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Deanna Caraballo Almost Got What She Deserves
March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Deanna Caraballo killed a defenseless, fuzzy, little animal, and she got a year in prison: A Cleveland woman was sentenced to the maximum penalty of one year in prison Monday for... -
Daniela Vargas’ Punishment for Speaking Out
March 3, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Shortly after Daniela Vargas finished giving a speech about the impact of deportations on families, ICE took her into custody. Moments after an immigrant spoke out about her fears of... -
Corrupt Sgt. Ronald Watts: Just the Tip of the Iceberg
March 1, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Prosecutors may be investigating if a corrupt Chicago cop tainted other convictions, as the headline for the article explains, but they’d have to be the stupidest bunch of prosecutors on... -
Drunk Prosecutors: Just Another Professional Courtesy
February 24, 2017 (Fault Lines)– Joshua Kuiper shouldn’t have been driving: e drove the wrong way on Union Avenue SE in Grand Rapids — going 41 mph in a 25 mph zone, according to the documents... -
The Value of Gold Teeth in Georgia
February 22, 2017 (Fault Lines) — WSB-TV went with a sensational but misleading headline for its article about the Georgia Court of Appeals reversing the trial court’s refusal to give Duvall Minor and Robert Clayton a... -
Being Tough on Immigration Means Being Tough on Victims
February 17, 2017 (Fault Lines) — It should go without saying that immigrants are people. They’re hardworking. They’re lazy. They’re smart. They’re stupid. They possess every single trait, good or bad, that non-immigrants possess. That means some... -
The Effect of Cuyahoga County’s Uncharged Sexual Assault Cases
February 15, 2017 (Fault Lines) — The headline of the article certainly makes the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office’s failure to properly track certain sex cases sound like a really big deal: Prosecutors uncover dozens of uncharged... -
Stephen Schulz and Donte Harris’s Typical Crime
February 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) — What the media chooses to report, and how it chooses to report it, is a real mystery. Take this headline, for instance: 2 Metairie teens arrested in Baton Rouge motorcycle shop... -
Donovan Winter Arrested for First Degree Teenage Stupidity
February 3, 2017 (Fault Lines) — It’s sometimes hard to say if talented football players with bright futures commit more crimes than everyone else or if we just hear about it more because they’re celebrities. Either... -
Kevin Rojano-Nieto: Another Sentence for Outrage?
February 1, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Kevin Rojano-Nieto was looking at a mandatory sentence of 25 to life for sodomizing his three-year-old half-sister. Amazingly, the judge at sentencing decided that was cruel and unusual punishment and...