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The Death of Brandon Jones: Tragic, But Not Criminal
Oct 28, 2016(Comments: 6)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... -
Cleveland Cop Union Still Clueless On Tamir Rice
Apr 28, 2016(Comments: 0)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... -
Fault Lines Links – FL Residents Demand Answers In Police Shooting Of Demarcus Semer
Apr 26, 2016(Comments: 0)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... -
Alvarez and McGinty: Being Careful What I Wish For
Mar 24, 2016(Comments: 1)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”... -
Be Careful What You Wish For, McGinty & Alvarez Edition
Mar 22, 2016(Comments: 4)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... -
Alvarez & McGinty Out, But Will Anything Change?
Mar 21, 2016(Comments: 3)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... -
Tamir Rice and The Hard Science of Murder
Dec 7, 2015(Comments: 1)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... -
If We Don’t Hear What We Want, We Can Always ‘Dis the Writer
Oct 16, 2015(Comments: 14)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... -
Just Another Day on the Mean Streets For Shooter Timothy Loehmann
Oct 15, 2015(Comments: 7)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... -
If We Don’t Get the Results We Want . . .
Oct 13, 2015(Comments: 61)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...