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JURIST
DECEMBER 28, 2023
.” This report emerges amidst a global discourse on government use of spyware and in the context of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act , 2023 and recently enacted criminal laws aimed at reform, which have been criticized for increasing state surveillance and being ambiguous.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2022
US District Court Judge Paul L. Hinckley was sent to a Washington D.C. Prosecutor Kacie Weston stated during Hinckley’s Wednesday court hearing that this case “has demonstrated the success that can come from a wraparound mental health system.”
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JURIST
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Despite this, there was little relief from the courts in the face of innocence claims from prisoners, which the DPIC said, “[R]ais[es] questions about the adequacy of state procedures and the ability of the system to protect innocent people.” 24 people were executed in 2023, which superseded the 18 executed in 2022.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 13, 2023
An Arlington County doctor has been convicted on all but one count of oxycodone distribution in a 21-count indictment naming her as part of decade-long drug distribution conspiracy, Salvador Rizzo reports for the Washington Post. Ball testified at her trial in U.S.
The Crime Report
JUNE 27, 2022
For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman writes that Congress and state legislatures should enact criminal laws mandating a “duty to intervene” in their colleagues’ misuse of force.
The Crime Report
JUNE 23, 2021
The paper’s author, Jacob Schuman , an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University School of Law, argues that the system of supervised release has become a “drug-control network focused on public safety” rather than rehabilitation. To put this into perspective, Schuman cites a study in Washington D.C. Can Drug Treatment Work?
JURIST
AUGUST 12, 2022
According to court documents , Robertson, 49, and co-defendent Jacob Fracker were both officers with the Rocky Mount, Virginia, Police Department and were off duty when they headed for Washington, D.C. in Robertson’s car on the morning of January 6, 2021.
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