(Year end Part Four): Kevin Cooper; Death Row. California; New York Times...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I was utterly fascinated by New York Times Op-Ed writer Nicholas Kristof's recent post entitled "My worse columns in 1917 " - 'worse' from the point of view that they were all...
View Article(Year end Part Five); Top criminal justice wins of 1917: Thanks to 'The Root'...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: It is comforting to note that the publication 'The Root' managed to come up with 11 criminal justice victories' in an otherwise bleak 1917 - and three of these stand out because of...
View Article(Year end Part Six): Rajesh and Nupur Talwar: India - a case which occupied...
STORY: "Year ender 2017: Joys and sorrows; judgements that left a mark this year," published by The Deccan Chronicle on December 27, 2018.GIST: "2017 has been a noteworthy year with SC of India and...
View Article(Year end Part Seven): The top 10 legal tech stories of 2017, by Amercian Bar...
STORY: "The top 10 legal tech stories of 2017," by ABA Legal Affairs Writer Jason Tashea, published by The American Bar Association Journal on December 22, 2017.GIST: All ten legal tech stories are...
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Technology series: Part One: Software Is Deciding How Long People Spend in...
STORY: "Software is deciding how long people spend in jail," by Kali Holloway, published by Truthdig on December 24, 2017.GIST: The United States jails more of its citizens, by percentage and in raw...
View ArticleTechnology series: Part two: Do you really believe that a robot can know you...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Several recent articles have predicted that computer technology is on the way to becoming a valuable tool for detecting lies. Take"Will augmented reality make lying obsolete?...
View ArticleTechnology series: Part Three: Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving very...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Crawford tied together the complex relationship between the two harms by citing a 2013 report from LaTanya Sweeney. Sweeney famously noted the algorithmic pattern in search results...
View ArticleTechnology series: Part Four; Forensic statistical tool: New York City moves...
inShareSTORY: "New York City moves to create accountability for algorithms," by Lauren Kirchner, published by ProPublica on December 18, 2017. (Lauren Kirchner is a senior reporting fellow at...
View ArticleBulletin: Davontae Sanford; 23; Michigan: Cleared of 4 murders gets $408,000...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: ".Later that night, police picked up Sanford again and brought him back to the police station. Sanford would later say that when he asked for a lawyer, he was told he was a “dumb...
View ArticleSherman Brown; Roy Watford: Virginia; Exoneration hearings set for Wednesday...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "In Brown's case, the biological evidence at issue was discovered on a microscope slide created in 1969. To be exonerated by the supreme court, Watford and Brown must prove by clear...
View ArticleTechnology series: Part Five: A judge has given the Grand Strand police...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This is a hugely important story about the growing pains caused by the sudden addition of massive amounts of video evidence in police agencies across the USA - (and, no doubt in...
View ArticleClarence Moses-EL; Colorado; A year after he was acquitted following a new...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Moses-EL had been convicted of raping and beating a neighbor in 1987. He went through two trials before a jury determined last year that he was not guilty of first-degree sexual...
View ArticleArthur Greer: Australia:Arthur Greer: West Australia: Counsel Malcolm...
STORY: "Sharon Mason murder: Bid to clear man jailed for murder of Perth teenage girl," by reporter Tony Barrass, published by Perth Now on December 23, 3017.GIST: "Eminent QC Malcolm McCusker...
View ArticleDarrell Jones: Massachusetts: Read and weep. Thirty years of his life wiped...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Jones claimed police tampered with the videotape played in the courtroom, in which a brief segment of the “The Phil Silvers Show,” a 1950s send-up of Army life, suddenly appeared...
View ArticleSherman Brown; Roy Watford; Virginia; Their respective innocence claims have...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Alice T. Armstrong, a senior assistant attorney general, argued against Brown's petition, among other things telling the justices that the DNA testing was not performed by the...
View ArticleRodney Reed: Texas; Judge recommends against new trial..."Defense lawyers...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Shaver’s findings will be sent to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which will have the final say on whether Reed, 50, gets a new trial. Defense lawyer Bryce Benjet said late...
View ArticleAnthony Shore; Larry Swearingen: Texas; The Austin Chronicle reports...
STORY: "Questions Linger for Anthony Shore, Larry Swearingen Shore to be first Texan executed in 2018," by reporter Sarah Marloff, published by The Austin Chronicle on January 12, 2018.GIST:"Houston...
View ArticleTrauma-informed "junk-science."...Bill S-2266... The 'College Fix' attacks a...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Center for Prosecutor Integrity letter to Sen. Amy Klobuchar about “trauma-informed” rape bill by The College Fix on Scribd. The letter quotes U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor,...
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James Kluppelberg: Outdated arson 'science...abusive police behaviour leading...
STORY: "City agrees to pay $9.3 million for wrongful conviction tied to Burge detectives," by reporter Jason Meisner, published by The Chicago Tribune on January 11, 2018.GIST:"Chicago officials have...
View ArticleKevin Keith; Ohio; Murder conviction upheld - in spite of his lawyers...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Keith was scheduled to be executed Sept. 15, 2010, but Gov. Ted Strickland commuted his death sentence to a life sentence less than two weeks prior to that date, citing doubts...
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