July2016

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...