AltWeeklies Wire
New Orleans' Death Tollnew
Updated population numbers show the city's homicide rate is even worse than previously thought.
Gambit |
Ariane Wiltse |
03-25-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Head on a Skewernew
Joe Arpaio was so obsessed with getting a hard-charging New Times writer prosecuted that he badgered Andy Thomas into making a fool of himself.
Phoenix New Times |
Paul Rubin |
03-25-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Simple as Brown vs. Blacknew
LAPD chief denies what others see as clear cases of racial violence.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Annette Stark |
03-21-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
No Law, No Hate Crime in South Carolinanew
The circumstances of the January murder of a transgendered teen spotlight a hole in federal hate crime statutes that long-neglected state legislation may fill.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
03-19-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
If DNA Evidence Doesn't Fit in Orange County, Alter It?new
In the wake of a November 2005 OC Weekly article detailing how a 20-year-old Buena Park man faced prison for a robbery/carjacking he didn't commit, prosecutors asked the Orange County Sheriff's Department crime lab to alter key exculpatory evidence.
OC Weekly |
R. Scott Moxley |
03-18-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Life Sentencenew
In Colorado, a criminal record stays with you forever, no matter how small the crime. A new bill aims to change this.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
03-18-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Flight Connectionsnew
Shawn Green is more than an accused drug trafficker on the run.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jeffrey Anderson and Van Smith |
03-18-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
California Prosecutors Asked Crime Lab to Doctor DNA Resultsnew
In a controversial robbery case that sent an innocent 20-year-old California man to prison in 2005, prosecutors told a forensic specialist in a sheriff's crime lab to claim falsely that the man's DNA had been found at the crime scene.
OC Weekly |
R. Scott Moxley |
03-14-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Behind the Bars in Tennesseenew
Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe is at the center of human rights abuses at his facility -- but he doesn't see it that way.
Nashville Scene |
P.J. Tobia |
03-14-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Long Reach of Brian Nicholsnew
And Georgia's deepening death-penalty crisis.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Freeman |
03-14-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Taser Use Leads to Wrongful-Death Lawsuits in Vegasnew
The controversy surrounding the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's use of Tasers is such that its public information office, which just six months ago supplied the media with information meant to contextualize its use of the weapons, has now clammed up.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Damon Hodge |
03-14-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Tasers, crime & justice
Two Years Later, Asa Sullivan's Death Remains a Mysterynew
The San Francisco Police Department doesn't want people to know about Asa B. Sullivan, a case that illustrates how difficult it is to get even basic information about law enforcement, which leaves the public in the dark about a public agency that makes life-and-death decisions.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
G.W. Schulz |
03-12-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Thin Gray Linenew
The 25-year police officers' retirement has gone the way of the golden watch in the corporate world. Deputies now stay on the force up to age 65.
Metro Spirit |
Murfee Faulk |
03-12-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Tennessee Keeps Exonerated Inmate Locked Upnew
Suffering from advanced multiple sclerosis, the 46-year-old Paul House remains on the state's death row nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared "no reasonable juror" would convict him given the evidence now available.
Nashville Scene |
Sarah Kelley |
03-11-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Sloppy Terroristnew
The war on terror on trial in New Haven.
New Haven Advocate |
Betsy Yagla |
03-11-2008 |
Crime & Justice
