In 1977, Reynaldo Rodriguez shot and killed a man as part of an ongoing family feud. It was a man named Robert Cuellar, whom he believed had shot at Rodriguez’s mother and brother. At the time, Rodriguez was 19 and had a young son. The judge gave him a choice after he pleaded guilty to…
Have you or has anyone you know been a victim of excessive force? Police arrested an 18-year-old man on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor using a taser on March 16, 2017. The man was running away from police and was the subject of a felony warrant.
Why would anyone want to plead guilty to a four-year felony drug charge if they knew it wasn’t the crime they had committed? This is what happened to David A. Dabrowski, 65, of Bangor Township, Michigan. In 2015 police raided David and Sandra Dabrowski’s home after having been tipped off by an anonymous person that…
What happens when an innocent person is wrongly accused of a crime? More times than we would like to think, innocent people find themselves behind bars. The loss that these individuals have experienced is hard to wrap one’s mind around. Sadly, the punishment does not end once out of prison. The Innocent Project describes it…
Immigration has been a huge topic of conversation and controversy for the last several weeks. Both have been catapulted after President Trump signed his executive order banning refugees from 7 nations and stopping the in-flow of all refugees for four months. President Trump has long promised to stop the flow of all illegal immigrants into…
Do U.S. citizens have the right to protest? When does the act of protest cross the line into terrorism? Public attention has turned to the events of April 19, 1997 after the death of James Nichols on February 14, 2017. He was the brother of Terry Nichols and was arrested along with Timothy McVeigh. His…
It’s impossible to ignore what’s going on in the United States in the last week with regard to President Trump’s executive order halting our nation’s refugee program and banning the acceptance of any more refugees from 7 Muslim majority countries. There is already much debate and conflict over the order and, rather than add a…
Why would anyone who has evidence stacked against them consider pleading not guilty in court? You may be asking yourself that question while reading the latest news in the proceedings against Dr. Larry Nassar. Nassar was a doctor at MSU’s sport-medicine clinic from 1997 until last September. He was a long-time volunteer for USA Gymnastics…
What does it mean to have one’s sentence commuted or pardoned? You might be wondering this if you’ve been listening to the news in the last few weeks.
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