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'Depending on the outcome, dozens of felony convictions could be overturned on grounds that the defendants were denied their Sixth Amendment rights to be tried by a jury of their peers.'

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'A blatantly unwarranted strip search of a Black man on a public street ... violates basic human rights & Florida law.' @lmonet comments on the disciplining of Jacksonville officers for public strip search.

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Cops Are Destroying Meth Lab Evidence? 💥👮‍♂️

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'It appears as though some of the judges have this lock-down mentality in which they have become desensitized.' Michael P. Heiskell Michael Heiskell speaks with Law360 on a new report from Scrutinize & RaceNYU on excessive sentencing in NY.

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Police Illegally Listening to Your Calls?👮‍♂️📱
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BIG & BREAKING: A bright spot among a disappointing slew of vetoes: HB102, a bill to increase compensation for court-appointed private attorneys in criminal cases, has been signed into law! Thank you Del. Atoosa Reaser and Sen. Russet Perry for carrying this critical legislation!

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The Guantánamo Spy Who Wasn’t: 'Ahmad Al-Halabi was an immigrant who did the most American thing possible: join the military. Then the U.S. government accused him of espionage.'

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Tom Meagher Dorsey's lawyers also argued it violates the Constitution to kill someone who has been rehabilitated.

Their argument is that there's no point to the death penalty in such circumstances.

But SCOTUS and Missouri Gov. Mike Parson appear to disagree.

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#BREAKING : Supreme Court denied a stay of execution to Brian Dorsey.

There is now nothing stopping his lethal injection in Missouri tonight.

Dorsey argued his trial lawyers had no incentive to save his life, given how they were paid.

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Is your jurisdiction seeking to strengthen 6th Amendment protections? Join Bureau of Justice Assistance, Center for Justice Innovation, National Legal Aid & Defender Association & NACDL on 4/23, 2pm ET for a webinar on opportunities for no-cost training & technical assistance through BJA’s Justice for All program. Register 👇 buff.ly/3TFWTiW

'Under Senate Bill 1, which was promoted by Republicans as a 'voter integrity' bill, anyone who assists another voter with obtaining, filling out or submitting an absentee ballot may be subject to prosecution.'

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Opinion from The New York Times: A Reversal Cannot Undo the Damage Caused by This Voting Fraud Case

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Two civil rights groups castigated the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) this week for a proposed crackdown on imprisoned peoples’ access to social media—including a possible ban on accounts run by family on the outside.

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