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Tag Archives: criminal justice system
The First Step Act: It Needs to be the First Step
By Jules Hayer Associate Editor, Vol. 24 On December 21, 2018 the President signed into law the First Step Act. The First Step Act is a criminal justice reform bill that decreases mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, modifies … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Congress, criminal justice reform, criminal justice system, Trump administration
Is Gang Membership a Crime? How RICO Laws Turn Groups into Gangs
By Kerry Martin Associate Editor, Vol. 24 On June 18, 2018, in a courtroom at the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in downtown Detroit, at the end of a long pretrial argument on a matter of evidence, defendant Corey Bailey stood … Continue reading
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Tagged criminal justice system, criminalization, Detroit, gang violence, Michigan
What the Passage of Michigan’s Proposal One Means for Black and Latinx People
By Elizabeth Morales-Saucedo Associate Editor, Vol. 24 On November 6, 2018, 56% of Michigan voters supported the passage of Proposal One approving the legalization of recreational use and possession of marijuana by persons 21 and older.[1] Michigan is the tenth … Continue reading
California’s Efforts to Reform Bail Leaves Much to be Desired
By Jules Hayer Associate Editor, Vol. 24 Despite recent developments in California to overhaul the bail system, the state still has a long way to go in order to create effective change. In January of this year the California Court … Continue reading
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Tagged bail, California, California Court of Appelas, criminal justice reform, criminal justice system
Undoing Past Wrongs: Chipping Away at Capital Punishment
By Hira Baig Associate Editor, Volume 23 The vast majority of countries, 140 to be exact, consider the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment.[1] The current constitution of Germany, for example, forbids use of capital punishment.[2] Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson … Continue reading
The Continuing Significance of the Non-Unanimous Jury Verdict and the Plantation Prison
By Madeleine Jennings Associate Editor, Vol. 22 In 1934, Oregon voters amended their Constitution to allow for non-unanimous jury verdicts in all non-first degree murder and non-capital cases.[1] The Louisiana Constitution requires unanimity only in capital cases.[2] Grounded in xenophobia and … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged America's Bloodiest Prison, Angola, Angola prison, Apodaca v. Oregon, Burl Cain, convict leasing, criminal justice system, criminal law, daiquiris, distorted history, history, hold-outs, Innocence Project of New Orleans, Johnson v. Louisiana, juries, jury hold-outs, Louisiana, Louisiana constitution, Louisiana State Penitentiary, misunderstanding history, New Orleans, non-unanimous juries, plantation prison, right to jury, Sixth Amendment, state constitution, the Angola, Warden Cain, wrongful conviction
Whitewashing wrongful conviction: reflecting on Making a Murderer
By Breanna Caldwell Associate Editor, Vol. 21 Executive Editor, Vol. 22 On the off chance that you have been able to avoid the national phenomenon surrounding the Netflix documentary series, Making a Murderer, since it first aired in December 2015, … Continue reading
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Tagged criminal justice system, Department of Justice, DNA evidence, DNA exoneration, documentary, explicit racial bias, false convictions, Gregory Allen, implicit bias, intentional racial stereotyping, Kathleen Zellner, life sentence, Making a Murderer, Manitowoc County, Midwest Innocence Project, murder trial, narratinve, National Registry of Exonerations, public discourse, public opinion, rape investigation, Samuel R. Gross, settlement, sex offender, Steven Avery, whitewashing, Wisconsin Innocence Project, wrongful conviction, wrongful imprisonment
