All posts tagged "Justice"
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Best Legal Tweets of the Week
Check out our picks for this week.
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Innocent Man Seeks New Trial After Governor Mike Pence Declined Pardon
Should this have come up at the debate?
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Alabama Chief Justice Suspended Over Anti-Gay Marriage Order
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore previously ordered local judges to defy federal guidelines allowing same-sex marriage. But on...
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Driver in Freddie Gray Case Found Not Guilty
Will there ever be justice for Freddie Gray?
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The Power of Justice: A Guilty Verdict for Daniel Holtzclaw
Rape culture and race both played a role.
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The Two Supreme Court Cases We Should All Be Watching
Big decisions in June could have a major impact on the U.S.
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What Kalief Browder’s Tragic Story Tells Us About the Prison System
Kalief Browder, former Rikers inmate, just committed suicide.
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ICYMI: Best of the Week
ICYMI: check out the best of the week from Law Street Media.
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Protests Continue After Freddie Gray’s Death in Baltimore
Baltimore protests are growing in response to Freddie Gray's death in police custody.
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Death Penalty in the United States: Why We Still Have It
The United States is one of only a few remaining countries to use the death penalty. Why do...
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University of Virginia Suspends All Fraternities After Rape Allegations
UVA suspended all fraternities on campus after Rolling Stone reported rape allegations from two years ago.
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The Case of Hannah Graham and the Myth of Stranger Danger
On September 13 2014, 18-year-old University of Virginia student Hannah Graham went missing.
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Woman Gets Six Extra Years in Jail Due to Pregnancy
Last July a young woman named Lacey Weld from Tennessee was sentenced to 12 years in prison...
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Incarceration Figures Drop, But Community Support is Essential to Public Safety
Early last week the Bureau of Justice Statistics revealed that for the first time since 1980 the federal...
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Two More Disturbing Gun Cases Beg the Question When Will We Change?
On Thursday, Don Spirit killed his six grandchildren, aged from three months to 10 years old, and his...
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There Is No Excuse for Child Abuse, Not Even for Adrian Peterson
Right on the heels of the Ray Rice domestic violence incident, NFL star Adrian Peterson was charged...
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The Death Penalty is the Easy Way Out
Justin Ross Harris was indicted on September 4 by a grand jury on eight counts for the murder...
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Military Sexual Assault Remains a Major National Embarrassment
If you have seen the eye-opening documentary 'The Invisible War,' then you know that it raised awareness for...
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Crime of Power: Treating the Problem in Ferguson and Ignoring the Cause
In the aftermath of the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the controversy over the way in which the police...
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New Orleans Police Attempt to Regain Public Trust by Wearing Patrol Cameras
The Department of Justice investigation into the New Orleans Police Department following Hurricane Katrina resulted in sweeping reforms...
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Meriam Ibrahim: Free at Last?
Meriam Ibrahim, the 27-year-old Christian woman who was jailed for apostasy in Sudan and sentenced to death by...
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Five Things That Co-existed with Apartheid
This week the entire world is mourning the passing of one of the greatest individuals of the twentieth...
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China creates judicial protection in a green push
Guiyang has created an eco-court, an eco-procuratorial bureau and an eco-public security branch that is included in all three...
