Lost Girls has a new edition, on sale May 14, featuring a new 25-page epilogue on the astounding arrest of a Gilgo Beach murder suspect who’d been hiding in plain sight for more than a decade (and all the reasons that arrest didn’t happen years earlier). a.co/d/ej9VXBe

'Chaotic and Thrilling': An account of how Columbia students' radio station, WKCR-FM NY, has been covering the protests and arrests by stationing reporters all around campus and broadcasting them live. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

At 5:59 am yesterday, Leo Schofield walked out of prison after serving 36 years for a crime he did not commit.

We accompanied him to a halfway house. Stay tuned for a special bonus episode of #BoneValley

My internal monologue every time I do court reporting

writers I am here to once again implore you that fighting with your editors is like punching the lifeguard who’s trying to save you

The last decade of crowd policing has not been particularly lawful or orderly. Send in the riot squad, dramatically inflame and escalate the situation, perform extraordinarily dubious arrests and uses of force, eat a several million dollar settlement a bit later, repeat.

Remember folks, if there is a violent crackdown of a peaceful protest at a state university, you can request records of potential administration communications with elected officials

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

A reminder to prosecutors that if a judge is giving you everything you ask for, it's your job to exercise restraint and think about your record on appeal.

Austin and UT have a long history of supporting free speech and the right of students to nonviolently protest. Videos and reports from the UT campus are highly disturbing. Our constitution protects peaceful demonstration and the freedom of speech.

I can’t remember a journalist ever being arrested for doing his job in my 24 years of reporting in Austin.

Carlos is a photographer at Fox 7 in Austin and was here covering the protest for his station.

Law enforcement have now arrested a FOX 7 Austin photographer.

I organized many, many demonstrations at UTexas while studying there 20 years ago.

We camped out on the South Mall several times.

We held huge marches in this very location (it was still a working road, not a plaza). Never that I can remember was DPS called in like this.

For everyone who is interested in Columbia but has not actually been to campus, it’s worth reading the student journalists who are reporting on this daily. columbiaspectator.com

Being a journalist rules because you can email people who've spent 40 years studying April 1978 of the Carter administration or ''Nelly's 'Country Grammar' and the Black Midwestern diaspora' and be like 'explain this to me in 20 minutes like I'm the dumbest person to ever exist.'

The only reason that advanced DNA testing will *finally* be performed in this case is because one of the men wrongfully convicted of the murders pushed for it. The victims were killed 31 years ago. As recently as two years ago, a judge denied the testing.

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This is a huge and long overdue development. No longer can a federal judge use a not-guilty verdict to increase someone’s sentence – and yes it is despicable and utterly insane that it was ever allowed in the first place.