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+15 +3New "bombshell" motion in "Making a Murderer" case points finger at someone else Steven Avery knew
A witness has emerged who claims he saw two people moving the victim's car, but this info had been buried
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+17 +3Former TV personality Rudy Kalis and other Nashville notables fight for death row inmate
Nashville's first Muslim council member joins a rabbi, a Democratic fundraiser and the chair of the state House GOP Caucus in advocating for Pervis Payne
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+15 +2Secret misconduct records of 83,000 New York cops were made public over the objection of police unions
Access to the records, one expert said, could help squash the "wandering-officer phenomenon."
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+17 +3Man sues Hertz over receipt that cleared him of murder
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who spent nearly five years in custody is suing a car rental company for failing to produce in a timely manner a receipt that would have proved his innocence
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+15 +1For Prosecutors, Trump’s Clemency Decisions Were a ‘Kick in the Teeth’
Commutations in high-profile Medicare fraud cases have elicited anger among those who spent years pursuing complex prosecutions.
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+23 +2Parler videos of Capitol attack assembled into timeline
Over 500 videos taken as rioters stormed the Capitol building have been arranged in chronological order and can be scrolled through by users. ProPublica published the interactive timeline using videos sourced from Parler, the social network favoured by supporters of the president, which was also gathering users’ GPS data.
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+11 +2Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails before their day in court
The U.S. government collects data on who’s dying in which jails around the country – but won’t let anyone see it. So, Reuters conducted its own tally.
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+4 +1What We Know About the Allegations of Forced Hysterectomies at an ICE Facility in Georgia
Whistleblower allegations of forced hysterectomies leave troubling questions and reveal a system ripe for abuse
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+3 +1She Was Sued Over Rent She Didn’t Owe. It Took Seven Court Dates to Prove She Was Right.
In one of the country’s richest cities, the public housing authority aggressively sued its residents, filing complaints for amounts as little as $5. Some residents were sued over the authority’s own mistakes.
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+24 +7This may be America's first known wrongful arrest involving facial recognition
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed an administrative complaint with Detroit's police department over what the advocacy organization claims is the country's first known wrongful arrest involving facial-recognition technology.
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+14 +1Controversial psychology tests are often still used in US courts
A third of psychological tests used in US court proceedings aren’t generally accepted by experts in the field, a study has found
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+18 +8Authorities move L.A. attorney Michael Avenatti to New York ahead of trial
Federal authorities moved Los Angeles attorney Michael Avenatti to New York on Friday ahead of a trial later this month on charges that he tried to extort more than $20 million from sports giant Nike, his attorney said.
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+4 +1'Making a Murderer' Subject Brendan Dassey Is Denied Clemency
Brenda Dassey, subject of "Making a Murderer," has served 13 years of a life sentence following conviction for aiding in the murder of Teresa Halbach
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+20 +2I was a juror in Roger Stone’s trial. I am proud of how we came to our decision.
Our legal system affords a fair and open process for determining the truth.
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+20 +5Case of Australian prisoner sentenced and jailed in secret prompts calls to reconsider law reform
The fluke public discovery of a man imprisoned in secret has prompted a call to revisit reform of secrecy law, almost 10 years since the last major inquiry occurred.
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+24 +5Cloudflare Explains What It Takes To Slay A Patent Troll
A couple years back we wrote about the patent trolling operation Blackbird Technologies, which was a law firm that pretended it wasn't a law firm, and seemed to focus on buying up patents to shake down companies for cash. It had threatened many...
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+14 +3J&J Hit With $8 Billion Jury Award Over Antipsychotic Drug
A Philadelphia jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $8 billion in damages to a man who said his use of J&J’s antipsychotic Risperdal caused enlarged breasts.
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+4 +1An Epidemic of Disbelief - What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them
“There is no money better spent than the Justice Department spends here, dollar for dollar,” Tim McGinty said. “I don’t think there will ever be another time in history when so many criminals can be arrested so easily, so quickly, so inexpensively, and with such certainty.”
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+13 +4Manslaughter charge dropped against woman whose foetus died in Alabama shooting
A grand jury had ruled Marshae Jones intentionally caused the caused the shooting death of her foetus by initiating a fight. But after a public outcry, prosecutors have dropped the charge.
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+3 +1How judges added to the grim toll of opioids
In case after case, U.S. judges sealed evidence about the risks as the body count mounted. And as a Reuters analysis found, it’s only one of many big product-liability cases in which judges have countenanced a lethal and often unlawful secrecy.
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