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‘Search Warrants Rot Law Enforcement’: Paper

The Crime Report

“When police rammed the door of Breonna Taylor’s home and shot her six times in a hail of thirty-two bullets, they lacked legal justification for being there,” Blanche Cook, the paper’s author, details. All of this can be traced back to the Supreme Court’s legal doctrine that created the conditions for this botched search warrant execution.

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Why Do We Treat Sex Crimes Differently Than Other Violent Crimes?

The Crime Report

The article suggests that it is now time to critically examine whether sex crimes should be treated differently than other violent assaults and calls for a further examination of the impact the treatment of sex crime actually has on the legal system.

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“Without any Doubt, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Beyond any Doubt”: Tribe Declares Trump Committed Attempted Murder

JonathanTurley

There is also no compelling legal basis for the claim. You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that. You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that.” ” I guess there is no doubt. ” Braxton v.