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Judge Dredd Was A Documentary (Episode 58)

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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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