Durbin, Lee Introduce Bipartisan Inspector General Access Act
The bill is supported by a broad coalition of advocates from across the political spectrum, including American Civil Liberties Union, American Conservative Union, Americans for Prosperity, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Demand Progress, Due Process Institute, FreedomWorks, Government Accountability Project, Government Information Watch, Innocence Project, Justice Action Network, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Taxpayers Union, Open the Government, Protect Democracy, Project on Government Oversight (POGO), Public Citizen, R Street Institute, Right on Crime, and The Sentencing Project.
State Rep. Sharon Har faces drunken driving penalties she helped write
Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)
Mar. 3 State Rep.
Sharon Har certainly knew the penalties and consequences of drinking and driving when she was arrested the night of
Feb. 22 after
Honolulu police found her alone in her 2019 Mercedes-Benz, pointed in the head-on direction of one-way traffic traveling on busy
South Beretania Street at
In March 2007 14 years ago Har survived a horrendous crash on
Fort Barrette Road that totaled her Mercedes when a 23-year-old driver with two previous drunken driving cases slammed into her. The other driver was not allowed to be driving and faced a third drunken driving case for the crash.
Baltimore, MD and St. Louis, MO, have a lot in common. Both cities suffer from declining populations and high crime rates. In recent years, the predominantly Black population in each city has engaged in collective action opposing police violence. In recent weeks, officials in both cities voted unanimously to spare their respective residents from further invasions on their privacy and essential liberties by a panoptic aerial surveillance system designed to protect soldiers on the battlefield, not resident s rights and public safety.
Baltimore’s Unanimous Vote to Terminate
From April to October of 2020, Baltimore residents were subjected to a panopticon-like system of surveillance facilitated by a partnership between the Baltimore Police Department and a privately-funded Ohio company called Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS). During that period, for at least 40 hours a week, PSS flew surveillance aircraft over 32 square miles of the city, enabling police to identify specific
California nonprofit pushes states to make jury instructions more broadly available
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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 always seemed wrong on the most basic level,” Lanning says.
As Lanning rose to leadership in the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in recent years, he renewed the group’s efforts to raise concerns about the state’s handling of jury instructions.
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