Crime Story Daily

PM Stories Georgia shooting case will go to grand jury as disturbing video surfaces online Michael Brice-Saddler and Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post He said police had the wrong guy. Now after 11 years, Harris County officials agree. St. John Barned-Smith, Houston Chronicle The Dark History of America’s First Female Terrorist Group William Rosenau, Politico Midnight in the Garden of East Texas (1998) Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly Cunning hitman who embarrassed NYPD was target of biggest manhunt in NYC history Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News Carceral Aesthetics Daniel Fernandez, LA Review of Books The Best True Crime Movies Esquire Natalie Wood’s death is still big business. In HBO’s new doc, her family fights back Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times Courtroom Dramas...

PM Stories The Disappeared Lise Olsen, Texas Observer Missouri’s Attorney General is Fighting for the Right to Keep an Innocent Man in Prison Jordan Smith, The Intercept Police Department Defends Grown Man Beating 14-Year-Old Over Tobacco Purchase Jeremy Stahl, Slate Judge Grants New Trial for Cleveland Man Who’s Maintained Innocence in 1974 Murder of His Wife After Undisclosed Police Reports Surface Vince Grzegorek, Cleveland Scene What to Make of Murph the Surf? Brian Burnsed, Sports Illustrated Will Atlanta child murders ever be solved? Those close to case fear answer is ‘No’ Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times Review: ‘The Central Park Five’ Turns Injustice Into Opera (2019) Zachary Woolfe, New York Times HBO’s I’ll Be Gone In the Dark trailer...

PM Stories After the Virus: California Liberals Say Returning to Normal Won’t Be Enough Tim Arango and Thomas Fuller, New York Times The story of Patrick Jones, the first federal prisoner to die of coronavirus Maurice Chammah, Mic Blame the Justice Department for Andrea Circle Bear’s Death Holly Harris, New York Times Defense argument in felon vote trial highlights leader of Amendment 4 movement (Florida) Dara Kam, Miami Herald Some Hiccups And New Questions, As Week Two Of Florida’s Voting Rights Trial Begins Daniel Rivero, WUSF Why Trump Is Obsessed With the Flynn Case Norman L. Eisen, New York Times When James Baldwin Wrote About the Atlanta Child Murders Casey Cep, The New Yorker Visual Arts Feature: Artists Respond to the...

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: NPR reports from Florida, where a contentious federal trial over felony disenfranchisement began this week. The trial revolves around a state law requiring that convicted felons pay all outstanding court fees and fines in order to regain their voting rights. Of the estimated 1.4 million Floridians with felony convictions, more than half owe legal financial obligations. In Florida, the nation’s largest presidential swing state, major political contests are often decided by a tiny margin; civil rights groups say the law is a blatant attempt to disenfranchise people with felony convictions, especially...

PM Stories Americans’ Faith in Law Is at Stake in the DACA Case H. Lee Sarokin, The Atlantic Striking down DACA would thwart America’s pandemic response Priscilla Chan and Sam Hawgood, Stat The Carceral Kings of New York Ross Barkan, The Appeal Ninth Circuit Again Rejects Lezmond Mitchell Challenges to Death Penalty, but Two Judges Question the Punishment Matthew Fletcher, Turtle Talk The Navajo Nation Opposed His Execution. The US Plans to Do It Anyway. (2019) Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project Philadelphia Juvenile Lifer Program Lowers Rearrests, Saves $9.5M The Crime Report The Hollywood Vigilante Erika Hayasaki, Marie Claire Murder to Mercy: What you didn’t see in the Netflix documentary about Cyntoia Brown Rosy...

PM Stories The Witness Who Saw Nothing Christina Cauterucci, Slate Creation in Confinement: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration Nicole R. Fleetwood, New York Review of Books ‘Murder to Mercy’ Review: Rethinking a Life Sentence Bilal Qureshi, New York Times Maryland high court orders new trial for two men convicted of killing Eastern Shore woman in 1987 Tim Prudente, Baltimore Sun California police to investigate officer shown punching 14-year-old boy on video Vivian Ho, The Guardian Cincinnati Voters Oust Sheriff Who Cooperated With ICE And Championed New Jail Daniel Nichanian, The Appeal ‘Dateline NBC’ Set To Launch ‘Motive For Murder’ True-Crime Podcast Denise Petski, Deadline Hugh Jackman delivers one of his best performances in the true-crime procedural...