Judge drops malicious prosecution from Debra Milke lawsuit
"A U.S. District Court judge in Phoenix on Monday dismissed major portions of a civil-rights lawsuit filed against Phoenix police and the Maricopa County attorney by Debra Milke, who spent 24 years behind bars before her murder conviction was thrown out.
Judge Roslyn Silver said Milke's lawsuit can go forward against the former Phoenix police detective who claimed to extract a confession from her, however, and against other retired Phoenix police officers and the department as a whole.
When reached for comment, Milke told The Arizona Republic that she had not yet read the judges order..."
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news...-malicious-prosecution-claim-tossed/78648432/
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Dont mess with Texas, where law is hard, mistakes common
"WASHINGTON, Feb 6 Among the 3,000 counties that make up the United States, there is one in Texas where its best not to mess with the law, because justice is hard and mistakes are common.
Harris County has executed a record 125 people since the US Supreme Court overturned the death penalty in 1976.
The best answer I know is that its a huge county four million people thats very conservative, in an active death penalty state, and for a long time had a notoriously blood thirsty DA, Samuel Gross of the University of Michigan law school told AFP.
Home to the sprawling city of Houston, Harris County accounts for nine percent of all modern US executions.
It has executed more people than that any of the 31 states which administer the death penalty, except for the state of Texas as a whole..."
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2016/02/dont-mess-with-texas-where-law-is-hard-mistakes-common/
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A New York village that installed a ring of license plate scanning cameras in hopes of improving policing has found the monitors have become something of a double-edged sword
"FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) When this Long Island village switched on its "ring of steel" last fall, it knew it was getting a potent policing tool. The system of 27 cameras would scan the license plate of every single vehicle that rolled into town. If a wanted criminal drove through, the system would sound an alert. If someone burglarized a house, the data could be mined to see who was on the road at the time.
Police weren't prepared, though, for the firehose of less-valuable intelligence generated by the $750,000 system.
Since the scanners went live Nov. 2, they have been triggering an average of 700 alarms a day, mainly about cars on the road with expired or suspended registration stickers. Officers have impounded 500 vehicles. They've written more than 2,000 court summonses, mostly for minor violations...
In January, an officer responding to an alert about a stolen car discovered that the man behind the wheel, Tremain Williams, was wanted for killing a man in Norfolk, Virginia. Police found an M-4 assault rifle in the trunk. Williams has pleaded not guilty; his attorney declined to comment.
In its first 90 days of operation, 15 stolen cars were spotted and returned to their rightful owners.
About two dozen other crime suspects have been arrested, including two men suspected in a series of armed robberies who were in a stolen car as well as a man wanted for allegedly burglarizing local churches...."
http://www.usnews.com/news/technolo...e-readers-a-double-edged-sword-for-ny-village
Sounds good to me.
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