINNESOTA: White folks start to care about police reform (Washington Post)
• MISSOURI: The NAACP issues a travel advisory for the whole state (Sacramento Bee)
• NEW MEXICO: Private prison tries to extort state (Sante Fe New Mexican)
• NEW YORK: All black men look alike to the NYPD, so they just picked one to beat (NY Daily News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Did the Sheriff cover-up a rape by a pedophile deputy? (Raw Story)
  • Supposedly they had a “dating relationship” despite the 30-year age difference (WITN)
  • The Sheriff’s Facebook page is entertaining at least (Facebook)
• NORTH CAROLINA: The NCGOP Chairman Robin Hayes condemns the Bill of Rights (Durham Herald-Sun)
• OREGON: Portland Lieutenant says police brutality is cool (Portland Mercury)
• TENNESSEE: Jailers torture 18-year-old, tase him 40 times (UK Metro)
• TEXAS: “Show Me Your Papers” law emboldens criminals (The Intercept)
• TEXAS: Pedophile cop gets a deferral agreement (Houston Chronicle)
• The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution (Wikipedia)
• The US Attorneys’ Manual on Grand Juries (US DOJ)
• US v. Dionisio (Oyez)
• US v. Williams (Oyez)
• Kaley v. US (Oyez)
• Great summary by Ken White on how grand juries work (Popehat)