Criminal Justice

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?

ACLU First Amendment Minute: The Highest Court in Texas
The presiding justice of the highest criminal court in Texas refused to keep the courhouse open late in order to receive a request for a stay of execution to which an inmate on death row was entitled. The result of the ethics complaint is what?

ACLU First Amendment Minute: A New Record
The USA has set another all-time record!

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Police Misconduct
Police misconduct, lying on the witness stand, in New York City has become institutionalized. Who said that?

ACLU First Amendment Minute: A Hot Stock Tip
Today, for a change of pace, we have a hot stock pick. Though the interested investor probably needs a Teflon-lined stomach.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Ed Meese
Ed Meese, Ronald Regan's law-and-order Attorney General, who once blasted the ACLU for being what he called, "part of the criminals' lobby," now is standing before the US Supreme Court, shoulder to shoulder, with the ACLU.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Tasers
Who do you think recently said the following about tasers? "I am not willing to see an individual on the 6 o'clock news bouncing around like a basketball with 50,000 volts of electricity being pumped into their body."

Poverty Is Not A Crime
In America, people should not be locked up for being poor, but they are.

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