The Marshall Project: A mile of terror
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Opening Statement November 1, 2017 |
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Sudden death, and evidently terrorism, return to lower Manhattan. A man drove a pickup truck for a mile down a bike lane in lower Manhattan, near the World Trade Center memorial, killing eight people and wounding at least 13 others in what officials quickly suspected was an act of terrorism. The New York Times Related: The suspect, from Uzbekistan, came to the States legally in 2010; had no serious criminal record. New York Daily News The victims included a group from Argentina celebrating a high school reunion. New York Post More: Trucks have become the ISIS weapon of choice. NPR And: Greenwich Village Halloween parade marched on in wake of nearby attack. NY1
I did it Norway: Why more American prisons are singing a European tune. For four years now state prison officials have been touring prisons overseas to learn about the different ways in which inmates are housed and rehabilitated. In a few jurisdictions those lessons already have been transformed into new policies. But it’s hard to replicate the public attitude in Europe, where prisoners are viewed as future neighbors. Here are updates on reform efforts in five states by TMP’s Maurice Chammah. The Marshall Project “Once you have an independent counsel, you ought to give him a chance to follow the facts.” Several Senate Republicans, including some of the most conservative ones, pledged Tuesday in the wake of the first indictments by special counsel Robert Mueller to support his probe of the Trump team’s ties to Russia. The Washington Post Related: Sam Clovis, the administration’s Agriculture Department nominee, connected to George Papadopoulos, is a “cooperating witness” in the Senate’s Russia probe. Politico More: Get ready for more surprises, and more indictments. USA Today From Vermont, lessons in how to combat the opioid epidemic. Few states have been hit as hard by opioid drug addiction as Vermont but no state has been as creative in combating the epidemic. An holistic approach, based on science and research, emphasizing public health instead of criminal justice, is designed to get as many residents as possible into treatment, and it is working. The state’s overdose death rate isn’t just the lowest in New England it is also below the national average. Vox The murderer who killed in the name of saving life. It’s been 24 years since anti-abortion zealot Michael Frederick Griffin killed Dr. David Gun outside his abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida. It was considered the first targeted killing of an abortion doctor and it resulted in federal legislation that makes it a federal crime to block access to a clinic. Today, an unrepentant Griffin is pushing to be released on parole, to the dismay of his victim’s family and others contending with aftermath of Griffin’s crime. Slate
More on the rise and fall of James Burke, the former police chief of Suffolk County, New York, whose guilty plea earlier this year helped open a window on police and prosecutor corruption on Long Island. VICE Do you have a constitutional right to a stun gun or Taser? A federal judge in Massachusetts is about to decide another big Second Amendment case. The Crime Report The “rent-to-own” industry has it good in Texas, where a rare law allows store operators to sue customers for “theft” when there is a dispute over payments. The Texas Tribune Investors in social impact bonds get good news from Colorado: a return on their investment after chronically homeless residents stay housed and out of jails or hospitals. Colorado Public Radio A Louisiana man said to police: “why don't you just give me a lawyer dog.” The state supreme court says the use of this slang made the request ambiguous; it denied the man’s request to toss out a statement he subsequently made in a case involving a sexual assault on a minor. Reason
How the Justice Department is fighting the opioid war. By Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. USA Today Over-criminalization meets under-education. When the law is so complicated, why shouldn’t ignorance of it be a valid excuse? Cato Institute Trump could pardon Manafort. He shouldn’t. The Constitutional power of the president wasn’t designed to protect people unworthy of mercy. By John Yoo. The New York Times Related: Manafort may also face state and/or local charges that are beyond the president’s pardon power. The New York Times Wait, you mean there are laws that regulate foreign lobbying? The Manafort and Gates indictments are a reminder of how lax has been enforcement of a 1938 federal law. Politico When a community is afraid to dial 911 for help. Chicago spends $4 million a day on its police. And still so many residents have so little trust in the cops in their neighborhood. Chicago Reader
Witness of the Day: Ayana Thomas was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for money laundering and bank fraud; she took money out of her husband’s illegal account. She says she’ll never forget her first day in confinement or how she felt having to leave her children. Her story is part of our “Witnesses” video series. The Marshall Project Solved Mysteries of the Day: Were you wondering about the identities of some of the unknown Trump campaign officials listed in court documents in the George Papadopoulos case? Wonder no more. The Washington Post Quote of the Day: “No United States attorney is supposed to be anybody’s guy,” says Preet Bharara, the former federal prosecutor in New York who was fired earlier this year by President Trump. Politico Addicts of the Day: The opioid epidemic is unfolding on college campuses, too, with students struggling to overcome their addiction and administrators pressing to offer treatment programs. The New York Times Book Excerpt of the Day: In “The Last Sheriff in Texas,” author Jason P. McCollom tells us about the day the “deadliest” lawman in the Lone Star state was gunned down. Texas Monthly Complaint of the Day: Public defenders in Chicago are fed up with Cook County inmates masturbating in front of them during jailhouse meetings. Chicago Sun-Times |
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