Category: Law
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Finkelstein to feds: “Please do something” about improper police interrogations in Broward
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate what he called the Broward State Attorney’s “long, distressing history” of condoning police use of “threatening, improper interrogation techniques.” -
No charges in Coconut Creek police misconduct case; prosecutors OK with enhanced interrogation
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
A Coconut Creek police officer who held an activated Taser stun gun at the ready while questioning a frightened 19-year-old theft suspect he made stand in a bathtub won’t be charged with a crime. Civil rights advocates call the police interrogation of Blake L. Robinson a disturbing example of police misconduct akin to torture. But Broward corruption prosecutors did not see it that way. -
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Has Obama Kept His Open-Government Pledge?
By Jennifer LaFleur
ProPublica
After eight years of tightened access to government records under the Bush administration, open-government advocates were hopeful when Barack Obama promised greater transparency. Four years later, did the president keep his promise? -
Grand jury: Miramar police justified in brothers’ shooting deaths, but one’s death “inadvertent”
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Two years ago, Miramar police shot to death two brothers in a residential parking lot during a nighttime drug investigation. Now it turns out that one of the men – shot six times – was killed by mistake, according to a Broward County Grand Jury report. -
Coconut Creek cops won’t be prosecuted for passing law enforcement computer data to friend
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
The Broward State Attorney’s Office has declined to prosecute three Coconut Creek police officers mixed up in a scheme to improperly access confidential law enforcement databases for personal reasons. -
The other crucial civil rights case the Supreme Court will be ruling on
By Suevon Lee
ProPublica.org
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear two cases challenging state and federal laws which prevent the legal union between same-sex couples. But it’s not the only significant civil rights case the Court has decided to take up this term.
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