Tag: criminal justice system

Postponed is not abandoned. That is the motto of District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

It is impossible to exaggerate the danger ... when dysfunctional institutions coexist with an unscrupulous leader whose behavior is clearly sociopathic.

But in the courtroom, the rules of the game are different than in increasingly populist American politics.

The United States is typically a leader in due process and criminal prosecution.

Trump wants people to believe that the American justice system is biased. It is not.

More [federal executions] were carried out under Donald Trump than any other president in the past century.

There are not that many countries where a 17-year-old kid can legally carry a rifle, and probably even fewer countries where he can go out armed, kill two people in the street and then be acquitted.

The acquittal is befuddling. If not the first charge, the second or third should have stuck.

The new law prohibits most citizen's arrests, excepting ones made by store owners who catch customers stealing their products and by off-duty police officers.

The issues of race relations and gun control intersect too often.