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Bill Moyers on Justice
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Moyers was honored as TCR’s 2018 “Justice Media Trailblazer.” Watch the video of his remarks at the Feb 15, 2018 John Jay College dinner here.
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Plaintiffs in the long-delayed lawsuit in federal court against two dozen organizers of the August, 2017 far-right march in Charlottesville, N.C., are accusing the collection of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Klan sympathizers and other adherents of extremist ideology of plotting to foment the violence that left at least 19 people injured and one woman dead.
The pretrial process in U.S. courts often sets up defendants to fail. The results of a Philadelphia pilot project suggest that hiring paraprofessionals to furnish defenders with more individualized information about clients could make a big difference, according to an Indiana Law Journal paper.
Experts say new data confirm fears that the latest gun violence surge has killed more children and teens than in recent years. Some cities getting hit the hardest are New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia.
Two pro-Trump rally organizers who say they helped extensively plan election protests around the country — most notably, the storming of the Capitol on January 6 — are now coming forward to share that they regularly met with GOP representatives or their top staff in the weeks leading up to the riots in Washington D.C in an exclusive report from Rolling Stone.
An attack directly after a natural disaster could create a domino effect leading to a loss of electrical power, water, and disruption of telecommunications and other infrastructure, according to Pew Stateline.
Police Chief Louis Dekmar, who has run the LaGrange, Ga., Police Department for 26 years, is training his officers to shoot for the legs, pelvis or abdomen in situations where they think it could stop a deadly threat without killing the source of that threat.
Colombia’s most-wanted drug lord, Dairo Antonio Úsuga, widely known by his alias, Otoniel, and the alleged leader of the notorious drug-trafficking group Clan del Golfo, or Gulf Clan, which dominates major cocaine-smuggling routes in the country’s north, has been captured by armed forces in his jungle hideout and faces extradition to the United States.
Desperate for work and fleeing poverty and violence, a caravan of nearly 4,000 migrants recently decided to march out of the southern city of Tapachula after waiting for asylum applications to be processed for as long as a year
While California’s cannabis market is booming nearly five years after voters legalized recreational weed, the vast majority of pot sales are still underground, with the state’s illegal market approaching $8 billion annually.
The recent accidental fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin has triggered questions about why real guns are ever used on movie sets when computers can create gunshots in post-production.
While the decision could expose Steve Bannon to criminal prosecution, the final decision remains in the hands of the attorney general and the Department of Justice.
Despite a 2019 law intended to speed up needed disclosures of officer credibility, officer history remains inscrutable and those flagged for misconduct continue to jeopardize cases.
Mohamed Noor, who fatally shot an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape happening behind her home, has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison — the most the judge could impose but less than half the 12½ years he was sentenced to for his murder conviction that was overturned last month.
Jerome Boykin and Rogelio Mancera met on a Facebook specialty sneaker group and started trading guns for marijuana about a year ago to traffic guns supplied by a retiree who’d traveled the country to buy weapons at gun shows.
Lyft has pledged to improve its safety practices over the years, noting the issue is a work in progress and that the overwhelming majority of rides ended without incident.
Moyers was honored as TCR’s 2018 “Justice Media Trailblazer.” Watch the video of his remarks at the Feb 15, 2018 John Jay College dinner here.