The Sui Generis Show - Civil Rights and Criminal Injustice

Segment One:

• developments in the Ahmaud Arbery case;

Segment Two we’ll move to part four of our five part series on field sobriety tests by examining the One Leg Stand test. 

Segment One:

• What can Columbus’s Civilian Review Board can learn from Cincinnati’s;

Segment Two: Part Three of our five part series on field sobriety tests by examining the Walk and Turn test.  

Segment One:

United States District Court issues an injunction against the Columbus Police Department;

the US Dept. of Justice investigates law enforcement across the nation;

the new federal charges issued in the Ahmad Arberry slaying.

Segment Two: Part Two of our five part series on field sobriety tests by examining the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) test.  

Segment One:

• Guilty verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial

Segment Two: Field Sobriety Testing under the current NHTSA manual, 2018 edition.   

Segment One:

• the sentencing of Marion County Judge Jason Warner and his wife after their convictions related to a 2020 hit and run crash;

Segment Two: What is “substantial compliance” and how does it affect the prosecution of OVIs in the state of Ohio.  

Segment One:

• the end of qualified immunity for NYPD officers 

Segment Two: how to defend a case of a child accuser of sexual misconduct who is too young to testify or refuses to testify.

Segment One:

• Celebrating Virginia as the first Southern state to abolish the death penalty 

Segment Two: the importance of jury selection, or voire dire, in sexual misconduct cases where the accuser is a child.

Segment One:

• The record civil settlement between George Floyd’s estate and the City of Minneapolis, breaking during jury selection during Derek Chauvin’s trial.

Segment Two: the types of forensic testing that is completed in sexual assault investigations.  

Segment One:

• Acquittal of a journalist in Iowa

Segment Two: The rights that juveniles can exercise if accused of sexual misconduct.   

Segment One:

• The  United States House of Representatives passes the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

Segment Two: Part Two of our look at Civil Protection Orders in the state of Ohio with a discussion of the constitutionality of ex parte hearings and orders and the standard of evidence necessary for a CPO to issue.