June 04, 2018

Back to “Normal” (Episode 68)

1 hour 26 minutes

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

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)

Our episode with the Government admitting they lacked evidence (Fsck #39)

…and the rioting charges getting dismissed (Fsck #42)

…and the jury acquitting on other charges (Fsck #46)

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)

Officer Ruben McAusland, involved in the same incident, is also indicted for dealing drugs to the FBI (NorthJersey.com)

Officers Jonathan Bustios and Eudy Ramos have been indicted for unrelated warrantless searches (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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