It was a quiet morning along Warren Street as a 50-year-old resident pulled his black & silver Toyota into a parking spot at Detroit’s Citizen Bank. Double checking the deposit envelope, he was distracted and didn’t notice two teenagers watching him from the opposite side of the street in the parking lot of the Detroit […]
READ MORENew York City Settles Suit Over Abuses at Rikers Island
New York City has agreed to a settlement in the long-running legal battle over abuses at Rikers Island, the country’s second-largest jail system, federal and city officials said on Monday. The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio committed to a host of far-reaching reforms in the deal, including the appointment of a federal monitor, an […]
READ MOREAssessing the Effect of Crack Sentencing Retroactivity
What difference has it made that the federal sentencing guideline on crack cocaine was retroactively reformed? Depends who you ask. At the Heritage Foundation, Charles Stimson has a piece up right now essentially arguing that it’s important to keep statistics about the effect of the sentencing change. Stimson also writes It is inevitable, though, that […]
READ MOREUnited States v. Rodriquez: Supreme Court on “Serious Drug Offense” under the Armed Career Criminal Act
The Supreme Court today handed down United States v. Rodriquez, a sentencing case involving the interaction between state and federal law for people with prior “serious drug offense” convictions. I’m too slammed to do a writeup, but here’s the link to the opinion. Prof. Berman has a little analysis at the Sentencing Law and Policy […]
READ MOREJudge alleges ‘fraud on the court’ by government attorneys in Dobyns case
Former ATF Agent Beats Federal Government in Court Take a former football player, mix in some motorcycles, add arson, murder, and smuggled guns and you the result is a former ATF agent who goes on to write the best selling book and is countersued by his former employer. Jay “Jaybird” Dobyns, born in Indiana in […]
READ MOREMissouri Governor To Outline Law Enforcement Plans For Decision On Police Shooting
Grand Jury Refuses To Indict White Officer In Shooting Of Black Teenager When Jay Nixon was told the grand jury was about to wrap -up its work, he called Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Contingency plans which had been written months ago were activated. If there were any way to stave off […]
READ MOREForney woman, children accidentally pulled over at gunpoint by police
It’s late one evening in Anytown, USA. Two couples are walking home from a double date that took them to dinner and a movie. One couple is white, the other black. Ahead they see a police car slowly approaching. The visceral reaction of the couples is different. The white couple breathes a sigh of relief. […]
READ MORETwo Arrested for Making Threats Against East Hampton Jewish Center
The East Hampton Village Police Department arrested two Riverhead residents on Thursday on charges of making terrorist threats against the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. East Hampton Village detectives arrested Asli Dincer, 44, and her former husband, Melih Dincer, 31 on Thursday night at John F. Kennedy International Airport, when the two returned to the […]
READ MOREOne Year Later, Assessing Predictions of Disaster From Crack Sentencing Retroactivity
One year ago, I linked to coverage of the claim by Attorney General Mukasey that making federal crack sentencing reforms retroactive would cause “a sudden influx of cri minals from federal prison into your communities that could lead to a surge in new victims with a tragic but predictable result.” Hillary Clinton, it’s worth remembering, […]
READ MOREInternet Tobacco Sale Lawsuit
The AP reports: “A group of cigarette distributors and sellerssued New York Wednesday seeking to overturn a law banning Internet, telephone and mail order tobacco sales.” The case is called Association of Responsible Cigarette Sellers v. New York, and the complaint is here. The commerce clause arguments here piggyback a bit on (but also differs from) last […]
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