- Man left in solitary confinement for 2 years gets $15.5 million settlement—"Williams, the Dona Ana County public information officer, said no jail personnel have been fired over Slevin's treatment."
- Johnathon Montgomery leaves prison after receiving Governor's pardon—"Montgomery's accuser, 22-year-old Elizabeth Paige Coast, recently admitted she lied. She was 17 when she accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 10 and he was 14. In recanting, she said she made up the story after her parents caught her looking at sexually explicit websites."
- Police captain exonerated in wife's murder, freed from prison—"A former Akron, Ohio, police captain who was convicted of murdering his wife in 1997 has been cleared of the crime and released after more than 14 years in prison."
- Years After Innocence Finding, Inmate Remains in Prison
- Evidence destroyed, innocence lost: the preservation of biological evidence under innocence protection statutes.
- Appeal denied for killer who sent taunting letter—"The murderer of a 16-year-old girl was denied a hearing before the Supreme Court on Monday, after a letter bragging about his crimes got him a cell on Virginia's death row."
- Ohio teen wears 'killer' shirt, curses at victims' families
- Teacher in Taiwan Arrested after Intentionally Infecting 50 Men with HIV
- Red light camera firm admits it likely bribed Chicago official
- Judge slams Ohio village's speed cameras—"In a scathing ruling, a Hamilton County judge ruled that an ordinance allowing this village of 2,000 to install speed cameras is invalid and unenforceable."
- Speed camera gives ticket to stationary car—"A speed camera in Baltimore declares that a Mazda is doing 38 mph in a 25 mph zone. It wasn't. It was standing still at a red light."
- Enraged protesters battle cops in Brooklyn streets during third night of rioting after it's revealed that 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot in the back
- Newport News police officer charged with perjury in connection to DUI case—"Mounger had been recognized in the past for having the most drinking-and-driving arrests in the department. [...] In a 2008 interview with the Daily Press, Mounger said he was determined to boost the number of DUI arrests...."
- No New Truck for Women Shot During Dorner Manhunt—"Officers opened fire on the newspaper delivery women, piercing their pickup truck with more than 100 bullet holes."
- Polygraphs and false confessions in Chicago—"A Tribune investigation finds that Chicago police have long ignored voluntary standards for polygraph exams, even as those methods and the examiners themselves have factored into cases costing the city millions of dollars in damages."
- Police Women of Cincinnati- Partiers Won't Open Door—There weren't any warrants issued.
- Man Arrested for Flipping Off Cop Wins Day in Court
- Tennessee Bill Would Abolish Civil Forfeiture
- Illinois county to pay ACLU $600K after high court voids eavesdropping law—"ACLU sued state lawyer for prosecuting cases in violation of First Amendment."
- U.S. weighs in favor of right to record police—As I said before, this protects the cops too from suspects and witnesses.
- Brooklyn woman tries to fake injury from falling light pole, but video catches real story
- Australia: Police 'naive' to tell public not to film arrest
- Charges dropped against man claiming officers planted drugs on him—"But the DeKalb County Solicitor General's Office said the dismissal has nothing to do with a surveillance video Alphonzo Eleby said proves the officer set him up."
- Assault Weapons Ban Dead In Senate, Gun Background Checks In Critical Condition
- Residents of Byron, Maine, reject bid to force people to own guns
- Georgia Town Wants to Make Gun Ownership Mandatory
- California Seizes Guns as Owners Lose Right to Keep Arms
- UCF Gunman's To-Do List Ended With 'Give 'Em Hell'
- Loudoun teen fatally shot by homeowner identified
- People don't want a gun—"They want the comfort and safety a gun provides. [...] The solution to the problem of handguns isn't to make them illegal, it's to make them unnecessary."
- America's drug war of attrition—"Decades after Nixon fired the first salvo, most everyone agrees it's time for a truce. And still the battle rages." Salon
- U.N. development chief slams War on Drugs—"Helen Clark, a former health minister, says criminalizing drugs has created more problems than it has solved." Salon
- Bill requires welfare recipients to sign waiver of their Fourth Amendment rights
- Cops' firing for drugs reversed
- El Paso Vice: When Drug Cops Become Criminals
- Trial over NYPD stop-and-frisk tactic set to begin—"Police have made about 5 million stops of New Yorkers in the past decade, mostly black and Hispanic men." Salon
- Leaked audio: Police union set arrest quotas with NYPD—"A recording that will be used in the Stop-and-Frisk trial suggests the union have been pushing illegal quotas." Salon
- NYPD Spent 1 Million Hours In Ten Years On Marijuana Arrests, Analysis Finds
- Anti-Weed N.Y. Assemblyman Steve Katz Charged With Possession
- Former DEA chief won’t say why marijuana is different than alcohol
- Federal Government Reports Marijuana Effective in Combatting Certain Cancers Reports ADSI—Medical marijuana does work according to the Advocates for the Disabled and Seriously Ill.
- Md. Senate votes to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana
- Time to Fight a New 'Sober DUI' Bill—"Correa's Senate Bill 289, introduced Friday, would make it a crime for sober drivers to have any detectable levels of any drug in their system, unless they had a prescription for it."
- Relaxation of US cannabis laws 'violates UN drug conventions'—Why is the "UN trying to stop legalization laws?" (Salon)
- Copenhagen looking to import cannabis from the US
- 'Marijuana Millionaire' To Match Donations Made To Decriminalize Pot In B.C.
- UK: Cannabis scratch and sniff cards to track down farms
- French court rejects sick man's plea for medicinal cannabis, fines him €300 for possession
