April 09, 2018

Judge Dredd Was A Documentary (Episode 58)

1 hour 19 minutes

We’re back! Join us this week as we cover EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s assorted ways of wasting your tax money, along with full-length coverage of killer cops in New York, Oregon, and Texas, wrongly convicted black men being released in California and Michigan, and assorted other criminal justice f*ckery across the country!

Then, in a brief #Law140, we talk about “Restatements” and why they matter!

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Show Notes:

Trumpkin EPA administrator Scott Pruitt stays in lobbyist’s DC house (Washington Post)

And blows $5,500.00+ *per day* on security (CNN)

Plus $43,000.00+ on a phone booth in his office (The Hill)

Then demoted anyone who questioned his spending (NPR)

8th Circuit: No qualified immunity for repeatedly punching compliant man in face and testicles (8th Circ COA)

8th Circuit: But qualified immunity for breaking mentally ill man’s arm, beating him with nunchucks, tasing him repeatedly (8th Circ COA)

Deep dive on the frequency of eviction proceedings, and their devastating impacts (NY Times)

Long-read on the dangers of private prisons (NY Times)

And on how the mentally ill are treated while incarcerated (UK Guardian)

Exposé on how your federal government betrays informants, deports them to their deaths (ProPublica)

ICE Director apologizes for posting anti-Muslim meme on social media (BuzzFeed)

IRS agent James Clarke got a 21-year-old intern drunk, shoved his gun in her mouth, and raped her at gunpoint (Boston Globe)

CALIFORNIA: Gardena PD officers Carlos Fernandez and Edward Arao federally indicted for illegal firearm sales (LA Times)

CALIFORNIA: Sacramento County deputy caught on video running over woman trying to cross street during Stephon Clark protest (Sacramento Bee)

CALIFORNIA: Jamal Trulove awarded $10,000,000.00+ after police framed him for murder (SFGate)

GEORGIA: Molena police too frail to subdue 70-year-old man, shoot him to death instead (WXIA 11)

IOWA: Supreme Court allows innocent people to challenge their guilty pleas in court (The Gazette)

The Court’s opinion in Schmidt v. Iowa (Justia)

KENTUCKY: Louisville man repeatedly fires gun at police, resists arrest, still alive (WLKY 32)

LOUISIANA: LA is one of only two states that allow criminal juries to convict without a unanimous vote; blacks disproportionately harmed (The Advocate)

LOUISIANA: New bodycam footage confirms killer cop Blane Salamoni should have been prosecuted in execution of Alton Sterling (The Times-Picayune)

MARYLAND: Silver Springs PD officer Jose Barahona arrested for stealing oatmeal, condoms from Wal-Mart (Washington Post)

MICHIGAN: 71-year-old black man Richard Phillips exonerated after being framed for murder, serving 45+ years (MLive.com)

MISSISSIPPI: 53% of gang members in the state are white, but 100% of gang prosecutions are black or Hispanic (Jackson Free Press)

NEW JERSEY: Gloucester Township PD officer John Flinn charged for beating 13-year-old girl (WCAU 10)

NEW JERSEY: Jersey City PD officers Rodney Clark and Courtney Solomon assaulted Domino’s manager over late pizza (Newsweek)

This has happened in New Jersey before (Fsck #22)

And in Missouri (Fsck #28)

Police prefer terrorizing BBQ shops in North Carolina (Fsck #2)

NEW YORK: NYPD summarily executes Saheed Vassell for holding a shower head (NY Times)

NEW YORK: Corrections officer Alain Samba “accidentally” shoots, kills woman “while cleaning gun” (WPIX 11)

NEW YORK: NYPD cop Richard Hall, who raped handcuffed teenage girl, is also f*cking the prosecutor! (NY Post)

We first mentioned this story here (Fsck #31)

Hall claimed the rape was “consensual” (Fsck #33)

We covered the indictments here (Fsck #36)

NEW YORK: Police arrest ill 15-year-old girl who had permission to leave school, detain her for 7 hours (NY Daily News)

NEW YORK: Republican Congresscritter and Drug Warrior Dan Donovan exploits position to bail out son-in-law during drug bust (NY Post)

NORTH CAROLINA: New Asheville PD footage shows Officer Chris Hickman’s beating of Johnnie Rush was as bad as claimed (Asheville Citizen-Times)

The Asheville City Council has fired the City Manager (Asheville Citizen-Times)

We first mentioned this story a few weeks ago (Fsck #54)

And also covered some of the fallout (Fsck #55)

NORTH CAROLINA: Report by Durham police chief confirms officers used to violate citizens’ rights in traffic stops (Durham Herald-Sun)

OKLAHOMA: Norman PD shows proper process for addressing officer-involved shootings (NewsOK.com)

OREGON: Newspaper places lien on public official’s house for court-ordered lawyer bill (Columbia Journalism Review)

OREGON: Portland PD does Judge Dredd-style summary execution of man in homeless shelter (The Oregonian)

TEXAS: Video footage released of indicted Fort Worth police officer Jon Romer punching hospital patient in the face (KXAS 5)

TEXAS: Bodycam footage released of Pasadena PD officer defending himself from gun-wielding driver (KHOU 11)

VIRGINIA: Deandre Harris has been acquitted of assaulting scumbag supremacist (and NC lawyer) Harold Crews (Washington Post)

We talked about “citizen warrants” in this #Law140 on Deandre Harris’s case (Fsck #32)

WASHINGTON: Attorney who shot at another attorney’s office busted for running meth lab (The Oregonian)

AUSTRALIA: Victoria police caught on CCTV video savagely beating man during “mental health check” (The Age)

The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws

The American Law Institute

ALI’s List of Restatements

Cornell Law Review article on §557 of the Restatement (First) of Contracts

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