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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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A Criminologist Assesses the ‘Racketeer-in-Chief’

The Crime Report

In a forthcoming (May 2022) book, Criminology on Trump, I have marshalled the mens rea type of evidence that I hope prosecutors and the Department of Justice will consider in charging Trump and his associates with a variety of white-collar crimes. Several weeks after losing the 2020 election, on Jan.6, Gregg Barak, Ph.D.,

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A Case of Hope Over Experience: The J6 Referral Falls Short of a Credible Criminal Case

JonathanTurley

Of course, to raise obvious legal barriers to prosecution today is to invite an Internet flash mob accusing you for being an insurrectionist or fellow traveler. Likewise, experts like legal analyst and Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade told MSNBC viewers that Trump could be charged with manslaughter for riot.