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After 3 straight weeks of unusual episodes, we’re back on our regular rotation: a little politics, a lot of criminal justice f*ckery, and a little legal lesson!
Join us this week as we talk about new tariffs, research showing Republican judges give unusually harsh sentences to black defendants, a police officer in Florida arrested for extorting nudes from a women, and police in New Hampshire illegally arresting a guy for criticizing them on social media.
Then, in our #Law140 section, we go over the basics of negligence and how a Florida jury awarded the family of Gregory Hill a mere $0.04.
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Show Notes:
- US Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, pledges America will interfere in foreign elections (UK Guardian)
- The Moscow Muppet promises new aluminum, steel tariffs on US allies (Business Insider)
- The Papaya POTUS legal team sends a memo to Mueller that looks crafted by first-year law students (NY Times)
- Seriously, look at some of the footnotes (Twitter)
- Study: Republican-appointed judges give harsher sentences to black defendants than Democrat-appointed ones (Harvard)
- Should defendants receive “technological due process”? Harvard student argues yes (Harvard)
- Compilation of cases involving “bloodstain-pattern analysis” and courts accepting junk science (ProPublica)
- CALIFORNIA: Humboldt County pedophile cop Cory Jordan Fisher Sr. set for preliminary hearing later this month (Eureka Times Standard)
- There are now 14 total charges pending against Fisher (KIEM 3)
- Plus a civil lawsuit by several inmates (Lost Coast Outpost)
- CALIFORNIA: Oakland church pledges to “divest” from police, avoid calling them (LA Times)
- COLORADO: Unidentified FBI agent on video dropping gun while dancing in club, shooting bystander (Denver Post)
- DC: More J20 charges dismissed after prosecutors commit Brady violations (BuzzFeed News)
- FLORIDA: Racial disparities in how Miami police treat marijuana prosecutions (Miami New Times)
- FLORIDA: Orange City PD officer Joshua David Fancher arrested after threatening to kill woman if she didn’t send him nudes (WKMG 6)
- FLORIDA: Orlando resort apologize to black doctor after video of white family screaming racial slurs at them (Orlando Sentinel)
- The video is pretty bad (Twitter)
- FLORIDA: Orange County chomo deputy Marcus Leon James arrested for raping “child younger than 12” (WKMG 6)
- FLORIDA: Palm Beach County judge rejects “Stand Your Ground” defense from killer cop Nouman Raja (Florida Sun Sentinel)
- FLORIDA: St. Lucie County jury awards $0.04 to family for police execution of Gregory Hill (Miami Herald)
- GEORGIA: Athens-Clarke County PD officer Taylor Saulters fired for running over unarmed black man with his patrol car (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- HAWAII: Waipahu taxpayers pay $650,000.00+ for extrajudicial summary execution of schizophrenic man in 2013 (Hawaii News Now)
- IDAHO: Deputies in Elmore County shoot, kill unidentified man with knife after car chase (KTVB 7)
- IOWA: Bodycam footage “fails to corroborate” Burlington PD killer cop Jesse Hill’s excuse about why he killed white mother Autumn Steele (Des Moines Register)
- KANSAS: Overland Park PD killer cop Clayton Jenison says he was justified in unloading 13 shots, summarily executing suicidal 17-year-old John Albers (Kansas City Star)
- LOUISIANA: White teen laughs on Snapchat over killing “some n*gger” after running over, killing 31-year-old Rell Lewis (WXIA 11)
- MASSACHUSETTS: In-depth profile on how white drug addicts get treatment, not jail (Politico Magazine)
- MISSOURI: Black drivers +85% more likely to be stopped by police than similarly-situated whites (Associated Press)
- NEW HAMPSHIRE: Exeter PD illegally arrest man for his online criticism of crooked Police Chief William Shupe (Slate)
- NEW JERSEY: Paterson PD officer Roger Then indicted for beating suicidal man in hospital (Paterson Times)
- NEW YORK: Hipster real estate agent in NYC on video calling police, shouting racial epithets outside nightclub (NY Post)
- The video is pretty bad (Reddit)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Unidentified Spring Grove PD officer shoots handcuffed man while he’s seated in back of patrol car (York Dispatch)
- TENNESSEE: Armed, white cop killer arrested alive (Nashville Tennesseean)
- TENNESSEE: White neighbor calls police on black real estate agent, police defend agent (The Root)
- VIRGINIA: Self-avowed pedophile and white supremacist running for Congress (HuffPost)
- VIRGINIA: Chesterfield taxpayers pay $6,500,000.00+ to man severely burned by reckless Taser use (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
- AUSTRALIA: Victoria police fake more than a quarter-million breath test results (The Age)
- INDIA: Sikh cop saves Muslim boy from mob attack over Hindu girlfriend (UK Metro News)
- UNITED KINGDOM: Makeup company runs #SpyCops ad campaign, backtracks after intimidation by police (UK Independent)
- Negligence Overview (Justia)
- Excellent 50-state overview of negligence laws (Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer)
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