RM102: Acquitted Of A Crime, Still Serve Time

With just a little over a week before Thanksgiving and the start of the crazy holiday shopping season, here is Registry Matters 102. Larry gives us a rundown of the NACDL conference in Las Vegas representing NARSOL.; Graph of how SCOTUS Justices have voted – just wanted Larry to offer some ideas; Schumer wants better access to the Feds registrant information; Comparing active shooter drills to fire and nuclear bomb drills; Massachusetts and part of Texas are grappling with indigent defense; How do polygraphs work? They don’t. This poligrapher believes the machine is real; Sen Schumer wants better background checks; nearly $64,000 spent in Operation Hallowed Streets in Florida to find 118 people with mostly technical violations; Even if you are acquitted of a charges, you can still service time (for the remaining charges); Everyone is coming out of the woodwork to sue the Epstein estate; Criminal justice reform continues to find opponents; Our criminal justice system is doing exactly what we’ve asked for; Larry explains why we didn’t do DNA testing for the death row inmate in Georgia; A total garbage news segment from KYMA with demonstrably false information; Police captain arrested in prostitution sex sting from his own department. We should afford him the same presumption of innocent that we ask for.

[24:45] https://theappeal.org/massachusetts-highest-court-is-urged-to-address-a-crisis-in-indigent-defense/
https://www.texasobserver.org/potter-county-criminal-defense-system-is-lambasted-in-a-new-report/

[32:20] https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/how-do-lie-detectors-actually-work/

[38:20] https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/91260-us-sen-schumer-calls-on-doj-to-implement-better-employment-background-checks

[41:45] https://patch.com/florida/brandon/operation-hallowed-streets-checks-5-000-sex-predators

[45:00] https://theappeal.org/you-can-be-sentenced-even-if-you-were-acquitted/

[52:55] https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2019/11/12/boies-schiller-sues-jeffrey-epstein-estate-on-behalf-of-3-sexual-abuse-accusers/

[55:00] https://dailygazette.com/article/2019/11/12/local-opposition-mounting-to-criminal-justice-reforms

[58:40] https://theintercept.com/2019/11/09/criminal-justice-mass-incarceration-book/

[1:04:35] https://reason.com/2019/11/14/georgia-has-executed-a-death-row-inmate-without-dna-testing-the-evidence/

[1:08:50] https://www.kyma.com/news/released-to-reoffend-news-11-investigates-the-sex-offender-next-door/1142347283

[1:14:30] https://wreg.com/2019/11/16/police-captain-arrested-in-own-departments-prostitution-sting/

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