The world has become a much more complicated place in the modern age, especially with regard to technology and areas of expertise. The days when a jury of your peers would have sufficient knowledge of all facets of your case are gone.
If you’ve ever been a fan of legal procedural shows like Law & Order, you will be familiar with the ramifications of the exclusionary rule.
Admissible evidence is a legal term used in a court of law. It is evidence that is provided to a judge or jury. In any criminal trial, officials, for example police officers, will collect evidence as they build their case. Of course, this is the goal of the criminal justice system. However, police officers have…
Imagine coming home early one day, chatting with your husband in the kitchen when police barge in and find a 13-year-old girl in your upstairs closet. Then finding out your husband has sexually assaulted and imprisoned her. It sounds pretty unimaginable. It’s was one Kalamazoo, Michigan woman’s reality in May.
The US war on drugs, previous to the Obama administration, was something of a fixed part of American culture in the 1980s and 90s and into the 2000s. Lawmakers and those running for public office wanted to take a tough stance against the kind of violence and disarray we saw arising from the drug cartels…
Did you know that 91 people die every day from opioid abuse in the United States? From 1999 to 2015, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids quadrupled. Four times as many people die today from abusing Methadone, Heroin, OxyContin and Vicodin – for instance – than in 1999, only 17 years ago. According to the…
In 2016, a fascinating and inspiring Ted Talks video was aired called “Our Story of Rape and Reconciliation” given by Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger. The video shows Elva and Stranger taking turns sharing their story. In 1996, Stranger was an 18-year-old Australian exchange student to Iceland. He met 16-year-old Elva and they began dating.
In a fascinating piece written for The Atlantic, Eugene Soltes writes about his experience interviewing 50 white-collar criminals for his new book Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal.
Female Genital Mutilation or FGM has been in national news recently due to the Michigan’s second doctor being arrested for conducting this procedure.
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