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Children and Guns: Holding Parents Accountable

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. “We don’t have strong enough laws,” Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald told reporters at a Dec. That law doesn’t require the gun purchaser to use the safety device sold with their firearm. And, there are no federal laws mandating gun storage practices after the owner takes position of a legally purchased firearm.

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The ‘Assembly-Line’ Justice of Plea Bargaining

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In 1916, at a single Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan, workers also reported almost 200 severed fingers and 75,000 other injuries. As a society, we eventually decided that faster access to Model Ts and Mustangs didn’t justify the horrific harms of the assembly line, and we passed laws and filed lawsuits to make the process safer.

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How (Some) Prosecutors Changed the Face of Justice in 2021

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Last year, State’s Attorney Kim Foxx was reelected in Chicago, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner won a second term in the city of St. Louis with 74 percent of the vote, District Attorney Mark Dupree earned another term in Kansas City, Kan.,, and State Attorney Andrew Warren was given four more years in Tampa, Fla.

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MA Record Expungement Bill Offers ‘Fresh Start’ to Juveniles

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Massachusetts already allows the sealing and expungement of some juvenile records after a period of time, but advocates are quick to note that it’s limited, and people with juvenile records still struggle to get some charges removed, while other misdemeanors don’t qualify for expungement in Massachusetts. .

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Garland Plays Chess, Trump Plays Checkers

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He would weaponize the law against his opponents as he always does—taking it to the court of public opinion. Without the law or the facts on his side, which is often what Trump is up against, he would attack his opponents instead. Trump was totally wrong and caught off guard by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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A Criminal Case Fifty Years In The Making

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Yet at the press conference and Q & A following the arraignment District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the world that the 34 felony charges brought against defendant Trump were nothing more than the Manhattan office engaging in its everyday prosecution of “bread and butter” white-collar crimes. Not the president of Ukraine.

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Victimization vs. Criminalization: The Trump Predicament 

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They prefer to falsely vilify the Democratic opposition and President Biden’s “crime family” while blaming an imaginary “deep state” and very real federal and state judicial departments for “weaponizing” the discriminatory wheels of law enforcement against the former president.

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