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In an unexpectedly-long episode this week, we talk about a Trump judicial nominee getting embarrassed by a Republican Senator, several cases with bodycam and security footage confirming the First Rule of Fsck, and two unusual stories about fake police officers – both with ties to North Carolina. We also talk with special guest Kahran Myers about politics, and for our #Law140 we do a high-level overview of attorney-client privilege.
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Show Notes:
- Our special guest this week is Kahran Myers of Faith in Public Life (Twitter)
- Newspeak debuts at the CDC (Washington Post)
- Trump’s judicial nominees are painfully incompetent (Twitter)
- New study: teen weed use down since legalization (Washington Examiner)
- New study: cocaine deaths of blacks on par with “crisis” opioid deaths of whites (CNN)
- New study: media consistently warp portrayal of black families (Washington Post)
- Why is the race disparity in prison going down? 4 theories (Marshall Project)
- Data Analysis: Police shoot people 2x as often as thought (VICE News)
- ICE kept 92 Somali immigrants on a slave ship for days (Newsweek)
- ALABAMA: Long-read on corrupt Morgan County Sheriff Ana Franklin (New York Times)
- ALABAMA: Southside PD officers Jonathan Works and Brian Walker indicted for rape (AL.com)
- ARIZONA: Killer cop Germayne Cunningham indicted for murder of 7-year-old daughter (CBS 5)
- CALIFORNIA: Long-read exposé on fabricated evidence from the Orange County Crime Lab (OC Weekly)
- CALIFORNIA: Bodycam footage released in gas station beatdown of 21-year-old motorist (CBS LA)
- CALIFORNIA: Fake NC police car spotted in Los Angeles (News & Observer)
- CALIFORNIA: Sacramento man freed after 15 years for wrongful conviction (ABC News)
- CALIFORNIA: Federal ATF joins local weed raid (San Bernardino Sun)
- COLORADO: Man gives deputy the bird, deputy snaps his finger (Denver Post)
- DC: Inciting a riot charges dismissed against J20 protestors (Washington Post)
- Our earlier episode with these prosecutions (Fsck #39)
- FLORIDA: Broward Health commissioners, lawyer indicted for violation sunshine laws (WPLG 10)
- FLORIDA: Man breaks up fight on school bus, gets arrested (Citrus County Chronicle)
- FLORIDA: Bodycam footage released of police arresting 93-year-old woman for unpaid rent (Orlando Sentinel)
- FLORIDA: Marion County deputies Dustin Lay and Christopher Schanding resign after beating woman (Ocala Post)
- GEORGIA: UGA linebacker arrested for comically-small amount of weed (Twitter)
- GEORGIA: Crawford deputies commit puppycide, force owner to cut off dog’s head (Snopes)
- ILLINOIS: Unprecedented hearing on racial bias in dozen trap house cases (Chicago Tribune)
- ILLINOIS: Judge tosses confessions by men beaten by Chicago PD detective Reynaldo Guevara (Chicago Sun Times)
- ILLINOIS: Chicago asks to sue estate of dead teen killed by CPD officer Robert Rialmo (Chicago Tribune)
- ILLINOIS: Exposé uncovers 85% of all police discipline cases being reduced or erased (ProPublica)
- IOWA: State Supreme Court justice orders newspaper to not publish public records (Associated Press)
- KANSAS: Domestic terrorists ask for Trump voters on their jury (Washington Post)
- MARYLAND: Baltimore PD staged a fake funeral for Det. Sean Suiter (Baltimore Beat)
- MICHIGAN: Security cam footage released in bloody jail beating of handcuffed woman (Detroit Free Press)
- MICHIGAN: Bodycam footage released as Grand Rapids police handcuff, point gun at 11-year-old black girl (Washington Post)
- MICHIGAN: Legislature says “LOL, jk!” on refunding driver responsibility fees (Crain’s Detroit Business)
- Our episode on these fees being ended (Fsck #36)
- MICHIGAN: Police now banned from sex with prostitutes (MLive.com)
- Our episode on similar legislation in Alaska (Fsck #17)
- MINNESOTA: Minneapolis PD officer Christopher Reiter sentenced to 6 months for crushing man’s nose (City Pages)
- NEW MEXICO: State police chief wants more transparency with misconduct investigations (Santa Fe New Mexican)
- NEW YORK: NYPD summarily executes 69-year-old man who thought he was being robbed (New York Times)
- NEW YORK: Thompkins County deputy Scott Walters charged with first-degree rape (Ithaca Voice)
- NEW YORK: Utica police officer shoves man to ground while on camera (WKTV 2)
- NEW YORK: Deray Mckesson files defamation lawsuit against Fox News (Baltimore Sun)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Long-read on the non-existent KKK rally (WRAL)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Pedophile cop keeps trying to contact underage girl he raped (Gaston Gazette)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Greensboro PD officers Timothy & Renee Brewer charged with child abuse in beating (WXII 12)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Killer cop Phillip Barker indicted for manslaughter in death of pedestrian (WCNC)
- Our episode with this story (Fsck #16)
- NORTH CAROLINA: No one knows police officer who called girl “half-breed” during stop (News & Observer)
- NORTH CAROLINA: School resource officer re-assigned after choking out high school student (News & Observer)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Republican Register of Deeds indicted for embezzling nearly $1M (News & Observer)
- OHIO: Cops catfish college student, then arrest him for felonies (Reason)
- OHIO: Bodycam footage released of Cincinnati cops illegally tasing 2 brothers (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- OHIO: Conservative Buckeye Institute endorses bail reform (Cleveland.com)
- OREGON: Portland police threaten activists to stop recording them (Portland Mercury)
- OREGON: In-depth investigation into how police regulators keep “bad apples” on the force (The Oregonian)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Entire Aliquippa PD restricted from database after abuse (Beaver Countian)
- TEXAS: Viral video of Austin police savagely beating 37-year-old for jaywalking (Spectrum News Austin)
- TEXAS: Dallas cop Christopher Hankins, first charged with theft, now charged with domestic violence (Dallas Morning News)
- WASHINGTON: Taxpayer arrested for criticizing deputy on Facebook (Kitsap Sun)
- UK: London rape case tossed out because police failed to disclose 40,000 texts (The Times of London)
- Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 104(a) (LII)
- Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 501 (LII)
- Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 502 (LII)
- Swidler & Berlin v. US (Oyez)
- US v. Zolin (Oyez)