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Law
fromemptywheel
37 minutes ago

SPLC Wants Todd Blanche to Stop Lying - emptywheel

SPLC has filed motions challenging the case against it, claiming DOJ misapplied the law and relied on biased sources.
SF politics
fromemptywheel
5 days ago

Who's Fooling Whom? How the SPLC Indictment Works - emptywheel

The indictment includes charges of wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy related to SPLC's financial practices.
Law
fromemptywheel
37 minutes ago

SPLC Wants Todd Blanche to Stop Lying - emptywheel

SPLC has filed motions challenging the case against it, claiming DOJ misapplied the law and relied on biased sources.
SF politics
fromemptywheel
5 days ago

Who's Fooling Whom? How the SPLC Indictment Works - emptywheel

The indictment includes charges of wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy related to SPLC's financial practices.
Washington DC
fromAbove the Law
1 day ago

Good Job DOJ, Now The Conspiracy Theorists Have A Point - Above the Law

The DOJ swiftly demanded the National Trust drop its lawsuit after a gunman attempted to attack during the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Portland
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 hours ago

Falsely charged with a crime, no way to fight it: inside Oregon's court crisis

Oregon faces a public defender shortage, causing significant delays and hardships for defendants awaiting legal representation.
#exoneration
New York City
fromwww.amny.com
19 hours ago

I can finally breathe': Man exonerated for 1993 Manhattan murder after spending over 30 years behind bars | amNewYork

Harry Ruiz was exonerated after 30 years for a murder he did not commit due to withheld evidence and witness tampering.
Law
fromGothamist
2 weeks ago

Brooklyn prosecutors see exonerations dip amid NYC and nationwide decline, data show

Kenneth Windley was exonerated after nearly 20 years in prison, highlighting a decline in wrongful conviction exonerations in Brooklyn and nationwide.
New York City
fromwww.amny.com
19 hours ago

I can finally breathe': Man exonerated for 1993 Manhattan murder after spending over 30 years behind bars | amNewYork

Harry Ruiz was exonerated after 30 years for a murder he did not commit due to withheld evidence and witness tampering.
Law
fromGothamist
2 weeks ago

Brooklyn prosecutors see exonerations dip amid NYC and nationwide decline, data show

Kenneth Windley was exonerated after nearly 20 years in prison, highlighting a decline in wrongful conviction exonerations in Brooklyn and nationwide.
US news
fromBoston.com
19 hours ago

Prosecutors say suspect in missing students' killings asked ChatGPT about disposing of a body

The suspect in the USF student killings consulted ChatGPT about disposing of a body and other legal inquiries before their disappearance.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

It's like a slow death': a jailed mother and her daughter on why prison is a sentence for them both

Valentina expressed her emotional struggle, stating, 'I cried a lot. I dreaded going to school.' This highlights the profound impact of her mother's incarceration on her daily life.
Social justice
#murder
Brooklyn
fromAol
3 days ago

Serial killer pleads guilty to deaths of 3 women in Brooklyn senior housing complex

A handyman pleaded guilty to murdering three elderly women he was hired to help in a Brooklyn apartment complex.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago
DC food

Quadruple Amputee Accused of Murdering Someone and Fleeing the Scene by Car And Police Haven't Explained How That's Even Possible

fromBoston.com
1 month ago
US news

Man convicted, sentenced to life in prison 40 years after teenager found dead in Plymouth forest

Brooklyn
fromAol
3 days ago

Serial killer pleads guilty to deaths of 3 women in Brooklyn senior housing complex

A handyman pleaded guilty to murdering three elderly women he was hired to help in a Brooklyn apartment complex.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago
DC food

Quadruple Amputee Accused of Murdering Someone and Fleeing the Scene by Car And Police Haven't Explained How That's Even Possible

fromBoston.com
1 month ago
US news

Man convicted, sentenced to life in prison 40 years after teenager found dead in Plymouth forest

Right-wing politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
4 days ago

Hasan Piker Sparks Fury With NY Times Podcast Praise of Theft and Justifying Murder: Immoral And Dangerous'

Encouraging theft and justifying murder of healthcare CEOs were discussed as responses to systemic violence in the healthcare system.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
5 days ago

Stop using AI as a scapegoat, and do this instead

Leaders use AI to justify layoffs, eroding trust and damaging workplace culture despite employees recognizing the disconnect between rhetoric and reality.
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

American Psychological Association's Actions Speak Louder Than Its Apology

CEMRRAT was established in 1994 after the APA designated ethnic minority education as a priority, with the goal of improving the recruitment and retention of ethnic minorities and addressing systemic barriers to their participation in psychology.
Social justice
#murder-trial
US news
fromBoston.com
3 weeks ago

Mistrial declared after report that Conn. girl killed in 1986 had been placed in used body bag

A mistrial was declared in a murder case due to allegations of evidence contamination involving a body bag used in 1986.
US news
fromBoston.com
3 weeks ago

Mistrial declared after report that Conn. girl killed in 1986 had been placed in used body bag

A mistrial was declared in a murder case due to allegations of evidence contamination involving a body bag used in 1986.
#ai-in-law
fromFuturism
2 days ago
Law

Prestigious Wall Street Law Firm Humiliated When Its AI Use Is Discovered in Court

AI hallucinations in legal filings can lead to significant professional embarrassment and potential sanctions.
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks ago
Law

Atlanta Prosecutor Repeatedly Cites Non-Existent Cases To Avoid Murder Retrial - Above the Law

AI hallucinations in legal work are leading to serious issues, including the citation of nonexistent cases by attorneys.
Law
fromFuturism
2 days ago

Prestigious Wall Street Law Firm Humiliated When Its AI Use Is Discovered in Court

AI hallucinations in legal filings can lead to significant professional embarrassment and potential sanctions.
Law
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks ago

Atlanta Prosecutor Repeatedly Cites Non-Existent Cases To Avoid Murder Retrial - Above the Law

AI hallucinations in legal work are leading to serious issues, including the citation of nonexistent cases by attorneys.
Arts
fromTruthout
1 week ago

Visuals Help Expose the Realities of Mass Incarceration to a Wider Audience

The Warehouse exhibition transforms understanding of mass incarceration through visual storytelling, making complex issues accessible to a wider audience.
California
fromsfist.com
1 week ago

Saturday Links: Man Suspected of Killing Laney College Coach Ruled Incompetent to Stand Trial

Cedric Irving was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial for the murder of Laney College football coach John Beam.
SF parents
fromDefector
1 week ago

The Killing That Won't Let Go | Defector

Grief persists indefinitely, and justice remains elusive for Steve Cornejo, who was shot and killed 21 years ago without the shooter facing charges.
#southern-poverty-law-center
Law
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges

The Southern Poverty Law Center faces federal fraud charges for allegedly misusing funds intended to combat extremism.
Law
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges

The Southern Poverty Law Center faces federal fraud charges for allegedly misusing funds intended to combat extremism.
Boston food
fromBoston.com
2 weeks ago

Man sentenced for Hyde Park killing; victim and defendant were 'life-long close friends'

Isaiah Smith was sentenced to 24 years in prison for fatally shooting his friend Jose Feliz in 2024.
Law
fromAbove the Law
3 days ago

Justice Department's SPLC Indictment Just Got Dumber, Which Seemed Impossible - Above the Law

The DOJ's indictment of the SPLC is based on a flawed understanding of the organization's practices and misapplies legal statutes.
London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The rape case that became one of Britain's greatest miscarriages of justice

A young woman was brutally raped in 2003, leading to a miscarriage of justice for an innocent man who spent 17 years in prison.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Dissociation: Imagination and Error in Criminal Justice

Dissociation is a normal psychological process that aids creativity but can also lead to erroneous beliefs and interpretations in various fields.
#criminal-justice
Law
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Can You "See" Criminal Intent? What Research Reveals

Criminal appearance and perceived remorse significantly influence legal outcomes and sentencing decisions.
SF parents
fromSan Jose Inside
1 month ago

Court Overturns 2017 Conviction of Morgan Hill Teen's Accused Killer

An appeals court overturned Antolin Garcia Torres's 2012 murder conviction in the Sierra LaMar case, barring prosecutors from using certain legal theories in any retrial.
Law
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Can You "See" Criminal Intent? What Research Reveals

Criminal appearance and perceived remorse significantly influence legal outcomes and sentencing decisions.
SF parents
fromSan Jose Inside
1 month ago

Court Overturns 2017 Conviction of Morgan Hill Teen's Accused Killer

An appeals court overturned Antolin Garcia Torres's 2012 murder conviction in the Sierra LaMar case, barring prosecutors from using certain legal theories in any retrial.
Law
fromThe Nation
6 days ago

The Delusion of 'AI Justice'

Artificial intelligence is presented as a solution to the inequities in the justice system, but its effectiveness remains questionable.
NYC parents
fromwww.amny.com
3 weeks ago

Criminal case against man shot by cops during mental health crisis will move forward | amNewYork

A Queens man shot by police during a mental health crisis faces criminal charges despite calls for dismissal from his mother and community members.
Law
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Why False Confessions Are Surprisingly Common

False confessions are more prevalent than believed, leading to severe consequences and misconceptions among legal professionals and the public.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

How Meta's victim-blaming failed to sway jurors in landmark social media addiction trial

Meta's lawyers argued that the mental health problems experienced by KGM were linked to her mother's parenting and her offline social issues, rather than Instagram's influence.
Mental health
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

Lawyer Tells Attorneys For Missing Child That They're 'Gonna Burn In Hell' - Above the Law

A lawyer for Camp Mystic made a controversial remark during a hearing related to a tragic flood that killed 27 people.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

What the Epstein case teaches us about grooming podcast

People talk about Jeffrey Epstein as though he's special or as though he's mysterious in some way. That takes away from the truth of it, which is that there are lots of people like him.
Books
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Why False Accusations Are So Disturbing

False accusations are uniquely disturbing because they violate the just-world hypothesis, undermining our belief that fairness exists and people deserve their outcomes.
Philosophy
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

You Can't Salvage A Bad Judge By Calling Them Postmodern - Above the Law

Postmodern analysis offers useful concepts for understanding contemporary disenchantment with traditional meaning systems, exemplified by judicial figures like Lawrence VanDyke who adopt unconventional approaches to legal writing.
Law
fromPoynter
3 weeks ago

Like journalists, prosecutors shaped a distorted view of crime. They can help fix it, too. - Poynter

Prosecutors and journalists both contribute to misleading public perceptions of crime, but prosecutors possess crucial data to tell a more accurate story.
#restorative-justice
US politics
fromAdvocate.com
1 month ago

The Epstein files and the danger of transparency without accountability

Releasing Epstein files without prosecuting exposed individuals and institutions fails victims, normalizes abuse, and emboldens perpetrators and potential abusers.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

"The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox" Gets Psychology Right

"Does truth actually exist if no one believes it?" The new Hulu mini-series, "The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox," has everyone wondering how an innocent college student could be convicted for a crime when the evidence pointed to another person. Research on legal psychology, specifically on a 20-year old theory known as the phenomenology of innocence, holds some of the answers.
Television
Privacy technologies
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away

UK police facial recognition software arrested an innocent man after misidentifying him as a burglary suspect, revealing significant racial bias in the algorithm's accuracy rates.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Drive-by murder accused was not at scene, jury told

Michelle Sadio, 44, died at the scene and two others were injured when shots were fired from a passing Kia as a crowd of mourners stood outside the River of Life Pentecostal Church following a wake in December 2024. On Monday, Tahjin Sommersall,19, told the court he had never even seen the car used in the shooting and had been in Wembley when the attack happened.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Conspiracy theorists feed on distrust in institutions the Epstein files will see them emboldened | Brigid Delaney

Not so long ago, if you said there was a shadowy cabal of elites who were involved in the sex trafficking of young women and girls and that some of the most famous people in the world were allegedly involved, then you would have been dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. On a certain level, it feels psychologically safe to other people who have conspiracy theories Jon Ronson even wrote a book called Them about extremists and conspiracy theorists.
World news
Women
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Psychology says the true crime audience is overwhelmingly women not because women are morbid but because women are the primary targets of the crimes being described - and learning the patterns isn't entertainment, it's threat intelligence dressed up as a podcast - Silicon Canals

Women's high consumption of true crime content represents threat assessment and safety education rather than morbid entertainment preference.
US news
fromFuturism
1 month ago

AI Mistake Throws Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Nearly Six Months

An innocent Tennessee grandmother was arrested and jailed for nearly six months after AI facial recognition misidentified her as a bank fraud suspect in North Dakota, with police failing to verify the algorithm's match before pursuing charges.
US politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

The Betrayal of a Friend's False Testimony

A man who gave false testimony as a teenager, coerced by police, now seeks redemption while three wrongfully imprisoned friends fight to overturn their convictions decades later.
Law
fromABA Journal
1 month ago

Drug convictions bar lawyer from bench but not from practicing law

Felony drug convictions prevent lawyer from becoming a judge but allow him to continue practicing law in Montana.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

The Laws Of Unintended Consequences - Above the Law

California's new law mandates certification for alternative dispute resolution professionals to ensure ethical standards following the Tom Girardi scandal.
UK news
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Parents charged with murder of baby boy

Two parents in North Finchley were charged with murder and causing or allowing their three-month-old's death after the infant sustained significant injuries and later died.
fromThe Washington Post
1 month ago

He died a convicted murderer. Can a DNA test clear his name?

Every state now has a legal avenue where people can request DNA testing of evidence after being convicted. But in many cases, it's not clear if those statutes apply once convicts have died, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at Duke University.
US news
World news
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Opinion: Disqualified but not forgotten

An athlete was disqualified for displaying portraits of Ukrainians killed in the war, as the IOC ruled the helmet violated rules against political expression.
SF parents
fromwww.ocregister.com
1 month ago

Lookout convicted for notorious California honor roll murder' says he didn't believe killing would actually happen

A man convicted as a lookout in a 1992 honor roll student murder seeks to overturn his conviction, arguing he believed the killing plan was fantasy rather than a genuine plot.
fromBoston.com
2 months ago

Former Mass. state senator receives more prison time for fraud

During an investigation into fraudulent unemployment assistance, federal law enforcement asked Tran about a false letter he gave to unemployment agency officials in an attempt to have his benefits reinstated after they were temporarily suspended, said prosecutors.
US politics
Law
fromABA Journal
1 month ago

Fake lawyer who used real bar number to practice law pleads guilty

A man in Las Vegas pleaded guilty to impersonating a lawyer using another attorney's bar number.
Law
fromGothamist
1 month ago

NY prosecutor who hid evidence is eying a return to law. Professors want him disbarred.

Prosecutor Glenn Kurtzrock's misconduct led to his resignation, wrongful imprisonment, and ongoing efforts to block his return to practicing law.
US news
fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

Law Professor Arrested On 50 Counts In Child Sexual Abuse Materials Case - Above the Law

A Barry University law professor, Glen‑Peter Ahlers, was arrested on 50 counts of unlawful possession of materials depicting the sexual performance of a child and held on $100,000 bond.
Law
from48 hills
1 month ago

Lurie wants to be tough on crime-but won't pay for the impacts on defendants - 48 hills

Increased arrests and prosecutions in San Francisco are costly, leading to understaffed public defense and potential legal ethics violations.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

What Does It Even Mean to Be 'In the Epstein Files'?

The health influencer Peter Attia had to resign from a protein-bar company after emails showed him participating in crude banter with Epstein. CBS News, where Attia was recently hired as a contributor, pulled a 60 Minutes segment featuring him. Brad Karp, who in one email to Epstein gushed, "You're amazing," is stepping down as chair of the law firm Paul Weiss.
US news
Law
fromBoston.com
1 month ago

Chelsea man released decades after murder conviction won't be retried, prosecutors say

Suffolk County prosecutors dropped charges against Thomas Rosa Jr. after 34 years in prison, citing new DNA evidence, lost evidence, and changes in case law that dismantled their case against him.
US news
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

The Betrayal of a Friend's False Testimony

A teenager's coerced confession during police interrogation led to three friends being imprisoned for murder, creating lifelong guilt he attempts to address through legal proceedings decades later.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

AI Hallucinations And Judicial Derangements - Above the Law

AI adoption in legal practice faces credibility challenges when misused, while judicial conduct standards remain inconsistent despite peer intervention attempts.
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Lawyer Convicted Of Systematic Sexual Abuse Of Children - Above the Law

Bishop was found guilty on 24 counts of committing lewd acts on three minor victims, all described in court documents as victims under the age of 14. The span of these offenses covers multiple years. Evidence admitted at trial showed that Bishop possessed more than 600 images of child sexual abuse material depicting two of the minor victims.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

The Human Cost Of Our Broken Justice System - Above the Law

Drawing from years in public defense and her work co-founding Partners for Justice, she explains why the criminal legal system often punishes instability rather than crime - and how policy choices, not individual morality, frequently determine who enters the system.
Law
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