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		<title>Disasterously Faulty Forensics, Shuttered Courts and Bad Sentencing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Taylor Walker

DID A DECADE OF FAULTY FBI FORENSICS RESULT IN HUNDREDS OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS? 
Defendants across the U.S. were left in the dark about the DOJ&#8217;s knowledge of  nine years worth of faulty FBI forensics.  Justice officials defended their actions saying that they were only legally obligated to inform the prosecutors, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Must Reads: The LAPD Makes an Enlightened Move,  SCOTUS Deals With Cocaine&#8230;&amp; More</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Celeste Fremon and Taylor Walker

LAPD SAYS IT WILL HAVE SEPARATE AREA FOR TRANSGENDERED INMATES IN POLICE LOCK-UP
Last Thursday night, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck announced a newly crafted, and hearteningly enlightened policy toward transgender people&#8212;including a separate LAPD lock-up,  the first in the nation.  The new policy takes a hugely significant step in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Must Reads: Cop Mini-Cams, LWOP by Another Name &amp; More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Taylor Walker &#38; Celeste Fremon



WILL SAN JOSE COPS WEAR MINI-CAMS FOR WATCH-DOGGING PURPOSES?
San Jose&#8217;s Independent Police Auditor wants her city&#8217;s cops to wear small cameras in order to keep the San Jose PD officers accountable for such things as &#8220;curb sitting&#8221; minorities over minor traffic stops and for unnecessary uses of force.  Joe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Nash Issues Order to Open Juvenile Dependency Court&#8230;and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Juvenile Court Presiding Judge Michael Nash did a brave and important thing on Friday&#8212;and then again on Monday.  On Friday he issued a draft order to open the Juvenile dependency courts to the press, allowing fresh air into a system in Los Angeles County that has long been disastrously closed.  Then on Monday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Cal ACLU Files Big Federal Law Suit Against Sheriff&#8217;s Dept. for Jails Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Wednesday morning, The ACLU of Southern California filed a federal class action suit  against the Los Angeles Sheriff&#8217;s Department with the idea of getting a sharp-toothed federal injunction that will force the department, at legal gunpoint, if necessary, to make the changes necessary clean up its desperately troubled jails.
The suit makes it clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Study Shows Why AB 12&#8212;Set to Begin Jan 2012&#8212; is So Urgently Needed</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/courts/2011/admin/study-of-las-foster-care-crossover-kids-brings-grim-news-a-sliver-of-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Last year, California legislature passed AB 12, the bill that gives another three years of  aid  to the young men and women who &#8220;mature out&#8221; of foster care.
The measure hopes to fix one of the largest problems in California’s foster care system—namely the fact that foster care kids are cut off from nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abusive Spousal Support&#8230;.Realignment Panic&#8230;&amp; the GOP on Criminal Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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CALIFORNIA WOMAN FORCED TO PAY HER ABUSIVE HUSBAND SPOUSAL SUPPORT?  REALLY? 
What is this judge thinking?  ABC news has the report.  Here are the details:
She was forced to have sex with him, and now she&#8217;s being forced to pay his bills.
Crystal Harris of Carlsbad, Calif., had been financially supporting her unemployed, abusive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 8 Defenders May Get &#8220;Standing&#8221; in Court (Should We be Sad or Happy?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In answer to the above question&#8230;..it&#8217;s complicated.
 However, before we discuss the implications of Tuesday&#8217;s California Supreme Court hearing, here&#8217;s what the LA Times and the NY Times reported on the basic facts of the matter.
First the LA Times:
The California Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to rule that the backers of Proposition 8 and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Walker NOT Too Gay to be Impartial After All</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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One more small step for sanity was taken Tuesday as U.S. District Chief Judge James Ware ruled that retired Judge Vaughn R. Walker did not have to defend the impartiality of his ruling on Proposition 8 just because Vaughn is gay (and has a&#8212;gasp!&#8212;long-term partner).
And, yes, the decision will set a precedent, thankfully, that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Ends Don&#8217;t Justify the Means:  Rethinking the American War on Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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REASON MAGAZINE TAKES ON THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Maybe this is a Nixon Goes to China moment, but, right now, some of the more persuasive voices attempting to rethink the US&#8217;s incarceration-policy-on-steroids are coming from the conservative side of the discussion.
An excellent case in point is the specially-themed July issue of Libertarian-leaning Reason Magazine, with its [...]]]></description>
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