SCOTUS REVIEW IS SOUGHT FOR 2 ONLINE FREE SPEECH CASES, ONE INVOLVING STUDENTS AND...
A Sobering Tale of Innocence, of Jailhouse Violence & Other Must Reads
IS LOUIS GONZALEZ III A CALCULATING MONSTER IN A BANKERS’ SUIT—OR AN INNOCENT MAN SET...
Monday SCOTUS Codifies the Old Saw “Money Talks.” Literally..
The same group of five Supreme Court justices that gave us Citizens United have used the First...
LA Press Club Awards: WitnessLA Wins 1 (& Places in 2 More)
The 53rd Annual LA Press Club Awards were held on Sunday night at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel...
Warden for Notorious Angola Prison Argues for Release of the Elderly and Ill
This week Louisiana passed a new bill that will allow some of the state’s elderly prisoners ...
True Crime Saga: The Whitey Bulger Arrest
NINJA REPORTERS Congrats to Andrew Blankstein and Robert Lopez for their very cool scoop breaking...
Federal Judge Calls War on Drugs A Failure
A FOURTH CIRCUIT JUDGE GETS FED UP On June 19, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a...
Flogging for Flogging, Deporting Dreamers, & More Justice-Related Must Reads
IN DEFENSE OF FLOGGING Suddenly everyone has taken notice of Peter Moskos new book, “In...
The $1 Bank Robber: A Health Care Story
North Carolina man, James Verone, 59, had always been a low-key working man and had never before...
The Supremes, Wal-Mart & Class Action Suits….And the Cost of the Death Penality
THE SUPREMES THREW OUT THE GIANT CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST WAL-MART, & THE NY TIMES & THE...
LA County’s Juvenile Probation Camps Get Two Troubling Report Cards
Two recently released reports raise a string of questions about the progress made—or lack...
Rest in Peace, Dearest Clarence. There is No E-Street Without You
Bruce Springsteen’s long time sax player and friend of 40 years, Clarence Clemons, died on...
What the Newest Field Poll Favoring 3-Strikes Reform Really Means
On Thursday a new Field Poll was released that indicated Californians favor a reform of the...
California in State of “Political Paralysis” Over Prison Reform
WHY ARE WE SO STUCK? While policymakers from both sides of the aisle in conservative states such as...
Judge Walker NOT Too Gay to be Impartial After All
One more small step for sanity was taken Tuesday as U.S. District Chief Judge James Ware ruled that...
Working on a story that I’ll post late today.
UPDATE: The story mentioned here is being delayed one more day. Lots of other issue to discuss in...
Too Gay to Judge: Can Vaughn Walker Judge Prop 8?
On Monday a Federal judge heard arguments about why Judge Vaughn Walker, the retired chief justice...
Should the Sheriff or LA County Probation Supervise New Parolees?
This question, which was supposed to be heard Tuesday (today) at the LA County Board of...