Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
Can A Prosecutor Be Fired for Refusing to Violate the Law?
In 2013, Eric Hillman was employed as an assistant district attorney in Nueces County, Texas. Mark Skurka was the duly elected district attorney for…
Lame Duck Congress Faces Criminal Justice Reform Dilemma
Writing in the November 4, 2018 edition of Law 360, Michael Macagnone pointed out that the current lame duck Republican-controlled Congress has slightly more…
Corruption Prosecutions Decline Under Trump
President Donald J. Trump will have a unique place in American presidential history: the most corrupt president to ever occupy the White House, surpassing…
Excessive Force by Police Results In PTSD
On August 28, 2018, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in a police excessive force case that will not please the…
The Vanishing Criminal Trial, Justice Denied
In a November 2016 post, we made this observation about the vanishing trial in the federal court system: “ … it’s behind closed doors…
“Qualified Immunity Smacks of Unqualified Impunity”
Those words were written by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Don R. Willett in an August 31, 2018 decision—Zadeh v. Robinson. In the…
Murder Conviction of Police Officer is Rare Measure of Accountability
The August 9, 2014 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an African American, in Ferguson, Missouri by a white police officer named Darren Wilson during…
Wrongful Conviction Civil Rights Case to Proceed
There are several indisputable core facts about the case of Susan Mellen. First, the burned body of Rick Daly was found near a dumpster…
Harris County Bail Reform Effort Receives Temporary Setback
Earlier this year we posted an article about a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld much of a federal district court ruling…
Texas Has Long History of Abusing Immigrant Children
The first family detention center in the United States was opened in Berks County, Pennsylvania in 2001 when a nursing home was converted into…
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