Tag: prosecutors
Why “Drug-Induced Homicide” Doesn’t Have to be Prosecuted
Over the past five years, five more states have passed drug-induced homicide (DIH) statutes, ...
Is the “Progressive Prosecutor” Movement on Its Last Legs?
Once upon a time, Milwaukee elected Frank Zeidler, the last socialist mayor of a ...
“No Evidence” Higher Incarceration Rates Reduce Fears of Crime
A population that perceives itself at the top of the pile soon becomes fearful, ...
FL State Attorney Launches Pilot to Stop “Traumatic” Misdemeanor Arrests
Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit has just implemented its first-ever Adult Civil Citation program—a 90-day ...
Tucson’s Top Prosecutor Pulls Back From No-Minor-Drug-Charges Policy
In 2016, Barbara LaWall, then the elected prosecutor of Pima County (Tucson), published an ...
Baltimore Prosecutors Have Been Inflating Charges for Black Defendants
Black residents are greatly overrepresented in arrests and court cases in the city of ...
Oklahoma Death Penalty Case Flags Inadequate Defense Funding
Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin did not want to release the dashcam video of ...
Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing Has Profound Limitations
Following the 2018 passage of AB 2942, California’s first-in-the-nation “prosecutor-initiated resentencing” law, Hillary Blout ...
Prosecutors Excluded Jurors for Being Black, NC Supreme Court Finds
Juries in the United States are not just 12 people selected at random. Instead, ...
Arizona May Enact 35-Year Mandatory Minimum for “Drug Trafficking Homicide” of Kids
A kid dying of an opioid-involved overdose is a tragedy. Thankfully, it is comparatively ...
