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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...