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Injustice Watch's coverage of bail hearings, [7] pre-trial detention, [8] and prosecutorial discretion [9] [10] have received attention from legal scholars. [11] In 2019, the organization announced the Plain View Project, a database documenting the use of racist language online by police officers, [12] [13] [14] which has been used as evidence for racial bias in American policing [15] and was ...
Rob Warden is a Chicago legal affairs journalist and co-founder of three organizations dedicated to exonerating the innocent and reforming criminal justice: the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, the National Registry of Exonerations at the University of California-Irvine, and Injustice Watch, a non-partisan, not-for-profit, journalism ...
CHICAGO — The family of an inmate brutalized inside Cook County Jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Office.Attorneys representing the family of Johnny Hendrix, beaten ...
A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their mansion in 2020. Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a ...
In 2008, she moderated a panel hosted by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy regarding the role of judges in plea bargains. [10] She also spoke on the American Constitution Society's 2014-2015 Supreme Court Review Panel. [11] Much of Jones' career has been focused on advocating for bail reform. [2]
However the Richard Glossip case comes out, Wednesday’s proceeding offered a chilling reminder that Justices Thomas and Alito want to undo our constitutional tradition of protecting those who ...
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014) is a memoir by American attorney Bryan Stevenson that documents his career defending disadvantaged clients. The book, focusing on injustices in the United States judicial system, alternates chapters between documenting Stevenson's efforts to overturn the wrongful conviction of Walter McMillian and his work on other cases, including children ...
Gallagher recounted a story about the time Evans faced a stern judge who limited closing arguments to 10 minutes. Evans told the jury he was going to talk fast due to the time limit, saying: “So ...