Early voting in the 2018 midterms has begun! Join us this week as T. Greg talks about the items on the North Carolina ballot, an audit showing hundreds of Customs & Border Patrol officers being arrested in just two years, a California gang officer pleading guilty to accepting bribes, and teens being beaten on video in Florida, Illinois, and Virginia.
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Show Notes:
- Federal Circuit: Defendant attaches weed samples to his appeal (Federal Circ COA)
- Sixth Circuit: Police cannot commit puppycide for sport (Reason)
- The opinion in Smith v. Detroit (6th Circ COA)
- Our episode with the District Court opinion (Fsck #20)
- Analysis: Hundreds of police officers nationwide charged with on-duty rapes, “forcible fondling,” and other sex crimes (CNN)
- 500+ Customs & Border Patrol officers arrested over the past two years (NY Times)
- ARKANSAS: Astonishing Radley Balko deep dive into chronic Fourth Amendment violations by the Little Rock Police Department (Washington Post)
- ARKANSAS: State Supreme Court justices petition themselves to have ethics complaints thrown out (ABA Journal)
- CALIFORNIA: State to allow non-violent third-strike offenders to seek parole (LA Times)
- CALIFORNIA: Man released after 9 years in prison as new law dramatically limits state’s Felony Murder Rule (The Marshall Project)
- CALIFORNIA: Oakland PD officer, Alameda County gang expert Harry Hu pleads guilty to accepting bribes (The Mercury News)
- CALIFORNIA: Orange County Sheriff’s deputy Michael Devitt on video brutally beating drunk man unconscious, lies about it, cuts off bodycam when he realizes it’s recording (HuffPost)
- DELAWARE: Tiffany Reeves, mother of 3, dies in prison over unpaid fine (Wilmington News Journal)
- FLORIDA: White Coral Springs PD officer on video repeatedly punching black teen girl (Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel)
- FLORIDA: Jackson County Sheriff’s deputy Zachary Wester fired after lying on reports, 100+ cases dismissed (Tallahassee Democrat)
- ILLINOIS: Video shows off-duty Chicago PD officer shooting unarmed autistic man (UK Guardian)
- LOUISIANA: District Court Judge rules state’s split-jury law is unconstitutional (New Orleans Advocate)
- MARYLAND: Prince George’s County “Officer of the Month” Ryan Macklin arrested for traffic stop rape of undocumented immigrant (Baltimore Sun)
- MICHIGAN: Macomb County jail doctor Steven Cogswell charged for felony sex assault of inmates (WDIV 4)
- MICHIGAN: Rochester Hills firefighter Jeffrey Zeigler, who tried to kill unarmed black teen Brennan Walker for asking for directions, convicted of felony assault (The Detroit News)
- Our episode with the original story (Fsck #59)
- MISSISSIPPI: Tate County deputy orders man to stop filming police in his own home (WREG 3)
- NEW YORK: NYPD detective Nicholas DiGaudio encouraged victim to delete evidence in Harvey Weinstein investigation, hide it from DA (WNBC 4)
- NORTH CAROLINA: Bail reform in Charlotte-Mecklenburg triggers pushback (WFAE 90.7)
- NORTH CAROLINA: 4-year-old felony charges in Graham tossed after pro se, handwritten motion (Winston-Salem Journal)
- OHIO: Columbus Police congratulate themselves for not killing black boys doing nothing illegal (Reason)
- OREGON: Portland PD reveals to Mayor, City Council for the first time that Nazis were heavily armed at summer rally (The Oregonian)
- PENNSYLVANIA: All prisoners permanently banned from receiving personal mail (Bloomberg)
- PENNSYLVANIA: Penn State University uses police helicopter to break up football tailgate (CBS News)
- Bystander video of the flyby (YouTube)
- TEXAS: Dallas PD Sergeant Jamie McDonald arrested for felony child abuse in beating of 8-year-old (Dallas Morning News)
- UTAH: Qualified immunity for Ogden PD officers who broke diabetic man’s leg at hospital (Ogden Standard-Examiner)
- The trial court’s opinion in Torbett v. Ogden (CourtListener.com)
- VIRGINIA: Norfolk PD officers on video beating 16-year-old black boy, offering shifting explanations (Virginian Pilot)
- WEST VIRGINIA: Former Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry convicted on 11 of 22 federal charges (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
- Our episode on Justice Loughry’s suspension (Fsck #69)
- …and subsequent indictment (Fsck #71)
- …and testimony from the court administrator (Fsck #77)
- …and the subsequent impeachment process (Fsck #79)
- GERMANY: Police in Bad Oldesloe summarily execute 22-year-old homeless man as he runs away, for knife possession (WordPress)
- UNITED KINGDOM: Senior British police official acknowledges policing is still “institutionally racist” (UK Independent)
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