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It Was a Member of the Boogaloo Bois That Opened Fire on the Minneapolis Police Precinct

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|Date: October 24, 2020
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It Was a Member of the Boogaloo Bois That Opened Fire on the Minneapolis Police Precinct

By David M. Greenwald Following the death of George Floyd, Minneapolis was the epicenter of mass protests ...

By David M. Greenwald Following the death of George Floyd, Minneapolis was the epicenter of mass protests, arson, rioting and looting. While this unrest and damage to property was in part in response ...

October 24, 2020
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California Prosecutors Seek to Retry Peterson for Death Penalty

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|Date: October 24, 2020
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California Prosecutors Seek to Retry Peterson for Death Penalty

By Layla Mustafa MODESTO – Convicted murderer Scott Peterson returned to Stanislaus County Friday, as Cal ...

By Layla Mustafa MODESTO – Convicted murderer Scott Peterson returned to Stanislaus County Friday, as Californian prosecutors announced plans to retry Peterson for the death penalty. Peterson—located ...

October 24, 2020
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ACLU, NLG & Black Lives Matter Letter Calls for Investigation of LA Sheriff’s Department

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|Date: October 24, 2020
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ACLU, NLG & Black Lives Matter Letter Calls for Investigation of LA Sheriff’s Department

By Phoebe Glick LOS ANGELES — Citing numerous abuses by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the ACLU Fo ...

By Phoebe Glick LOS ANGELES — Citing numerous abuses by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California called on the Attorney General to investigate the LASD late thi ...

October 24, 2020
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‘Stop AAPI Hate’ Singles Out Trump, Republicans for Anti-Asian Discrimination and Attacks

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|Date: October 24, 2020
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‘Stop AAPI Hate’ Singles Out Trump, Republicans for Anti-Asian Discrimination and Attacks

By Lauren Smith LOS ANGELES – “Stop AAPI Hate,” a national coalition created to address anti-Asian disc ...

By Lauren Smith LOS ANGELES – “Stop AAPI Hate,” a national coalition created to address anti-Asian discrimination amid the pandemic, held a press briefing Thursday to release a report “on how the ri ...

October 24, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Amy Coney Barrett’s Record on Criminal Justice Is ‘Deeply Troubling,’ Reform Advocates Say

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|Date: October 23, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Amy Coney Barrett’s Record on Criminal Justice Is ‘Deeply Troubling,’ Reform Advocates Say

In the midst of a national debate about changing the criminal legal system, Barrett is set to take a life ...

In the midst of a national debate about changing the criminal legal system, Barrett is set to take a lifetime seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Advocates see her addition as a potential setback to creat ...

October 23, 2020
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53 Black Former McDonald’s Owners Sue, Charge Corporate Discrimination

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|Date: October 23, 2020
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53 Black Former McDonald’s Owners Sue, Charge Corporate Discrimination

By Ariel Abdallah and Dylan Ferguson Fifty-three Black McDonald’s franchisees have filed a major civil r ...

By Ariel Abdallah and Dylan Ferguson Fifty-three Black McDonald’s franchisees have filed a major civil rights lawsuit against McDonald’s, charging they have been the victims of the discriminatory nat ...

October 23, 2020
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Ibram Kendi Asks Fundamental Question about Disproportionate Black Deaths to COVID, Focusing Research on Anti-Racism

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|Date: October 22, 2020
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Ibram Kendi Asks Fundamental Question about Disproportionate Black Deaths to COVID, Focusing Research on Anti-Racism

By Linh Nguyen One is either a racist or an anti-racist, Professor Ibram Kendi argued this week at a talk ...

By Linh Nguyen One is either a racist or an anti-racist, Professor Ibram Kendi argued this week at a talk at Harvard University. There is no middle ground. Kendi began his discussion by posing a “fund ...

October 22, 2020
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Anonymous Grand Juror Reveals Homicide Charges Never Presented in Breonna Taylor Case

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|Date: October 22, 2020
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Anonymous Grand Juror Reveals Homicide Charges Never Presented in Breonna Taylor Case

By Nina Hall LOUISVILLE, KY – An anonymous grand juror in Breonna Taylor’s case wrote, “The grand jury di ...

By Nina Hall LOUISVILLE, KY – An anonymous grand juror in Breonna Taylor’s case wrote, “The grand jury did not have homicide offenses explained to them” this week, just hours after Judge Annie O'Conne ...

October 22, 2020
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ACLU Files Brief in Support of Motion to Reopen Case of Woman Convicted of Murder for Stillborn Birth

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|Date: October 22, 2020
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ACLU Files Brief in Support of Motion to Reopen Case of Woman Convicted of Murder for Stillborn Birth

By Özge Terzioğlu FRESNO— The ACLU of Northern California and Drug Policy Alliance filed briefs in suppor ...

By Özge Terzioğlu FRESNO— The ACLU of Northern California and Drug Policy Alliance filed briefs in support of a motion to allow for Adora Perez, who is serving 11 years in prison for manslaughter afte ...

October 22, 2020
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Court Documents Show Most Arrested in Nationwide Protests Not Trump’s Urban Antifa

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|Date: October 21, 2020
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Court Documents Show Most Arrested in Nationwide Protests Not Trump’s Urban Antifa

By Julietta Bisharyan WASHINGTON - A report written by the Associated Press strongly suggests that the ma ...

By Julietta Bisharyan WASHINGTON - A report written by the Associated Press strongly suggests that the majority of people arrested during nationwide protests against racial injustice were not violent ...

October 21, 2020
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CA Appellate Court Finds CDCR, Warden of San Quentin Behaved with ‘Deliberate Indifference’ in COVID-19 Response

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|Date: October 21, 2020
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CA Appellate Court Finds CDCR, Warden of San Quentin Behaved with ‘Deliberate Indifference’ in COVID-19 Response

By Madison Forwood MARIN COUNTY – California First District Appellate Court has stated that the warden of ...

By Madison Forwood MARIN COUNTY – California First District Appellate Court has stated that the warden of San Quentin Prison and California Dept. of Correction and Rehabilitation (CDCR) have behaved w ...

October 21, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Failures of Grand Jury Process Evident in Breonna Taylor Case

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|Date: October 19, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Failures of Grand Jury Process Evident in Breonna Taylor Case

Process originally meant to be 'bulwark ... between the ordinary citizen and an overzealous prosecutor' h ...

Process originally meant to be 'bulwark ... between the ordinary citizen and an overzealous prosecutor' has turned one-sided and is in dire need of transparency, reform by Miriam Aroni Krinsky The Bre ...

October 19, 2020
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Maricopa County AZ Attorney Debate – Prosecutors Trade Barbs As Gunnigle Makes Case For Refrom

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|Date: October 19, 2020
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Maricopa County AZ Attorney Debate – Prosecutors Trade Barbs As Gunnigle Makes Case For Refrom

By Lauren Smith MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County Attorney Republican incumbent Allister Adel and Dem ...

By Lauren Smith MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County Attorney Republican incumbent Allister Adel and Democratic challenger Julie Gunnigle Friday evening traded barbs and debated criminal justice refo ...

October 19, 2020
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Life Sentence Survivors Speak on Dismantling Mass Incarceration

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|Date: October 19, 2020
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Life Sentence Survivors Speak on Dismantling Mass Incarceration

By Kelly Moran DETROIT – A virtual panel via Zoom focused on re-evaluating life sentences in U.S. prisons ...

By Kelly Moran DETROIT – A virtual panel via Zoom focused on re-evaluating life sentences in U.S. prisons was hosted by The Sentencing Project in partnership last week with Wayne State University. The ...

October 19, 2020
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Looking Back: The Appeals Process Is Woefully Insufficient to Protect the Innocent – Part II

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|Date: October 18, 2020
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Looking Back: The Appeals Process Is Woefully Insufficient to Protect the Innocent – Part II

"Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The West ...

"Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as well as across the c ...

October 18, 2020
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Exonerated Roscetti 4 Oppose Patrick O’Brien for Cook County State Attorney with History of Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: October 18, 2020
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Exonerated Roscetti 4 Oppose Patrick O’Brien for Cook County State Attorney with History of Wrongful Convictions

By Linhchi Nguyen CHICAGO – The “Roscetti Four” – wrongfully convicted men who were eventually exonerated ...

By Linhchi Nguyen CHICAGO – The “Roscetti Four” – wrongfully convicted men who were eventually exonerated – are opposing, in a campaign video, one of the candidates for Cook County State Attorney, cha ...

October 18, 2020
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Felony Disenfranchisement Report Reveals Millions Prevented from Voting

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|Date: October 18, 2020
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Felony Disenfranchisement Report Reveals Millions Prevented from Voting

By Kelsea Valerio WASHINGTON, DC – The Sentencing Project’s “Locked out 2020” report revealed Friday an e ...

By Kelsea Valerio WASHINGTON, DC – The Sentencing Project’s “Locked out 2020” report revealed Friday an estimated 5.2 million people – primarily people of color – will be prohibited from voting in the ...

October 18, 2020
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Potential Jury Misconduct Forces CA Supreme Court to Reexamine Peterson Conviction

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|Date: October 17, 2020
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Potential Jury Misconduct Forces CA Supreme Court to Reexamine Peterson Conviction

By Julian Verdon SAN MATEO COUNTY -The California Supreme Court has ordered another look at Scott Peterso ...

By Julian Verdon SAN MATEO COUNTY -The California Supreme Court has ordered another look at Scott Peterson's conviction for the murder of his wife Laci, who also carried their unborn child, on the gro ...

October 17, 2020
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Commentary: Scott Peterson’s Case May Return for a New Trial – and It Should

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 16, 2020
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Commentary: Scott Peterson’s Case May Return for a New Trial – and It Should

By David Greenwald While last month the California Supreme Court threw out the death penalty in the Scott ...

By David Greenwald While last month the California Supreme Court threw out the death penalty in the Scott Peterson case, that was almost a moot point because there effectively is not a death penalty i ...

October 16, 2020
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Disenfranchisement Finds New Victim in Southern States: The Latinx Community

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|Date: October 16, 2020
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Disenfranchisement Finds New Victim in Southern States: The Latinx Community

By Pavan Potti WASHINGTON D.C. – Recent studies released by the Sentencing Project—designed to calculate ...

By Pavan Potti WASHINGTON D.C. – Recent studies released by the Sentencing Project—designed to calculate the scope of disenfranchisement—estimated that approximately 5.2 million people will be prohibi ...

October 16, 2020
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