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That Detroit Judge Suspended For Humiliating Black Teen Girl, Just Returned To Work to More Bad News
Judge Kenneth King has been demoted from hearing major felonies to handling speeding tickets.
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15-Year-Old Black Girl Humiliated by Detroit Judge Stands Claps Back…Legally
Judge Kenneth King is now facing a lawsuit filed by the teen he had placed in handcuffs and a jail uniform.
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Black Law Student in Rhode Island Says Deputy Thought She was a Defendant
Brookly Crockton posted a TikTok video detailing the experience
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Jury Selection for Jussie Smollett’s Trial Set to Begin This Week
Smollett continues to maintain his innocence, pleading not guilty to all six charges of disorderly conduct.
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Judge Shuts Down Defense Attorneys for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers
He’s playing no games about who’s allowed in his courtroom
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Virginia Judge Rules Portraits of White Judges Prevents Black Defendant From Receiving a Fair Trial
A judge in Virginia’s Fairfax County has ruled that the portraits of white judges in the courtroom prevent Black defendants from receiving a fair trial. According to the Washington Post, Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard issued an opinion on Monday saying that the portraits of the mostly white judges that have presided over…
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Murder Victim’s Sons Attack Their Mother’s Killer in Court
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by three separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders and the victims’ family, who often wish they could offer a can of whoop-ass to the defendant. This is their story. Two Ohio men furnished the plot…
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Dylann Roof to Represent Himself at Trial
Last week, Dylann Roof, the man accused of killing nine African-American parishioners at Charleston, S.C.’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015, was declared mentally competent to stand trial. On Monday, Roof was granted permission to represent himself at trial before the prospective jurors in his case were brought into the courtroom, WISTV reports. U.S. District…