New Yorkers following the Manhattan district attorney’s race may have been introduced to a new term these last few months: the trial penalty. At two candidate forums, each DA hopeful has confirmed he or she would seek to remove this critical flaw of the criminal justice system. The trouble is, few explained why, and even fewer have released detailed plans for how.
For thousands of Wisconsin defendants accused of crimes, they need to put up cash to get out of jail.
When defendants â even ones facing serious charges with massive bail in excess of hundreds of thousands of dollars â have money or community support, getting out from behind bars can take just days or weeks.
But for those facing bail bonds of only a couple hundred dollars who donât have support or deep bank accounts, they can languish in jail for months, sometimes taking deals that donât serve them well in the long term simply because they want to end the court process, because they want to stop waiting, to get back home or go to prison quicker, to get out.
Virginia Bans LGBTQ+ Panic Defense for Murder, Manslaughter April 01 2021 8:29 PM EDT
Virginia has become the 12th U.S. state with a law against the LGBTQ+ “panic” defense in criminal trials.
Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill into law Wednesday banning the use of the defense in trials for murder or voluntary manslaughter, the Bloomberg Law news service reports. Such defenses have been used in court for years, although more rarely recently, in efforts to justify crimes against LGBTQ+ people, the argument being that the revelation of a victim’s identity or a sexual advance from the victim drove the defendant to violence.
A Utah man convicted of gang-related robberies could be released from prison 40 years early
Kepa Maumau was supposed to spend 55 years in prison, but a new law allowed a federal judge to release him now.
(Photo courtesy of Julia Maumau) Kepa Maumau poses in an undated photo. Maumau will be released from federal prison more than four decades earlier than expected, after a judge reviewed his sentence as part of sweeping criminal justice reform legislation called the First Step Act was enacted in 2018.
| April 1, 2021, 8:45 p.m.
It’s been nearly a year since a federal judge ruled that Kepa Maumau should be released from prison four decades earlier than anyone expected.
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