Category: Criminal Justice

Aug 10, 2016 5:39 AM

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Accusations of spying by FBI, U.S. Attorney’s Office dissolve amid generous plea deals

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Weeks after being accused of spying on the defense in a $55-million Medicare fraud case, the Miami U.S. Attorney’s Office gave all three defendants generous plea deals that closed the case and made the misconduct accusations go away.
Jul 22, 2016 5:16 AM

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Secret U.S. Marshals’ report ID’d security weaknesses at Broward courthouse before escape

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A confidential U.S. Marshals’ security assessment for the Broward County Courthouse exposed numerous weaknesses in the building’s security system four years before last week’s scandalous escape of a 21-year-old murder suspect.
Jul 18, 2016 5:14 AM

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Broward medical examiner’s evidence policy worries prosecutors, defense lawyers

By Eric Barton
FloridaBulldog.org
The Broward County medical examiner has been destroying some tissue and blood samples after they are a year old, a policy defense attorneys and prosecutors say could affect untold numbers of criminal cases.
Dec 14, 2015 5:40 AM

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Broward prosecutor: BSO’s probation plan jeopardizes safety, victim’s rights

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In a challenge to judicial authority, the Broward Sheriff’s Office is again pushing a scheme that would allow BSO, not judges or state law, to determine the reporting terms for county court defendants placed on probation.
Jul 31, 2015 1:11 PM

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The FBI built a database that can catch rapists — almost nobody uses it

By T. Christian Miller
ProPublica
For roughly 30 years the FBI has virtually ignored a system meant to help cops track the behavioral patterns of violent criminals.
Jul 20, 2015 2:08 PM

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Evidence of police dishonesty leads to overturned convictions nationwide

By Nancy West
VTDigger.org
Maybe Debra Jean Milke masterminded the murder of her tow-haired son Christopher in Phoenix just before Christmas 1989 to collect the 4-year-old’s $5,000 life insurance policy. Or maybe – as Milke has insisted all along – she was just the innocent victim of a corrupt cop with a proven pattern of lying who was out to win a conviction.