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Wednesday May 13, 2020

PM Stories US judge puts Justice Department’s move to drop charges against Michael Flynn on hold Spencer S. Hsu and Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post Why the DOJ’s Dropping Charges Against Michael Flynn Is So Insidious Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Will the Supreme Court rectify its qualified immunity mistake? George F. Will, Washington Post How Supreme Court Doctrine Protects Cops Who Kill (or Otherwise Use Excessive Force) Jonathan H. Adler, Reason Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic The Citizen’s Arrest Law Cited in Arbery’s Killing Dates Back to the Civil War Frances Robles, New York Times Some Laws Shouldn’t Be Enforced Barry Lam, Slate Ronnie Long’s last shot at freedom: Judge asks, ‘When did...

Tuesday May 12, 2020

PM Stories We Are Living in the Age of the Black-Panic Defense Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker Killing of Ahmaud Arbery Is Switched to a Fourth Prosecutor Rick Rojas and Richard Fausset, New York Times Justice Department Considers Hate-Crime Charges in Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery Arian Campo-Flores, Wall Street Journal More than 1,900 former Justice Dept. employees again call for Barr’s resignation Matt Zapotosky, Washington Post A Presumption of Flynnocence Matt Ford, New Republic Sentenced for Three Strikes, Then Freed. Now Comes a Pushback. Maria Cramer, New York Times He Got 80 Years for Murder Because of a ‘Hero’ Cop. Then Witnesses Recanted. Erisa Apantaku, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Alison Flowers, Ellen Glover, and Jonah Newman, Daily Beast Not...

Monday May 11, 2020

PM Stories The Ahmaud Arbery case exposes the failures of the criminal justice system Adrienne Chudzinski, Washington Post “Not Who We Are”? This Is All America Has Ever Been. Nathalie Baptiste, Mother Jones Georgia Killing Puts Spotlight on a Police Force’s Troubled History Rick Rojas, Richard Fausset, and Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times The District Attorney Who Saw “No Grounds for Arrest” in the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery Has a History Joel Anderson, Slate The Voting Rights of Florida Citizens Hang in the Balance Once Again Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Talking Points Memo For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Jackie Botts, Andrea Januta, and Guillermo Gomez, Reuters Courts Grant Qualified Immunity to Cops in...

Crime Story Daily Highlights – Week 39

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: The Crime Report details three corrections administrators’ successes in containing the spread of COVID-19. A piece from the Marshall Project focuses on probation and parole in the time of COVID-19, highlighting the many barriers – court closures, faulty technology, and delays in post-release programs – keeping a population prime for release behind bars. The Washington Post looks back on the early ‘90s, when a tuberculosis outbreak in New York City’s prisons and jails called attention to the public health risks of mass...

Friday May 8, 2020

PM Stories 2 Suspects Charged With Murder in Ahmaud Arbery Shooting Richard Fausset, New York Times Why outrage about Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting came from all corners of the political spectrum – and quickly Eugene Scott, Washington Post A Vigilante Killing in Georgia David French, The Dispatch Scrutiny of Social-Distance Policing as 35 of 40 Arrested Are Black Ashley Southall, New York Times ‘We Cannot Police Our Way Out of a Pandemic.’ Experts, Police Union Say NYPD Should Not Be Enforcing Social Distance Rules Amid COVID-19 Josiah Bates, Time Justice Dept. moves to drop case against Michael Flynn Spencer S. Hsu, Devlin Barrett, and Matt Zapotosky, Washington Post An Ugly Day for the Justice Department Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic,...

Thursday May 7, 2020

PM Stories When Blackness Is a Preexisting Condition Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, New Republic The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery Charles M. Blow, New York Times The Separation Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Alysia Santo, The Marshall Project The Supreme Court and the Flawed Search for Justice Hannah Cox, The Crime Report New Campus Sexual-Harassment Rule Aims to Boost Rights for Accused Melissa Korn, Wall Street Journal Moving Classes Online Is Hard – Especially in Prisons Mia Armstrong, Slate A judge transformed her courtroom into a reality-TV show about domestic violence victims, ethics probe says Katie Shepherd, Washington Post Following the North Star Shaheen Pasha, Longreads Solidarity Through Poetry Mark Nowak, Boston Review AM Stories Covid-19 Continues Its Toll on Jails and Prisons Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Brennan...