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October 28, 2016 (Fault Lines) – In March of 2015, Cleveland officer Alan Buford and his partner Greg King responded to a convenience store break in, where they found 18-year-old Brandon Jones exiting the store with...

Apr. 28, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — It seemed like Cleveland officials had achieved peak callousness when the city recently billed the estate of Tamir Rice $500 for his “last dying expense”- the cost of the dying...

Apr. 26, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Welcome to Tuesday, people. Here’s what we’re watching: Fort Pierce, FL, are demanding more information about the police shooting of Demarcus Semer on Saturday night. Police claim that Semer attempted...

Mar. 24, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — My co-blogger Andrew King recently concern-trolled my and Greenfield’s approvals of the primary elections that displaced Anita Alvarez and Tim McGinty. His warning to “be careful what wish for”...

Mar. 22, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Prosecutors lose elections. Really, it does happen. We are told that it is a rare occurrence, but still it happens. As it so happens this time around, a number of...

Mar. 21, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Bye Anita, Bye Tim. I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil, and sweat. Now, however, the bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers, and warmed and...

Dec. 7, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — More than a year has elapsed since Timothy Loehmann killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, and yet it continues to ooze the pus of an unhealed wound.  The latest rounds of the...

Oct. 15, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Ed. Note: The hallmark of Fault Lines is that it seeks to present all perspective in the discussion of criminal law. That includes law enforcement, prosecution, public defense, private defense and...

Oct. 15, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — A couple of months ago, I wrote here about police shootings and how it is that the law does nothing to deter them. The problem was that the Supreme Court...

Oct. 13, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The death of Tamir Rice, while tragic, was not murder, and was not the fault of the rookie police officer, Timothy...