criminal justice issues

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/04/us/oklahoma-inmates-release-mass-commutation/index.html

There is a lot of discussion of and interest in crime here and not a little confusion about criminal law so I thought I would put that right for anyone interested. I am an English solicitor with about ten years' criminal practise under my belt (long time ago) mostly small potatoes but with the...

References to this case have popped up here and there on JREF, but I think it warrants a closer look and a dedicated thread. This 18-y-o kid in Texas made a sick joke on Facebook about shooting up a school. Somebody in Canada reported it to the cops in Texas, who arrested him and held him in...

Onetime top Calif. football prospect exonerated after serving 5 years on rape charge What an awful, horrible person, this Wanetta Gibson. I hope she does at least five years in prison as well as has to return every cent that's left. :mad: Also, if he was offered a deal for 18 months if he...

N.C. man no longer faces death after judge invokes 'Racial Justice Act' A couple questions: How widespread is this practice in the United States? I've heard the same thing was done in Texas. Does this partially explain the much higher incarceration rates among blacks compared to whites? What...