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Expungements: How Clean Are "Clean Slates"?Are case records ever really sealed or expunged from potential employers?
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Ohio BMV made $250 million over past decade selling personal information from driver, vehicle records to third partiesOhio’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles made more than $40 million last year selling personal information from driver and vehicle records to third parties.
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D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is calling for a change in leadership at the troubled Department of Forensic Sciences.DC Attorney General calls for ‘immediate’ change in leadership at troubled crime lab
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Remember the "deep fake cheerleader mom"? Prosecutors now admit they cannot prove fake-video claims.Prosecutors admit they have no proof of the deepfake video claims against cheerleader mom
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Jake Wagner pleads guilty to all charges and will testify against his family to avoid death penaltyPike County Rhoden Murders: Baby's father pleads guilty, will testify against family
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Still Can't BreatheOfficers continue to use chokeholds — which can be deadly and are explicitly prohibited by the department — on civilians, while officers with substantiated claims of abuse go without any meaningful punishment.
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Defense Challenges Marsy’s Law ‘Right’ of Accuser to Sit with ProsecutorThe Ohio Supreme Court will consider whether an accused’s constitutional rights to a fair trial are violated when the alleged victim sits at the prosecutor’s table during the trial.
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Ohio Will No Longer Sentence Kids to Life Without ParoleOhio is expanding access to parole hearings for people who have been incarcerated ever since they were children. Changes take effect retroactively
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New Ohio law puts drug, alcohol rehabilitation ahead of jail timeNew law requires judges to hold a hearing if a defendant applies for intervention and claims drug or alcohol abuse were a factor leading to the crime.
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What’s Really in the First Step Act?What would the bill actually do? Our Attorneys have taken a closer look...
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USING DNA TO SKETCH WHAT VICTIMS LOOK LIKE; SOME CALL IT SCIENCE FICTIONBut critics say the company is promising more than science has determined it can deliver. Dr. Yaniv Erlich, a computer science professor at Columbia University who studies genetics, said the idea that phenotyping could meaningfully predict something as complex as individual looks is “on the verge of science fiction.”
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CAN COPS FORCE YOU TO UNLOCK YOUR PHONE WITH YOUR FACE?Could officers force someone they’ve arrested to look into their phone to unlock it?
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THESE BUGS ARE THE MOST GRUESOME CLUES IN FORENSIC SCIENCEBodies are ripe “to be colonized by plants and animals,” Goff wrote, like volcanic islands freshly erupted from the sea.
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THE TROUBLE WITH DOUBLE JEOPARDY-ONE OF THE MOST WELL-KNOWN AND MISUNDERSTOOD CONCEPTS IN AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW.Double jeopardy cases try to make sense out of the jury system—which often makes no sense.
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WHY POOR, LOW-LEVEL OFFENDERS OFTEN PLEAD TO WORSE CRIMESA study of the impact of bail fees concluded that “those who can’t afford bail are 13 percent more likely to be convicted and will receive incarceration sentences that are on average five months longer.
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FORMER COPS HEADED TO PRISON FOR FALSE POLICE REPORTSBoth officers were convicted by a jury of making false statements in police reports, after cruiser video obtained by the man's defense counsel were turned over to the prosecution.
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PEOPLE CAN BE CONVINCED THEY COMMITTED A NON-EXISTENT CRIME IN JUST 3 HOURSNew research has shown that over the course of just a few hours, innocent adults can be convinced that they committed a crime, even if that crime was completely made up
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MAN IS RELEASED FROM PRISON AFTER 15 YEARS WHEN DNA TESTING POINTS FINGER AT HIS BROTHERAfter serving more than 15 years in prison for the slaying of his teenage sister-in-law, a Kansas man was freed Tuesday because recent DNA testing pointed the finger at his brother.
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THE AGE OF 'PRE-CRIME' HAS ARRIVEDLos Angeles is considering sending “Dear John” letters to the homes of men who solicit prostitutes hoping the mail will be opened by mothers, girlfriends or wives.
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HOW CAMPUSES DEAL WITH SEXUAL ASSAULTJudges across country overturning university decisions that punish men accused of sexual assault
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