April 09, 2020

Coronavirus Chaos (Episode 99)

48 minutes

Join us this week as we go over some of the effects of the coronavirus on jail populations in several states, the Sixth Circuit granting qualified immunity to police who abused an innocent homeowner for sport, and two separate stories of Judges Gone Wild in Illinois and Indiana!

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Show Notes:

Supreme Court affirms that the Fourth Amendment is functionally useless (The Hill)

The Court’s opinion in Kansas v. Glover (SupremeCourt.gov)

Sixth Circuit: Qualified immunity wins again, as police brutalize innocent homeowner for sport (6th Circuit COA)

ALABAMA: State’s prison preparedness plan for COVID-19 is basically “lolwut?” (AL.com)

COLORADO: Fort Carson police charge two 10-year-old boys with felonies for playing with a Nerf gun (SOCO 21)

ILLINOIS: Cook County Judge Jackie Portman-Brown reassigned after locking child in holding cell (WLS 7)

INDIANA: Judges gone wild as Indianapolis judges beat the sh*t out of a random guy in White Castle parking lot (WXIN 59)

LOUISIANA: With less revenue from traffic tickets, public defender offices face bankruptcy, furloughs (Washington Post)

LOUISIANA: ACLU sues to force release of inmates from federal prison in Oakdale, as half-dozen die of coronavirus and dozens are infected (CNN)

The first federal inmate to die of coronavirus, Patrick Jones, was sentenced for non-violent drug possession (NBC News)

LOUISIANA: State Supreme Court dismisses misconduct charges against former prosecutor who hid evidence in murder trial (The New Orleans Advocate)

NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque PD officers asked to conduct welfare check on man, say “challenge accepted!” and summarily execute him for sport (Albuquerque Journal)

NEW YORK: NYPD getting ravaged by coronavirus infections, as ~20% call out sick (WNYW 5)

NEW YORK: Rikers Island detainees now dying of coronavirus while awaiting trial (NY Daily News)

NORTH CAROLINA: Coronavirus infections explode at federal prison in Butner (News & Observer)

RHODE ISLAND: Former Warren PD officer Michael Clancy collects full pay without working for 22 years, now retires with full benefits (WJAR 10)

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