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In new article, public defender details racial inequities in Minnesotas felony murder doctrine A Ramsey County public defender and law professor looked at second-degree felony murder convictions sentenced from 2012 through 2018 in Hennepin and Ramsey counties. Author: Heidi Wigdahl Updated: 10:14 PM CST March 7, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS — The most serious charge brought against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering George Floyd, is s...

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Tropical soda apple, described as the weed from hell, has sprouted following Black Summer FriFriday 12 updated ThuThursday 18 FebFebruary 2021 at 5:44am The amount of seed tropical soda apple produces from just one fruit is what makes it such a threat. ( Share Print text only Cancel Farmers along the north coast of New South Wales are at war with a noxious weed that has sprung out of the ground following the 2019 bushfires. Key points: Native to South America, tropical soda apple is a species t...

DENVER — A Pueblo man with multiple convictions for guns and drugs, and who struggles with substance abuse, has been sentenced to three years for another gun crime. Julian Daniel Trujillo was sentenced Wednesday in Denver by Judge Raymond Moore of the U.S. District Court for Colorado. Earlier, Trujillo pleaded guilty to having a gun despite a previous felony conviction. "He needs to stay away from Pueblo (when he is released)," said Jennifer Beck, a public defender representing Trujillo. "He...

Tor.com 10/21, 10/28, 11/11, 11/18/20 While many of Locus‘s reviewers are deeply entrenched in 2021, I’ll be spending this month and the next wrap­ping up everything I can from 2020. The joy of online publication is the ease of getting content quickly, but it means I rarely get to see issues in advance. So please enjoy these last hurrahs of an otherwise insane year, and make sure to keep sto­ries from the end of 2020 in mind when it comes time for award nominations and voting. October’...

Creative Surgery is Italian author Clelia Far­ris‘s debut collection (with translations by Rachel Cordasco and Jennifer Delare), and it’s a great start. The first story, “ A Day to Remember” is an extended meditation on living in a world that feels much smaller when circumscribed by cli­mate change. We follow an artist in a post-flood Italy as she tours her community by boat, barter­ing for what she needs while altering people’s memories to their preferences. They’re disrupted l...

A group of graduates throwing graduation caps in the air Crime by Vanda Carson Premium Content Subscriber only A Pakistani student who has been living in Australia on student and bridging visas for more than eight years without barely finishing a single course has failed in his bid to stay in Australia on a third visa after a tribunal found his main aim was to live in Australia and not to study. Federal Circuit Court Judge Greg Egan last week upheld a ruli...

Samovar, published a duet of stories. “ The Curtain Falls, The Show Must End” by Julie Nováková (translated from Czech by the author) is a historical drama set at the eve of WWII. Two backstage workers in a theater in Prague conjure up ghosts, which proceed to haunt and torment the latest production. That is combined with political pressure around the company’s pro­duction choices and staff, so tensions run high. The director casts about for an exorcist, but the best they can do is a ...

Sabrina Ratté simulates extinct ecosystems with her Floralia series A series of installations, featuring sound design from Andrea-Jane Cornell, that will premiere at the Centre Pompidou as part of Hors Pistes Festival. By utilising a mixture of photography, 3D animation and analog technologies, Canada-born, Paris-based artist Sabrina Ratté investigates the interplay between surroundings and subjectivity. Her practice includes video, animation, installations, sculptures, audio-visual performan...

Sea Change), and even the political-satirical side of Charles Stross ( Dead Lies Dreaming). Climate change, international business/poli­tics, and an alphabet-soup artificial-intelligence/virtual-reality computational-communications infrastructure all contribute to the environment in which Ava Arnette operates. Ava – ex-army, ex-Honolulu police department – works as a security officer for the Kahanamoku Coastal Authority (KCA), monitoring a Waikiki tourist zone rebuilt and reinforced after ...