Category: Civil Rights

FBI MICROSCOPIC HAIR ANALYSIS 90% WRONG

The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

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POLICE USING NOISE BLASTS TO COMBAT PROTESTORS

During protests in New York City over the past several weeks, a distinct piercing sound could be heard for the first time in this city. The noise, a high-pitched beeping noise, was being emitted from a long-range acoustic device that can shriek repetitive blasts of noise at a volume of up to 152 decibels.

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KNOCK, KNOCK, IT’S THE POLICE: A CRIMINAL LAWYERS’ ANALYSIS OF OVERZEALOUS SEARCHES AND YOUR EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY

You are minding your own business, double parked, engine running, while waiting for your friend to run into Chipotle and pick up some burritos. A police officer approaches you and tells you that you are parked illegally. He starts asking you questions……do you have to answer him? Can you drive away? What if he wants to search your car? Should you let him? Can he search it without your permission? If he chases you, do you have to stop?

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