by Jo Ellen Nott
On November 11, 2022, three former Sharon Park police officers pleaded guilty to lesser charges in the death of an eight-year-old girl killed in the crossfire between them and two teenagers after a high school football game in August of 2021. The cops each pleaded guilty ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a bombshell report on October 13, 2022, revealing that the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department “systematically violated criminal defendants’ Sixth Amendment right to counsel and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law” ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On September 16, 2022, attorneys from the Civil Rights Clinic of the Georgetown University Law Center filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against Governor Greg Abbott (R) and the Texas Department of Safety in the case of Rohn M. Weatherly. Texas retroactively adjusted Weatherly’s ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On October 26, 2022, defendant Nicholas Rodean was sentenced to 240 days of home confinement for his participation in the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Rodean, 29, had been convicted in July 2022 of a felony and six misdemeanors in conjunction ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On October 20, 2022, a little over a year after it was convened, the seven-member Audit Design Team released its report with the recommendation to re-review 100 in-custody deaths and autopsies in Maryland. The team was convened after 400 medical experts raised concerns about Dr. David ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On February 23, 2022, Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Honas “used excessive force multiple times” on a 12-year-old autistic boy who was running away from foster care. The Kansas Commission on Peace Officers’ Standards and Training (“KCPOST”) officially reprimanded Honas on August 22, 2022, but did ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On September 27, 2022, Alachua County in north central Florida made history by funding equitable sentencing software for Florida’s Eighth Judicial Circuit. This makes the Eighth the first Florida judicial circuit to take an historic step forward to improve its case management system and plea-bargaining ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On September 21, 2022, United States District Judge Raymond P. Moore denied qualified immunity to defendant Matthew Grashorn, a Loveland, Colorado, policer officer who shot a family pet seconds after being called to an empty parking lot to investigate an allegation of dumpster tampering.
Police ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Yareni Rios Gonzalez of Greeley, Colorado, was struck by a train in Platteville while sitting detained in the back seat of a patrol car that inexplicably had been left on the railroad tracks of a train crossing. Rios Gonzalez had been ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Current Los Angeles County sheriff Alex Villanueva has done nothing to clean up rampant gang activity within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (“LASD”) since being elected to the post in
2018. Despite his campaign promises to purge the LASD of gangs, not only has Villanueva protected the ...
