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Join us this week for a case of actual RICO in Georgia, the number of euphemisms a Kentucky news outlet will use to avoid saying a police officer raped 5 women, and an outrageous story in Fort Worth Texas as police kill a woman in her own home while she’s playing video games with her nephew. Plus, a #Law140 overview of the appeals process!

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Show Notes:

• Thanks to Emmett Plant for this week’s cover art! Follow Emmett on Twitter here!
• Vic Mignogna, his attorney Ty Beard, and his advisor Nick Rekieta got LOL’d out of court (Dallas Morning News)
• CBP Officer illegally detains journalist until he admits to writing “propaganda” (Defense One)
• ICE relocates 700 women detainees, refuses to notify attorneys of where they’re being held (HuffPost)
• FLORIDA: West Palm Beach County Judge John Kastrenakes sentences 21-year-old black man to jail for oversleeping jury duty (BuzzFeed News)
• GEORGIA: City of White police chief David Johnny King, city clerk Jane Lanette Richards and police officer Blake Douglas Scheff indicted for RICO, extortion (WMAZ 13)
• ILLINOIS: DeKalb police on video choking the sh*t out of unarmed 25-year-old black man Elonte McDowell for minor weed possession (ABC News)
• ILLINOIS: 9-year-old Kyle Alwood charged with first-degree murder for lethal trailer fire (Peoria Journal Star)
• KENTUCKY: Louisville PD officer Pablo Cano sentenced to just 5 years for “unwanted sex” – rape – of five different women and possession of kiddie porn (WOWK 13)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore DA identifies 25 more “discredited” police officers, asks court to vacate 800+ convictions (Baltimore Sun)
  • We talked about the GTTF in Fsck #25
  • …and Fsck #27
  • …and Fsck #32
  • …and Fsck #38
  • …and Fsck #39
  • …and Fsck #41
  • …and Fsck #46
  • …and Fsck #47
  • …and Fsck #50
  • …and Fsck #51
  • …and Fsck #53
  • …and Fsck #55
  • …and Fsck #57
• NEW YORK: NYPD perv cop Raul Olmeda acquitted of raping 15-year-old, but convicted of witness tampering (NY Daily News)
  • Our episode on Olmeda’s indictment for rape (Fsck #32)
• NEW YORK: Bronx prosecutors release some records on Brady List police (Gothamist)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Chester Township PD officer Pasquale Storace III arrests black folks for “loitering” in their own yard, then re-arrests them again after they’re released from jail (KYW 1080AM)
• PENNSYLVANIA: 54-year-old black man Willie Veasy exonerated, freed after serving 27 years in prison for murder he did not commit (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• TEXAS: Dallas PD killer cop Amanda Guyger convicted of murder, sentenced to 10 years in killing of Botham Jean (Dallas Morning News)
  • Our episode on Jean’s execution (Fsck #82)
  • Our episode on the subsequent murder indictment (Fsck #88)
• TEXAS: Joshua Brown, key witness in Guyger murder trial, gunned down in his parking lot days after the verdict (Dallas Morning News)
• TEXAS: Unidentified Fort Worth police officer summarily executes unarmed 28-year-old black woman Atatiana Jefferson, in her own home, while she was playing video games with her nephew (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• TEXAS: Houston murder suspects stop paying for ankle monitor, so government stops monitoring him (KTRK 13)
• AUSTRALIA: A drug addict dressed up as a police officer and successfully raided another addict’s home for drugs (The Age)

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We announced Season 3 a little early so we’re trying again! Join us this week as we talk about a Florida corrections officer raping a woman on house arrest, a North Carolina sex crimes detective committing sex crimes, the Fifth Circuit denying qualified immunity to a Texas cop who arrested a photographer for sport, and much more!

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Show Notes:

• Threadnought Day 100 Roundtable with the Violet Wanderers podcast!
• Fifth Circuit: No qualified immunity for Dallas police officer who arrested freelance photographer for taking pictures (Reason)
  • The Fifth Circuit’s opinion in Adelman v. Branch (Reason)
• CALIFORNIA: LAPD killer cop Salvador Sanchez will not be charged in the extrajudicial summary execution of schizophrenic Kenneth French (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Uber driver files First Amendment lawsuit after San Diego police officer Jason Langley arrests him and has his car impounded for recording on his phone (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• FLORIDA: Miami-Dade corrections officer Yulian Gonzalez arrested for raping woman on house arrest (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: Orlando PD School Resource Officer Dennis Turner, fired for arresting two 6-year-old black kids, had a history of child abuse! (BuzzFeed News)
• FLORIDA: Tamarac Commissioner Mike Gelin confronts Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy Joshua Gallardo during awards ceremony about false arrest (WSVN 7)
• FLORIDA: Tarpon Springs PD officer Steve Bergren resigns before he can be fired for threatening a mass shooting (Tampa Bay Times)
• GEORGIA: Georgia State Patrol officer Brian Sanchez fired, arrested for aggravated child molestation (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• GEORGIA: Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Kathryn Schrader for computer trespass after investigating to see if DA’s Office was spying on her (Gwinnett Daily Post)
• GEORGIA: Hampton PD officers summarily execute naked 24-year-old Fernando Rodriquez as 3 officers tase him at the same time (WSB 2)
• IDAHO: Deputy lies to teens about Miranda rights, felony rape charges reduced to misdemeanor assault after confessions are thrown out (Idaho Statesman)
• KANSAS: Douglas County prosecutor Amy McGowan deliberately kept innocent people in jail, magically avoids discipline (Kansas City Star)
• MICHIGAN: Jonathan Vanderhagen is acquitted in less than 30 minutes after insane prosecution for criticizing judge (Reason)
• MISSISSIPPI: Southaven Police, who went to the wrong house and summarily executed Ismael Lopez in 2017, claim Lopez had no constitutional rights to avoid execution (WMC 5)
  • Our episode on the extrajudicial summary execution without due process of Ismael Lopez (Fsck #19)
  • Our episode on the killer cops who executed Lopez avoiding prosecution (Fsck #77)
• NEW JERSEY: Frank Nucera, ex-police chief indicted for assaulting black teen, insisted to subordinates that Trump was “the last hope for white people” (NJ.com)
  • Our episode on Nucera’s federal indictment (Fsck #36)
  • Our episode on Nucera lying to investigators (Fsck #46)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Jury awards $8,300,000.00 USD verdict to Apex man after Wake County deputies Ricky Spivey, Casey Miller, and Joshua Legan illegally beat and shot him in 2013 then lied about it (WRAL 5)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville PD sex crimes detective Paul G Matrafailo III sent sexual messages to rape victims (News & Observer)

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Join us this week for commentary on the Supreme Court’s criminal justice cases ending the term, a single Florida deputy who’s personally framed more than 100+ motorists for drug offenses, an Illinois man arrested for walking outside, and a bombshell election in New York City!

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Show Notes:

• Episode 93 is a patron-only special on Congressional oversight powers! (Patreon)
• SCOTUS: 7.25-1.75, no §1983 lawsuit for retaliatory arrest if there’s probable cause to arrest on any charge at all (CaseText)
• SCOTUS: 7-2, separate sovereigns exception to double jeopardy remains alive and well (CaseText)
• SCOTUS: 6-3, limitations period for §1983 wrongful prosecution lawsuits don’t start until acquittal (CaseText)
• SCOTUS: 5-4, portion of the Hobbs Act is unconstitutionally vague (CaseText)
• CALIFORNIA: Sacramento County releases disciplinary file on deputy who lied about traffic stop, tased driver (Sacramento Bee)
• CALIFORNIA: San Fransisco police raid home of journalist over leaked report into dead public defender Jeff Adachi (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • The Police Chief is now “sorry” for the raid (San Francisco Chronicle)
• CALIFORNIA: Auditor finds taxpayers pay excessive overtime for the Sheriff’s Office due to paper timesheets (KTVU 2)
• FLORIDA: Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputy Zachary Wester planted drugs in at least 118 vehicles! (The Appeal)
  • Our episode on Deputy Wester’s termination (Fsck #86)
  • This also happens in Chicago (Fsck #51)
  • And in Los Angeles (Fsck #37)
  • And in Baltimore (Fsck #24)
  • And in Baltimore (Fsck #20)
  • And in Baltimore (Fsck #17)
• HAWAII: Former prosecutor Katherine Kealoha jailed after being found guilty of conspiracy (AP News)
  • We talked about this case when the officers involved were indicted for fabricating evidence (Fsck #57)
• ILLINOIS: The state is mass-expunging marijuana convictions (CNN)
• ILLINOIS: Freeport PD police arrest hospital patient Shaquille Dukes for going for a walk as doctor directed (Freeport Journal-Standard)
• MINNESOTA: Elected Hennepin County prosecutor Mike Freeman, whose office routinely jails people for alcohol abuse, takes medical leave for alcohol abuse (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
• NEVADA: Las Vegas prosecutor Liz Mercer admonished by Nevada Supreme Court as a 2nd verdict is overturned for misconduct (KLAS 8)
• NEW YORK: Six NYC jailers indicted for conducting illegal searches, lying about it (NY Times)
• NEW YORK: Queens public defender Tiffany Cabán wins Dem nomination for District Attorney (NY Times)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD officer Robert Milton charged for giving alcohol to 1- and 6-year-old boys (Charlotte Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: White supremacist Kevin Stone, vocal neo-Confederate, is also a Chatham County probation officer (WTVD 11)
• TEXAS: Laredo woman arrested for heinous crime of letting children play outside unsupervised (Laredo Morning Times)

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We’re back! With the first episode of Season 3 upon us, T. Greg and Mike the Sound Guy had to cut out the “podcast notes” stuff because it took too long – so they turned it into a separate mini-pod! Listen in for updates on where T. Greg’s been, the newest member of his family, philanthropy updates, and the four-alarm Twitter dumpster fire known as the Vic Mignogna LOLsuit and The Threadnought™!

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Show Notes:

• The thread on T. Greg’s foray into death abatement (Twitter)
• Meet Biscuit, the newest member of Team T. (Twitter)
• The final result of our American Heart Association fundraiser! (Twitter)
• The Threadnought™ needed its own navigation thread (Twitter)
• T. Greg’s interview with The Violet Wanderers podcast! (BuzzSprout)

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Join us this week as we go over the extended political f*ckery happening in Virginia, yet another conviction vacated in Indiana because of prosecutorial misconduct, and officer-involved puppycide in California, Florida, Illinois, and Indiana.

Special thanks to AY Shah on Twitter for providing the inspiration for this week’s cover art!

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Anon, Trey Benfield, Rob Elder, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, Colleen Mahaney, Charlotte Mobley, and Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• Virginia Governor apologizes for appearing in blackface + KKK photo… (Washington Post)
  • …then says it wasn’t him (Virginian-Pilot)
  • …but was called “Coonman” in college (WSLS 10)
  • …and dressed in blackface at a party (The Hill)
• Virginia Lieutenant Governor is accused of sexual assault… (NY Times)
  • …by two different women (Washington Post)
• Virginia Attorney General meets with black legislators to confess he dressed in blackface too (Washington Post)
• Next in line for Virginia Governor? The Republican Speaker of the House (Twitter)
• Seventh Circuit: Attempted murder conviction of Mack Sims overturned after prosecution hid that key witness was hypnotized (ProPublica)
  • The 7th Circuit’s opinion in Sims v. Hyatte (Justia)
  • Our episode last week on Fred Clay, who was also convicted by hypnosis testimony (Fsck #91)
  • Our earlier episode on prosecutorial misconduct in Elkhart (Fsck #77)
• ARIZONA: Glendale PD officer Matt Schneider helps tase innocent passenger Johnny Wheatcroft 11 times, including in the testicles (KNXV 15)
• CALIFORNIA: Contra Costa County judge Charles Treat denies police union’s demand to block new transparency law (Mercury News)
• CALIFORNIA: Unnamed police officer in Kern County summarily executes his police K-9 Defender (KBAK 29)
• COLORADO: Internal investigation concludes Denver PD broke the law in arresting newspaper editor for filming police (Colorado Independent)
• FLORIDA: Broward County deputy James Cady on bodycam berating, assaulting black father holding a 1-year-old (Miami Herald)
• FLORIDA: Polk County deputy Scott Cronin summarily executes police K-9 Recon (WFLA 8)
• ILLINOIS: Unnamed Mount Carmel PD officer summarily executes victim’s service dog during response to burglary (Mt. Carmel Register)
• INDIANA: Laurel PD officer Clinton Ellis pleads guilty in puppycide death of K-9 Blade, gets probation (Batesville Herald-Tribune)
• LOUISIANA: New Orleans man wanted for murder tries to turn himself in, jailers refuse to book him without proper ID (New Orleans Advocate)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Unnamed Boston PD officer meets up with 2 prostitutes, gets his gun stolen (WPRI 12)
• MICHIGAN: Evidence from murder cases discovered in home of unnamed, retired Detroit officer during eviction (The Detroit News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Grifton PD officer Jason Lovick charged with 8 counts of kiddie porn (Durham Herald-Sun)
• TENNESSEE: Nashville jailer Oluwatobi Ola gets anger management class after being caught on video pepper-spraying inmate for no reason (Nashville Tennesseean)
• TEXAS: Houston drug raid that killed Navy veteran Dennis Tuttle, Rhogena Nicholas, and their dog was based on fake intel; at least one officer suspended (Houston Chronicle)
  • Our episode on the botched raid (Fsck #91)
• TEXAS: Montgomery School District Police need a better decorator (Twitter)
• VIRGINIA: Capitol Police Sergeant Robert Stamm, tasked with monitoring anti-Northam protests, suspended for being a white nationalist (NY Times)

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Join us this week as we talk about Florida police lying to jail a man for possession of laundry detergent, Missouri police lying to cover up the shooting death of a cop by another cop, North Carolina police lying to keep an innocent man in prison for 42 years, and much (much) more!

*THANK YOU* to this week’s Show Note Sponsors (Anon, Trey Benfield, Rob Elder, Melanie Greenan, Judi Kane, Colleen Mahaney, Charlotte Mobley, and Michael Teal) and our #Law140 Lovers (Damien Boyd, Brian Gilbreath, Andrew Murphy, Erica Phillips, Helen Poston, Joe Sevits, and Michael VanOrder)!

Show Notes:

• 4th Circuit: Charles Ray Finch, who’s spent 42 years of his life in prison for murder, is actually innocent (4th Circ COA)
• Vera Institute releases new tool to analyze arrest data, shows ~80% of all arrests are for minor offenses or non-criminal conduct (The Intercept)
• COLORADO: Lakewood PD officer Randall Shaun Butler charged for *3rd* sexual assault (KRDO 13)
  • Story on Butler’s first arrest (Denver Post)
  • And on Butler’s second arrest (Denver Post)
• FLORIDA: Martin County Sheriff’s Deputy Steven O’Leary fired for framing 11 people for drug possession (Miami Herald)
• GEORGIA: Albany PD officer Matthew Brown on video crashing into parked car while trying to murder man in parking lot (WALB 10)
  • The bystander video showing Brown’s crash (Twitter)
• KANSAS: Taxpayers to pay $1,100,000.00 to Richard Jones, who served 17 years for robbery he didn’t commit (ABC News)
• LOUISIANA: 5 deputies indicated in rape and beating at Washington Parish jail (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore police declare they will continue arresting people for cases the DA won’t prosecute (WMAR 2)
• MASSACHUSETTS: Fred Clay spent 37+ years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, taxpayers to pay $1,000,000.00 (WGBH 89.7)
• MISSOURI: St. Louis Metro PD killer cop Nathaniel Hendren executes off-duty SLMPD cop Katlyn Alix (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • After claiming it was an “accident,” police then say it was “Russian Roulette” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • And police claim the hospital wouldn’t honor a warrant for drug testing the killer cop (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Bryson City cops spend 6 months investigating glass pipes, brag about it (Raleigh News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD officer Michael Santiago charged with sexual battery for groping woman (WSOC 9)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Fayetteville PD perv cop Wade Lane Lee Jr. kills himself after molesting child (Fayetteville Observer)
• SOUTH CAROLINA: Massive exposé on state’s asset forfeiture system shows how system benefits police, screws taxpayers (Greenville News)
• TEXAS: Houston police summarily execute middle-aged couple Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas in botched drug raid (Reason)

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Surprise! It’s a new Fsck as we work on getting back into a production routine. Join us this week as we talk about a weird qualified immunity ruling from the US Virgin Islands, taxpayers shelling out $$$$$ for police f*ckery in California and New York, and two separate Pennsylvania officers from different departments in the same county both charged with sexually assaulting a half dozen women.

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Show Notes:

• 3rd Circuit: Qualified immunity for CBP agents who illegally searched vacationers’ cruise cabin (3rd Circ COA)
• ARIZONA: Tuscon PD officer Richard Daniel fired, arrested for sexual assaulting suspect (KTVK 3)
• CALIFORNIA: Jury awards $360,000.00 to family of Connor Zion, who died while Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Higgins repeatedly stomped on his head (Orange County Register)
• FLORIDA: Republican legislators try to limit impact of Amendment 4 by demanding payment of exorbitant fines from ex-felons (WLRN 91.3)
• FLORIDA: Miami-Dade PD had proof 15-year-old Deandre Charles was innocent, indicted him for murder anyway (Miami New Times)
• GEORGIA: Muscogee County judge blasts DA’s Office after Stanley Andrews is jailed for 3.7 years without trial (WRBL 3)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago man Geraldo Iglesias, framed by CPD detective Reynaldo Guevara, exonerated after spending 17 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit (BuzzFeed News)
  • Our episode on Guevara framing Geraldo Iglesias (Fsck #72)
  • And framing Thomas Sierra (Fsck #47)
  • And framing Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes (Fsck #42)
• MARYLAND: Baltimore police beat, arrest teenager trying to record them arresting innocent party after report of a fight (WBAL 11)
• MICHIGAN: Northville firefighter Patrick Nolan uses *helicopter* to stalk ex (WDIV 4)
• MISSOURI: St. Louis grand jury looks into perjury charge against DA Kim Gardner in case against former Gov. Greitens (KMOX 1120)
  • Our episode on the indictment against Greitens, later dismissed (Fsck #53)
• NEW YORK: NYC bicyclist Charles Puccio awarded $2,250,000.00 for injuries in attack by NYPD detective Noel Lawrence (Gothamist)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Ashley PD officer Mark Icker arrested for sexually assaulting female drivers (WNEP 16)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Wilkes-Barre PD officer Robert Collins arrested for raping 4 women (WNEP 16)
• TENNESSEE: Chattanooga PD officer Benjamin Piazza suspended with pay after being caught on video beating compliant driver (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

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We’re snowed in here in Durham! Join us as we talk about the flurry of sentencing memos in the Trump-Russia investigation, an 8th Circuit decision to incentivize police dishonesty, and a “Good Guy with a Gun” getting shot by police in Alabama and California and Louisiana!

#Law140 will return eventually! Until then, make sure to check out our page on Patreon for exclusive patron-only content! Then join the conversation by following @fsckemall on Twitter, and tweet us your comments and questions using the hashtag #fsck!

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Show Notes:

• Lots of sentencing memos out this week!
  • Michael Cohen @ Russia Investigation (DocumentCloud)
  • Michael Cohen @ New York Investigation (DocumentCloud)
  • Michael Flynn (DocumentCloud)
  • Michael Flynn Supplement (DocumentCloud)
  • Paul Manafort (DocumentCloud)
• Russians were in contact with at least 14 Trump campaign operatives (Washington Post)
• James Comey testifies to Congress (Vox)
  • Comey Hearing Transcript (House Judiciary)
• Gen. John Kelly, garbage pile in human form, is out as Chief of Staff (NY Times)
  • Our episode where I forewarned you Kelly was a scumbag (Fsck #19)
  • …and where he lied about a Gold Star widow and a Congresswoman (Fsck #33)
  • …and where the Inspector General confirmed Kelly broke the law (Fsck #48)
  • …and where Kelly publicly defended domestic abusers (Fsck #51)
  • …and where Kelly argued making kids into orphans was cool (Fsck #64)
• Eighth Circuit: Officer lied at trial, but arrest was still legal (8th Circ COA)
• Study: nearly half the country has a family member in jail (Washington Post)
  • The full incarceration report (FWD.us)
• Survey: contraband brought into jails via staff, not visitors (Prison Policy Initiative)
• ALABAMA: Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., summarily executed by Hoover PD at mall, was shot in back while trying to help panicked shoppers escape (NY Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Sacramento law enforcement charged protestors stabbed by Neo-Nazis at protest, let attackers go free (UK Guardian)
• CALIFORNIA: Sheriff’s deputy Ron Helus, trying to save patrons in Thousand Oaks massacre, killed by other police (KTLA 5)
• COLORADO: Westminster PD cop Curtis Arganbright gets 90 days in jail for raping handcuffed woman (KRDO 13)
• DC: Unidentified DOJ staffer sexually assaulted staff, allowed to resign (The Hill)
• FLORIDA: Miami taxpayers to shell out $1,300,000.00+ settlement to Taiwan Smart, jailed for 19 months for murders he didn’t commit (Miami New Times)
• FLORIDA: Monroe County Sheriff tried to deport American citizen to Jamaica over weed (Miami Herald)
  • Our episode on ICE routinely deporting Americans (Fsck #61)
• GEORGIA: Grantville PD officer James Christopher Holmes indicted for incest (Newnan Times-Herald)
• ILLINOIS: Chicago PD officer on video repeatedly beating unarmed, restrained 16-year-old boy with handcuffs (Reason)
• INDIANA: Elkhart PD officers Cory Newland and Joshua Titus charged with assault for beating handcuffed man (South Bend Tribune)
• LOUISIANA: Federal agent shot twice by New Orleans PD while walking back to hotel (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
• MICHIGAN: Wayne County Sheriff’s Office seizes woman’s car over $10 of weed (Reason)
• NEW YORK: NYPD police on bystander video repeatedly trying to rip 1-year-old child from mother’s arms (Politico)
• NEW YORK: Sunray TX police chief Timothy Dean, officer Bron Bohlar indicted in murder of Sodus NY couple (WHAM 13)
• NORTH CAROLINA: NC State Highway Patrolman Jonathan K. Whitley decides to randomly share racist thoughts on Instagram (Durham Herald-Sun)
• OHIO: Former Cuyahoga County Judge Lance Mason indicted in murder of ex-wife (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• OREGON: Hillsboro PD officers raid classroom with rifles drawn, over verbal argument between students (Portland Tribune)
• OREGON: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler demanded reporters sign non-disclosure agreements and let police review articles on them (Willamette Week)
• OREGON: Massive $10,000,000.00+ settlement in jail dehydration death of Madaline Pitkin (The Oregonian)
• PENNSYLVANIA: Grand jury issues scathing report on police incompetence, interference by union (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• TEXAS: US Border Patrol officer Juan David Ortiz officially indicted on capital murder (Laredo Morning Times)
  • Our earlier episode on Ortiz’s killing spree (Fsck #82)
• TEXAS: Records expunged for “San Antonio Four,” exonerated after spending 15+ years in prison for assault they didn’t commit (San Antonio Express-News)
• VIRGINIA: Prominent Neo-Nazi Alex McNabb works as a taxpayer-funded EMT in Patrick County (HuffPost)
• WEST VIRGINIA: State Trooper Derek Walker, already on leave for beating a teenager, subject of lawsuit and internal investigation over other incidents (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
• CANADA: Toronto PD officer Vittorio Dominelli resigns after eating pot brownie and radioing for medical help (CBC)
• FRANCE: Paris riot police force schoolkids onto their knees with hands on their heads for protesting (Sky News)
• UK: London police release video showing them running over moped thieves for sport (UK Independent)

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We’re back (again)! Join us this week for an unusually-good-news-filled episode, as dirty cops in Florida and New Jersey are sentenced to federal prison while several more have been indicted in California, Maryland, and Texas! Plus quite a bit more!

#Law140 will return eventually! Until then, make sure to check out our page on Patreon for exclusive patron-only content, including a conversation with Dave and James about the midterms! Then join the conversation by following @fsckemall on Twitter, and tweet us your comments and questions using the hashtag #fsck!

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Show Notes:

• Former FBI Director James Comey nominally fights House GOP subpoena (Washington Post)
  • It looks like a compromise has been reached (Washington Post)
• North Carolina’s newest Congresscritter-elect, Republican pastor Mark Harris, engaged in voter fraud (Charlotte Observer)
• Analysis: police lose thousands of guns, many end up in hands of criminals (The Trace)
• Study: More police in schools are useless waste of taxpayer money (News & Observer)
  • Here’s Dr. Anderson’s study (University of Vermont)
• ALABAMA: Long read on the Etowah ICE detention center where guards sell contraband to inmates and commit other crimes (UK Guardian)
• CALIFORNIA: Chula Vista PD officers spend taxpayer time working on private fundraiser (Voice of San Diego)
• CALIFORNIA: Concord PD spent $$34,000.00+ of taxpayer money on idiotic lip sync video (East County Today)
• CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles PD assistant chief Jorge Villegas suddenly retires amid investigation for “improper sexual relationships” (LA Times)
• CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles County sex crimes investigator Neil David Kimball charged with tying up, raping 14-year-old girl (LA Times)
  • Similar to NYPD sex crimes investigator Nicholas McAteer (Fsck #36)
• CALIFORNIA: Trinity County Sheriff Bruce Haney leaves his job, moves to another state, still gets paid (Sacramento Bee)
• FLORIDA: Former Biscayne Park PD chief Raimundo Atesiano sentenced to 3 years in federal prison for framing innocent black men of crimes (Miami Herald)
  • Our episode on the initial indictments against Biscayne Park PD (Fsck #72)
  • And the expanded investigation (Fsck #76)
  • And the initial guilty pleas from officers (Fsck #77)
  • And the framing of Clarens Desrouleaux (Fsck #79)
  • And Atesiano’s guilty plea (Fsck #82)
• FLORIDA: Miami PD officer Roberto Destephan records himself ranting about Jewish Scripture, throwing Torah in trash (WTVJ 6)
• GEORGIA: Three lawsuits filed against the Brooklet Police Department for numerous constitutional violations (AllOnGeorgia)
  • In addition to a fourth lawsuit alleging Brooklet PD officer John Baker sexually assaulted a woman in the hospital (AllOnGeorgia)
• GEORGIA: 87 inmates file lawsuits over Gwinnett County Jail beatings (WAGA 5)
• MARYLAND: Prince George’s County PD officer Ryan Macklin arrested for raping undocumented motorist after traffic stop (WRC 4)
• MISSISSIPPI: Man wearing racist shirt at Olive Branch poll site is former Memphis PD cop Clayton Hickey, who resigned after being caught with a minor in his patrol car (WGHP 8)
• MISSOURI: Four St. Louis PD Metro officers federally indicted for brutality (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • Our episode with the arrests at this protest (Fsck #28)
  • …and the subsequent ACLU lawsuit (Fsck #33)
  • …and the federal judge that ruled police illegally targeted protestors (Fsck #39)
• NEW JERSEY: NJ Advance Media develops comprehensive database of police use-of-force data (NJ.com)
• NEW JERSEY: Former Newark PD officer Domenico Lillo sentenced to 3.5 years in federal prison for beating of Brandon Walsh (NJ.com)
• NEW YORK: NYPD officer Raymond Williams used colleague’s bodycam to record his genitals (NY Daily News)
• NEW YORK: Witness testifies in federal corruption trial to bribing high-ranking NYPD officers with prostitutes (NY Daily News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Newton Grove PD chief Everett “Frankie” Harrell charged with domestic violence for beating his wife (News & Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: State Highway Patrolman Brian Maynard delivers baby on side of highway (WTVD 11)
• TEXAS: Dallas PD killer cop Amber Guyger indicted for murder in extrajudicial summary execution of Botham Jean in his own apartment (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
  • Our episode on Jean’s execution (Fsck #82)
• TEXAS: Parker County deputy Jarrett Turner shot himself in what police chief called an “ambush” (KDFW 4)
• WASHINGTON: Seattle PD officer Adley Shepherd, fired for savagely beating a handcuffed drunk woman, is reinstated with back pay (Seattle Times)
• WISCONSIN: New bodycam footage released showing Milwaukee PD shot unarmed and compliant black man Jerry Smith Jr. for sport (Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal)
• FRANCE: Paris police beat the sh*t out of Yellow Vest protestor (Twitter)

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Join us this week on the second in our multi-part series on the Rules of Evidence, with a focus this time on the concept of “hearsay” and its crazy number of exceptions!

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Show Notes:

• Our first episode in the Evidence Basics series (Fsck #83)
• Federal Rules of Evidence 801 (LII)
• Federal Rules of Evidence 802 (LII)
• Federal Rules of Evidence 803 (LII)
• Federal Rules of Evidence 804 (LII)
• Federal Rules of Evidence 805 (LII)
• Federal Rules of Evidence 806 (LII)
• Federal Rules of Evidence 807 (LII)
• Miranda v Arizona (Oyez)
• Berghuis v Thompkins (Oyez)
• Salinas v Texas (Oyez)
• Ohio v Roberts (Oyez)
• Crawford v Washington (Oyez)
• Ohio v Clark (Oyez)