Kamala Harris Was a Tough-on-Crime Prosecutor in a Black Lives …
WEBJan 22, 2019 · Yesterday, a few Americans spent the day giving thought to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many took advantage of the holiday to relax. On morning television, Senator Kamala Harris, a California Democrat, chose to invoke Dr. King’s legacy while announcing her bid for president in 2020. If elected, Harris would be the first Black ...
The Power of Sheriffs: Explained - The Appeal
WEBJan 4, 2019 · Similarly, sheriffs today sometimes use their power to excess, violating civil liberties. In Worth County, Georgia, in 2017, the sheriff subjected up 850 high school students at Worth County High School, nearly the entire student body, to invasive drug searches, including checking inside their underwear, according to court documents.
Harmless Error: Explained - The Appeal
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Incarcerated Transgender Women’s Lives Must Matter
WEBJan 28, 2019. When Kamala Harris announced her run for president on Jan. 21, a reporter asked her about the 2015 case of Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, a trans woman incarcerated in California’s prison system who petitioned prison officials to grant her request for gender affirming surgery. In 2015, Harris was California’s attorney general and ...
How Eviction Courts Stack The Deck Against Tenants
WEBApr 13, 2021 · Stage Two: Serving Notice and Summons to Appear in Court. If the issue is not resolved by the specified time, then the landlord will file what’s called an “unlawful detainer action” against the tenant in eviction court, formally asking the court to force the tenant to leave the property. Before that happens, courts must provide tenants ...
The Criminalization of Homelessness: Explained - The Appeal
WEBJun 29, 2018 · The most straightforward path to ending the criminalization of homelessness runs through state legislatures. State and local officials should refrain from passing new laws that target homeless individuals, and they should repeal existing laws that criminalize life-sustaining and necessary behaviors.
Bail Reform: Explained - The Appeal
WEBJun 14, 2018 · Jessica Brand, Jessica Pishko. Jun 14, 2018. In San Francisco, 64-year-old Kenneth Humphrey spent a year in jail, held on a $350,000 bond he could not pay, after being accused of entering a man’s home and stealing $7 and a bottle of cologne. In setting Humphrey’s bail amount, the trial court made no inquiry into his ability to pay or any ...
People Of Color Receive The Harshest Punishments, And The …
WEBDec 4, 2019 · Spotlights like this one provide original commentary and analysis on pressing criminal justice issues of the day. You can read them each day in our newsletter, The Daily Appeal. A new report from the Council on Criminal Justice takes a close look at the rates of incarceration for different racial groups. While disparities have gone down, Black and Latinx people continue to be incarcerated at ...
My Year As A New Orleans Consent Decree Insider - The Appeal
WEBJul 30, 2019 · Now, as New Orleans’s consent decree winds down, two NOPD officials who led its implementation, former Superintendent Michael Harrison and Murphy, have been hired by the Baltimore Police Department. Harrison is commissioner, and Murphy is deputy commissioner of its Compliance Bureau, in charge of …
Judge Denies ‘Stand Your Ground’ Defense For Alabama ... - The …
WEBA judge has denied an Alabama woman’s claim that she acted in self-defense under the state’s Stand Your Ground law when she killed a man in her home in January 2018.