Burning Questions
In Law & Disorder, we chronicled the story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas in 2004 for the arson murder of his three […]
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From a poem by anti-Nazi theologian Pastor Martin Niemoller: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak [...]
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I don’t have an answer. It seems pretty clear at this point that no one else does, either. I just [...]
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My friend Stephen Hunter is the Pulitzer Prize-winning former film critic for The Washington Post and bestselling author of the Bob [...]
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One more thought about gun control and the Constitution. Among the staunchest legal defenders of the Second Ammendment is Supreme [...]
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This latest time, it was a community college in Oregon, but as we’ve seen so many times already, it could [...]
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s initial punishment to Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Rice for admittedly beating his finance unconscious: two-game suspension. [...]
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On the morning of June 28, 2007, we awoke to learn that a man had died in Tennessee overnight. And, [...]
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Jeni Schmidt Cosgrove is a dear friend whom we met under some of the most tragic circumstances possible. In our [...]
More Stupid Educator Tricks
As much as we support law and order, we've always believed that the one-size-fits-all approach of Zero Tolerance makes no sense. But now it's being […]
More Stupid State Legislator Tricks
This past Saturday, newly elected Georgia Republican State Representative Sam Moore gathered at the Simply Southern Restaurant in Cherokee County to apologize to about 60 […]
Justice From The Twilight Zone
If there was one subject that preoccupied Rod Serling, the late creator of The Twilight Zone, it was justice - legal justice, social justice, personal justice, […]
Patterns
UPDATE: On February 26, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the bill that would have legalized discrimination for "religious reasons."
In criminal investigation we look for patterns. […]
Serial Killer or Serial Liar?
Ever since Miranda Barbour, the so-called "Craigslist Killer," claimed to have participated in somewhere between 22 and 100 satanic murders, people have been asking us […]
Where Do They Think Felons Come From?
We think we have been pretty evenhanded in discussing gun control and what steps can be taken to curb gun violence. We have acknowledged that […]
Sending a Message to Predators
We are not advocates of vigilante justice. Its history in the United States and elsewhere is not an attractive one. But there are occasions when […]
Legalizing Discrimination in Kansas
BREAKING (or, at least, BRUISING) NEWS at the end of this Post.
What is going on in Kansas?
This past Tuesday, the Kansas House of Representatives passed […]
Capital Punishment: What is the Governor's Role?
With all that we've been writing about false convictions, we can certainly understand Washington State Governor Jay Inslee's announcement this week that he will issue […]
Bad Convictions: A Call to Action
In the world of criminal investigation, when the same thing or something similar happens repeatedly, we call it a pattern, it becomes a call to […]
An Unusual Woman
Last week, 59-year-old Suzanne Basso was executed through lethal injection by the state of Texas for the 1998 murder of Louis "Buddy" Musso. She was […]
Security at Sochi
Last week I attended a briefing on "Terrorist Threats and Risks to the Sochi Winter Olympics," sponsored by George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute. […]
The Disgrace of Italian Justice
Now is not the time to present all of the evidence proving that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are completely innocent in the brutal murder […]
Statement on the Verdict in the Knox-Sollecito Retrial
On January 30, following the guilty verdict in the retrial in Florence of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, this statement was released by the authors […]
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