Civil Liberties Minute episodes: Criminal Justice

Your DNA
If you voluntarily give your DNA to the police to help out in a criminal investigation, can you ever get it back?

Underreported
Here's an underreported and underappreciated lesson to be learned from the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Civil Liberties Minute: Jail for a Check?
Can you actually go to jail for depositing a legitimate check?

Civil Liberties Minute: Dominique Strauss-Kahn
What lesson is to be learned from the prosecution of Dominique Strauss-Kahn?

Civil Liberties Minute: A Lousy Spring
2011 was a really lousy spring...for the Fourth Amendment.

Civil Liberties Minute: 30 Years Behind Bars
Why would any person decline the government's invitation to walk out of prison and, instead, spend 30 years behind bars?

Civil Liberties Minute: Deporting an American Citizen
How can an American citizen be deported - from America?

Civil Liberties Minute: Jail for the Poor
Can you be sent to jail for being poor?

Civil Liberties Minute: A Book Review
As a general rule, we don't do book reviews, so an exception should be, well, exceptional. Here's a book that is.

Civil Liberties Minute: Enron Off the Hook
Why letting the Enron CEO off the hook might be a good idea.

Civil Liberties Minute: Mass Incarceration
Mass Incarceration: Is this social experiment over?

Civil Liberties Minute: Frisking Rules
A man is walking down the street at night in a high crime area. Based on the environment and the neighborhood, the police guess that he has a gun. So may they stop and frisk him?

Civil Liberties Minute: Sleeping with the Judge
Let's say after you've been convicted of a crime, your lawyer finds out that the prosecutor had been sleeping with the judge. Think you'd get a new trial?

Civil Liberties Minute: Timothy McVeigh
"Is the political environment becoming so toxic that we could see another Timothy McVeigh?"

Civil Liberties Minute: American Motorists
Are American motorists who are stopped for a speeding or another moving infraction really in favor of having their vehicles searched by the police?

Civil Liberties Minute: Voting after Crime
Let's say long ago you committed a crime, but now your kid is serving in the armed forces in Afghanistan and you own a home and work hard at a job so you pay real estate and personal taxes. Can you be denied the right to vote?