A Missouri prosecutor was set to argue that Marcellus Williams had been wrongly convicted. New evidence that prosecutors had mishandled the murder weapon got in the way.
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“The suspensions happened immediately and it was without any due process.”
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D.C. police assaulted Gaza war protesters and strangled them with their own keffiyehs, a lawsuit alleges.
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As a U.S. senator, Harris pushed criminal justice reforms. Will she run on her ideas — or run away from them?
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“This appears to be a clear attempt to stifle both journalistic activities and pro-Palestine speech.”
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Ravil Mingazov spent the last seven years in the UAE as part of a secret U.S. deal that was said to bar further transfers with risks of abuse.
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Attorney General Andrew Bailey had argued that the state should execute Marcellus Williams without vetting evidence of his wrongful conviction.
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Sean Grayson left the Logan County Sheriff’s Office after supervisors suspected he lied on reports.
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Once the stuff of progressive pipe dreams, now even centrists like Biden are questioning the court’s outsized power.
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Sean Grayson, who is now charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, was previously discharged from the U.S. Army for serious misconduct — and still hired at six police departments in Central Illinois.
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