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Tag Archives: Criminal Law

Transparency Laws Let Criminal Records Become Commodities

25 January 2022by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Sarah Lageson Wired In April 2018, Adnan (a pseudonym) was wrongfully arrested in Newark, New Jersey, on the basis of an incorrect arrest warrant. A brief period in jail led […]

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The Constitutional Right We Have Bargained Away

10 January 2022by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Carissa Byrne Hessick The Atlantic The Bill of Rights exists to protect individuals. It protects the right to free speech, the right to due process, the right to counsel, and […]

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How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer

22 November 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Raffi Khatchadourian The New Yorker On Thanksgiving morning, 1987, Rick Bart, a homicide detective in Snohomish County, Washington, got word that a pheasant hunter had discovered a body in […]

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Cases of Missing Trans People are Rarely Solved. A Married Pair of Forensic Genealogists is Hoping to Change That

9 September 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Erica Lentl Xtra They found Markham Doe among the evergreens on the east side of 11th Concession, in Markham, Ontario, on July 16, 1980. It was a humid, rainy […]

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After Crafting American Criminal Justice, Christians Keep Changing the Rules

28 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Chris Hutton The News Station In the 1640s, New England had a peculiar problem: “Something close to a bestiality panic,” historian John Murrin wrote. Teenagers were whipped, and at least […]

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Seeking the True Story of the Comfort Women

27 April 2021by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Jeannie Suk Gersen The New Yorker In January, I was outlining an article I hoped to write about a recent judgment by a South Korean court ordering Japan to […]

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Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t

21 January 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Racial Tensions in America’s ‘Sundown Towns’

14 October 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Tim Sullivan & Noreen Nasir Associated Press Ask around this time-battered Midwestern town, with its empty storefronts, dusty antique shops and businesses that have migrated toward the interstate, and […]

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The Little Cards That Tell Police ‘Let’s Forget This Ever Happened’

4 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Katie Way Vice Mike, a white man in his 50s, was in a bad spot: He was stuck idling in traffic on New York City’s Riverside Drive, running late […]

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This City Stopped Sending Police to Every 911 Call

27 July 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Christie Thompson The Marshall Project On a rainy June day, the manager of a Motel 6 outside Olympia decided one guest had to leave. The woman had been smoking […]

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