What s next for the other former Minneapolis cops charged in George Floyd s death mitchellrepublic.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mitchellrepublic.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Since 2014, University of Minnesota Law School professor JaneAnne Murray and her students, through the school’s Clemency Project, have helped win early release for 32 low-level, nonviolent inmates serving disproportionately long sentences.
Murray, who founded the project at the university, served on the steering committee of Clemency Project 2014, a collaboration of defense organizations that recruited and trained lawyers to submit clemency applications under an initiative by then President Barack Obama. Murray focuses now on the clemency or compassionate release cases of people incarcerated in Minnesota’s federal and state prisons, so students (at least before the pandemic) could meet their clients.
Created: April 28, 2021 10:49 PM
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, calls for more police accountability grew louder. State and Congressional lawmakers have questioned qualified immunity as they push for reform.
The author of the latter, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, said in March, “We must fully end the doctrine of qualified immunity which for too long has shielded law enforcement from accountability and denied recourse for the countless families robbed of their loved ones.”
Legislation has also been introduced on the state level to end qualified immunity, including a bill introduced by Rep. John Thompson, DFL-St. Paul. On Wednesday, the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission also addressed the issue after it was raised by Commissioner Ashley Gold.
Debate over police reform continues, calling qualified immunity into question kstp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kstp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.