Sept. 11, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Prosecutors in Massachusetts have charged teenager Michelle Carter with involuntary manslaughter leading to the death of her boyfriend Conrad Roy III. Roy, 18, died of apparently self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning in...

Sept. 2, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — If you happen to meet former Texas state trooper Kelly Helleson, you might not want to shake her hand. Since Helleson’s illegal, abusive conduct inspired a new Texas law that...

Aug. 27, 2015 (Mimesis Law) —On Wednesday morning, WDBJ-TV viewers in Roanoke, Virginia witnessed the fatal shootings of reporter Alison Parker and camera operator Adam Ward during a live broadcast of the station’s morning show. Authorities...

Aug. 19, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — This week, I moved from a slick, overpriced downtown loft apartment to a tiny shotgun house in Freedmen’s Town in Houston’s Fourth Ward. The move means more than a change...

Aug. 12, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, the Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a classmate last year, are a step closer to being tried as adults. On Monday, Wisconsin Circuit Judge Michael Bohren...

Aug. 5, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — While methods differ, virtually everyone wants to live in a society that protects civil liberties, while keeping the public safe. Regular readers of Fault Lines know that lots of bright...

July 29, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — This week, New York Magazine published a story called “‘I’m No Longer Afraid’: 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the Culture That Wouldn’t Listen.”...

July 22, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — The following are a few places where surveillance cameras have recorded video of me in the last day or so. At the gas pump where I refueled my car. At...

July 15, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — How old does a homicidal schizophrenic person need to be before society stops offering mercy?  Comparing the criminal cases of Morgan Geyser and James Holmes might provide the answer. James...

July 8, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — The ancient Greeks recognized maternal filicide as the ultimate depravity, a sign of a woman gone mad, if not a woman gone wholly evil.  When the playwright Euripides has Medea...