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Paul Butler speaking in San Francisco in 2020 By Jake Wylie and Koda Slingluff WASHINGTON D.C. – In an August 23 essay, Georgetown law professor and former prosecutor Paul Butler explained how prosecutors are driving mass incarceration– and how they could be helping the problem instead. The essay came as an installment in the Brennan Center for Justice’s Punitive Excess series, which features...

MOUNT VERNON, Ind. (WEHT)- They came together to hold candles, sing, and pray for their friend, brother, and colleague. Just over a week after deputy Bryan Hicks was shot and critically wounded outside of a New Harmony home, law enforcement joined community members outside the Posey County courthouse Sunday night. Indiana State Police Trooper Alexander Vennekotter called Sunday’s vigil a powe...

U.S. Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM A novel consumer protection ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a Federal Trade Commission settlement have in-house counsel at consumer-facing companies and the corporate defense lawyers who represent them gearing up for battle.

Haitian-Americans chant during a demonstration at the JFK Federal Building in Boston on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. Members of Boston’s sizable Haitian community staged a protest outside the Federal building to denounce the mistreatment of Haitian migrants at the border with Mexico. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds) (THE CONVERSATION) The U.S.’s top envoy to Haiti resigned abruptly on Sept. 22, 2021, over...

LEESVILLE — Crawford County law enforcement officers are seeking a man who fled the scene of a crash late Sunday evening. As of 10:50 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 26, the sheriff’s office did not have any new information about the situation. A spokesman for the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office said a male subject was involved in a single-vehicle crash along State Route 598 just north of Leesville Ro...

Until we add Marsy’s Law into Tennessee’s State Constitution, we really have no enforceable rights at all. Guest Columnist David Toney lives in Lenoir City, Tennessee. His father, Tom, was murdered in 1994. In 1994, just six months after I moved to Tennessee, my dad, Tom Toney, was kidnapped and murdered in Kentucky. His killer climbed in my dad’s van and forced him at gunpoint to drive to a...

MENOMONIE (WQOW) - A "law enforcement incident" is occurring Sunday night on I-94 near County Highway B in Menomonie, according to the Department of Transportation, affecting all traffic lanes in one direction. The DOT has not given details as to what the incident entails. The Dunn County Sheriff's Department would not give a comment at this time. The DOT is advising eastbound drivers to take...

On September 22, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) issued an invitation for public comments as part of its first “preliminary” rulemaking activities. Established by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ballot initiative last November, the CPPA has the authority to write rules that address some of the most technical and controversial topics addressed in the CPRA. The CPPA’s r...