February2017

February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Ed. Note: Colorado Senior District Court Judge John Kane was asked his thoughts about Tenth Circuit Judge and Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. I read a great many appellate opinions...

February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines) –  Good legislative drafting is hard to do. And bad legislative drafting is easy to do. In the criminal sphere, bad drafting leads to open-ended statutes with broad terms defining an...

February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Fault Lines contributors have previously discussed the need for criminal defendants to develop a rapport with the trier of fact at sentencing. That doesn’t always mean flaunting that you and the judge...

February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines) – There is one big truth in the American criminal justice system. Average Americans don’t care about justice because they aren’t criminals. You did the crime, you do the time. Wrongful...

February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines)– Jeffrey S. Knoble, Jr. was recently spared the death penalty after he was convicted of first-degree murder in Easton, Pennsylvania. While Knoble apparently committed a horrific murder, the District Attorney agreed to...

February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On August 15, 2006, 17-year-old single mother Candace Hiltz was found dead, shot five times in the back with a small-caliber pistol, once in the chest with a medium-caliber pistol,...

February 27, 2016 (Fault Lines) — The police often get a bad rap when it comes to sexual assault investigations. A lot of times, it’s because of articles like this one, where the headline blares “Justice...

February 27, 2017 (Fault Lines) – When it comes to law enforcement scandals, America’s Second City always manages to outdo itself. Chicago’s (wo)men in blue are constantly in the headlines facing allegations of misconduct, perjury, and just...

February 27, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On April 21, 1997, a Loomis-Fargo armored-car driver, James Day, was shot in the back of the head outside a Memphis Walgreens where he’d just picked up a bag of...

February 27, 2017 (Fault Lines) — In California, they passed a law to protect child victims of prostitution. The main effect of the law is to make it so any kid under 18 caught engaging in...