Daniel Perry's pardon makes a mockery of the right to self-defensereason.com Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took a tactic from the progressive prosecutors he claims to fight against.
Billy Binion
Journalist. Criminal justice & government accountability. Yes, this is my real name.
He was sentenced to a decade in prison for having unlicensed weaponsreason.com A New York City man was sentenced to a decade in prison after a jury convicted him of a slew of violent felonies. But there were no victims and there was no violence.
Supreme Court rules no due process right to preliminary hearings in civil asset forfeiture casesreason.com The cars of two Alabama women were seized for more than a year before courts found they were innocent owners. The U.S. Supreme Court says they had no constitutional right to a preliminary hearing.
Murder rates are plummeting. What should we make of it?reason.com In data from over 200 cities, homicides are down a little over 19 percent when compared to a similar time frame in 2023.
Florida man's tall grass saga comes to an endreason.com After six years, two lawsuits, and harrying legal wrangling over a $30,000 fine for tall grass, Jim Ficken can finally breathe easy
Florida man's tall grass saga comes to an endreason.com After six years, two lawsuits, and harrying legal wrangling over a $30,000 fine for tall grass, Jim Ficken can finally breathe easy
DeSantis signs bill banning lab-grown meat in Floridareason.com While the governor framed the legislation as necessary to protect Floridians from "the global elite," he's the real authoritarian.
She only served 10 months behind bars. Florida still slapped her with a $127,000 bill.reason.com Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.
Marvin Guy, who shot a cop during a no-knock raid, is found guilty of murderreason.com He is not the first defendant that has struggled to reconcile the controversial raids with self-defense.
Security guard says Dallas officers knelt on him, mistook him for violent crime suspectwww.dallasnews.com Silvester Hayes alleged in a federal lawsuit that officers Holly Harris, Walter Paul Guab and about eight others kicked, punched and tased him, and dislocated...
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