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California nonprofit pushes states to make jury instructions more broadly available   Image from Shutterstock.com. Since his early days as a lawyer, Wisconsin criminal defense attorney Chad Lanning has been troubled that the state’s jury instructions were not freely available to the legal community or the general public. He has also long thought it was odd that the materials essential to the functioning of the justice system could be copyrighted by the University of Wisconsin. “It just alw...

Originally published on January 18, 2021 4:08 pm Civil liberties advocates are warning that the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol could lead to new police and surveillance powers. If history is a guide, they say, those tools could be used against Blacks and other people of color in the justice system, not the white rioters who stormed Congress. Albert Fox Cahn watched in horror last week as rioters beat and shoved their way into the U.S. Capitol. The civil rights lawyer said the images made him...