ALHS Legal Studies

"Reduced Self-Control after 3 Months of Imprisonment; A Pilot Study"

"n this case, the search of a robbery suspect's backpack while he was being questioned yielded a ring, a digital camera, and other items. The police warrantlessly searched the digital phone, discovering a photo of the suspect next to a firearm later determined to have been stolen. This led to two convictions: one for the stolen property and one for carrying a firearm without a license."

"North Carolina banned Packingham from using Facebook, under a law that prohibits sex offenders in the state from using a wide swath of the internet, he decided to fight back, arguing that the ban violated his First Amendment rights."

"The judge who says he's part of the gravest injustice in America"

"The four reasons people commit hate crimes"

"In a plea deal with prosecutors, former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager admitted to using excessive force in the 2015 shooting death of Walter Scott."

"L.A. riots haunt us 25 years later Joy Reid previews 'LA 92,' a new National Geographic documentary on the L.A. riots, as she and her guests discuss the aftermath of racial unrest and police misconduct surrounding this flashpoint."

""It should have been the toilet water. Just the toilet water," Lt. Kashka Meadors of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office testified on Thursday. "I instructed to have the toilet water cut off because he was flooding the toilet.""

""The evidence reviewed at this point in time by the Douglas County Attorney's Office and the OPD Senior Command (body camera video and witnesses statements) shows the officer was reasonable in his belief that he was responding to deadly force. The officer's decision to fire his duty weapon is justified.""

"Gov. Asa Hutchinson originally set out an aggressive schedule of eight lethal injections in 11 days that would have marked the most inmates put to death by a state in such a short period since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. The state set such a compressed schedule because its supply of one of the lethal injection drugs expires at the end of April."