July2016
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Plastic Doll Evades Sexual Assault Charges In Murfreesboro On Technicality
Jul 29, 2016(Comments: 10)July 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Murfreesboro, Tennessee’s police are starting to finally get their acts together after the recent fiasco involving arrests of elementary school kids over an alleged off campus fight. They responded to... -
Fault Lines Friday Fail
Jul 29, 2016(Comments: 5)July 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Welcome back to the most wonderful time of the week, the (almost) weekend, and another edition of the Fault Lines Friday Fail. From prosecutors angrily justifying placing rape victims behind... -
Facts Catch Up To Former St. Louis Cop Jason Stockley
Jul 29, 2016(Comments: 0)July 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Earlier this week, we discussed how an abusive officer was criminally charged in Reading, Pennsylvania. Today we want to discuss former Saint Louis Police officer Jason Stockley being charged with... -
Trenton Learns Just How Expensive Cop Insanity Can Be
Jul 29, 2016(Comments: 4)July 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) — On Thursday, July 21, New Jersey taxpayers gave a lot of money to Lael Queen and Kenia Leiva. Both Queen and Leiva were residents of Trenton, and both had been... -
Indiana Court of Appeals Aborts Purvis Patel’s Sentence
Jul 29, 2016(Comments: 2)July 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Purvi Patel wanted an abortion. She had had an affair with a married man who worked with her at a Mexican restaurant. At first she was in denial about being pregnant,... -
The Orange County Squeeze
Jul 29, 2016(Comments: 4)July 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) – One of the insights into humanity you get by having worked on both the prosecution and defense is how much wearing the right jersey matters. You get hateful comments from... -
Marilyn Mosby: I Needed A Jury, Not Evidence
Jul 29, 2016(Comments: 8)July 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) – Freddie Gray. When flames were licking around the city of Baltimore, his life was destined to symbolize a police force out of control and a people no longer willing to... -
Drug Warriors Can’t Tell Donut Glaze from Meth, Drug War Rages On
Jul 29, 2016(Comments: 5)July 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) — A recent story from Orlando about police officers confusing donut glaze for meth would almost be too ridiculous to believe if it weren’t for the drug war having provided us with... -
Kinsey Heals, PBA Makes Excuses, Soto Still Autistic
Jul 28, 2016(Comments: 1)July 28, 2016 (Fault Lines) — In what passes for a fairytale ending these days, black and unarmed shooting victim Charles Kinsey was recently released from the hospital. Kinsey’s attorney, Hilton Napoleon, told reporters that Mr.... -
Show Us The Money: Miami Criminal Court Rule$ That Bitcoin ≠ Money
Jul 28, 2016(Comments: 1)July 28, 2016 (Fault Lines) — This week, Miami State Court Judge Teresa Pooler dismissed money laundering charges filed against Michell Espinoza for selling Bitcoins to Miami Beach detectives, who had told Expinoza that the Bitcoins...