Legal News Roundup: August 19th, 2016

19 August, 2016

Making A Murderer‘s Brenden Dassey’s Conviction Overturned  Brendan Ray Dassey, of Netflix’s Making A Murderer, is going to be a free man in 90 days. Federal Judge William Duffin ordered Dassey’s release after determining that Dassey’s confession was coerced and his case was mishandled by thre...

Legal News Roundup: August 12th, 2016

12 August, 2016

Let’s take a look at this week in legal news. Inmate Allowed to Meet Newborn Son Last week, we had not one, but two stories about pants. Remember Judge Amber Wolf, who called out prison officials who sent a woman to court without pants and denied her feminine hygiene products? The video of Wolf’...

Legal News Roundup: August 5th, 2016

5 August, 2016

Let’s take a look at this week in legal news. Pants and Christ Wu Liangshu, BBC You know it’s going to be a weird week when the first stories you read are about pants – more specifically, the lack thereof. Firstly, a defendant appeared in a Louisville, Kentucky court without any pants on. Judg...

The science of victim-blaming and how attorneys can fight back

29 July, 2016

Last month a former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was given a light jail sentence for sexual assault of an unconscious woman. A couple weeks ago, two black men – Alton Sterling and Philando Castile– were fatally shot by police, the first while immobilized and the second during a traffic ...

Legal News Roundup: July 29th, 2016

29 July, 2016

Let’s take a look at this week in legal news. Reagan Shooter To Be Released Failed assassin John Warnock Hinckley Jr is set to be released on August fifth, thirty-five years after he attempted to kill U.S. President Ronald Reagan. District Judge Paul Friedman of the District of Columbia ruled ...

The American Arbitration Crisis: Mandating Injustice

22 July, 2016

At the same time that the Supreme Court is upholding all-things-arbitration, buckets of evidence are surfacing about the arbitration system’s mind-boggling failures. State judges admit to backing the Supreme Court’s decisions only while holding their noses, while consumer advocate groups whip up pub...