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Happy Shutdown Day! Join us this week as we talk about California police running a drug trafficking ring, an Ohio deputy killing an unarmed 16-year-old in the courthouse, and New York police being upset they’re not getting as many “get out of jail free” cards as they used to. Then in our #Law140 segment we talk about a viral video of CBP agents asking people for citizenship papers on a Greyhound bus in Florida, and talk about the statutes and case law making that legal.
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Show Notes:
- A summary of past government shutdowns (Vox)
- 9th Circuit: No right to earn a living via prostitution (Reason)
- The ESPLERP v Gascon opinion (Scribd)
- 10th Circuit: Qualified immunity for corrupt Sheriff Terry Maketa punishing subordinates in campaign (10th Circ COA)
- Study: American neighborhoods are becoming more integrated (City Observatory)
- Long-Read: Prosecutors’ abuse of Alford pleas (ProPublica)
- Study: The most prominent #BlueLivesMatter accounts on Twitter were Russian propagandists (UW)
- One of the authors started a thread (Twitter)
- Inspector General confirms Gen. John Kelly gleefully defied the law at DHS (Slate)
- ICE locks detainees in solitary confinement if they don’t participate in “voluntary” labor program (The Intercept)
- ALASKA: Police, prosecutors secretly recorded inmate conversations with defense attorneys (Anchorage Daily News)
- ARIZONA: Border Patrol routinely destroys jugs of water and other supplies (The UK Guardian)
- CALIFORNIA: Auburn HOA orders residents to keep garage doors open or be fined $200 (KTXL 40)
- CALIFORNIA: Police tase, kill 34-year-old Warren Ragudo in response to welfare check (KPIX 5)
- CALIFORNIA: Long Beach police summarily execute 25-year-old Luis Perez for “bicycle infractions” (KTLA 5)
- CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles deputy Kenneth Collins and 3 other cops charged with running drug distribution ring (LA Times)
- COLORADO: Colorado Springs PD shells out $2,471,350.00 to settle discrimination lawsuit (KOAA 5)
- FLORIDA: Video shows Customs & Border Patrol demanding proof of citizenship from everyone riding Greyhound bus (Twitter)
- FLORIDA: Palm Beach deputy arrested with 16 pounds of marijuana (The SunSentinel)
- FLORIDA: Vero Beach police disconnect innocent man’s security camera (WFTS 28)
- ILLINOIS: Chicago police only solve 17.2% of murders (Twitter)
- ILLINOIS: Murder convictions thrown out against Jaime Hauad after police tortured him into confessing (WGN 9)
- KENTUCKY: Prospect PD assistant police chief’s advice to trainee: “If black, shoot them” (The Courier Journal)
- MARYLAND: Baltimore’s police chief has been fired (Baltimore Sun)
- MARYLAND: Demetrius Smith is freed after 5 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit (ProPublica)
- MICHIGAN: Jackson prison serves rotten, maggot-infested food to inmates (Detroit Metro Times)
- MICHIGAN: ICE deporting 42-year-old doctor for decades-old misdemeanor plea (WOOD 8)
- NEW YORK: NYPD PBA cuts number of “Get Out of Jail Free” cards given to cops, sparks outrage (NY Post)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Durham officer JJ Barazandeh saves 2 women from icy creek (Durham Herald-Sun)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Mecklenburg deputy kills deputy husband (Charlotte Observer)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Former police officer sexually assaults Laurinburg women in exchange for housing (BBC)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Prisons ban “The New Jim Crow” from inmates (NY Times)
- OHIO: Columbus officer pulls gun on suicidal black man (WCMH 4)
- OHIO: Franklin County officer shoots, kills 16-year-old Joseph Haynes in courthouse (Columbus Dispatch)
- OKLAHOMA: Charges dismissed against Tulsa black man arrested for “over-complying” (Raw Story)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia police covered up officer’s DUI (Philly.com)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Pittsburgh taxpayers will pay $5.5M to Leon Ford after police paralyze him (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- TENNESSEE: Barber police bust Elias Zarate for heinous crime of barbering without a high school diploma (Reason)
- TEXAS: Judge tells juror “God told him” Defendant is not guilty (WPXI 11)
- TEXAS: Lyndo Jones files civil rights lawsuit against Mesquite PD (Austin American-Statesmen)
- UTAH: Most search warrants approved in 10 minutes or less, many in just seconds (Salt Lake Tribune)
- CANADA: Police start to write ticket for snow sculpture of Delorean (WGCL 46)
- Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution (LII)
- Article II of the Constitution (LII)
- The Fourth Amendment (LII)
- 8 CFR 287.1 (LII)
- Chae Chan Ping v US, the “Chinese Exclusion Case” (Justia)
- Shaughnessy v US ex rel Mezei (Justia)
- US v Brignoni-Ponce (Oyez)
- US v Ortiz (Oyez)
- US v Martinez-Fuerte (Oyez)