FERGUSON PART V: WHY OFFICER WILSON WAS JUSTIFIED IN SHOOTING AN “UNARMED” MAN
Much of America, including CNN’s Attorney Sunny Hostin, can’t seem to grasp how Officer Darren Wilson could have been justified in shooting an ostensibly unarmed man. If Ms. Hostin got through law school without...
WARNING SHOTS?
National Public Radio just did this story on the International Association of Chiefs of Police conditionally approving warning shots, which have long been verboten in American police work. Not mentioned in the article is...
WHAT TO SAY AFTER A SELF-DEFENSE SHOOTING
Conventional wisdom has long held that after a self-defense shooting, the shooter should say nothing to police except, “I want a lawyer.” The problem with that is, it’s exactly what genuine bad guys say...
AND NOW, FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT…
Among other things, regular readers here know that (A) I don’t usually host guest blogs and (B) as sort of the “resident cop” in the Backwoods Home writers’ stable, I frequently visit criminal justice...
SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN PERUTA
Well, damn.
We’d all had hopes that the current Supreme Court of the United States would review and overturn the Peruta decision, in which the Ninth Circuit had upheld the right of California authorities to...