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It turns out that prosecutor outside Chicago who wanted to ignore exculpating DNA evidence also used dubious bite mark proof. After a national expert who views all such evidence as bogus highlighted the testimony of two “experts” in a case where there was later a DNA exoneration (but the defendant is being denied [...] If this family had holiday dinners, they’d be pretty difficult, Part One: “But even when their father was alive, this was not a family known for its togetherness.” If this family… Part Two: “Turns out… his father-in-law’s family was hacking his personal and business emails.” Speaking of dubious families, American Family Association founder, [...] Al Bell was a soul DJ who went into the record business and ultimately bought Stax Records, running it in the early 70s through its demise. He produced most of the Staple Singers singles there was involved in a huge growth spurt at the label. Memphis station WDIA, “widely recognized as the first [...] The Daily Journal describes the status of the dispute between Jim Hood and Stacy Pickering over paying outside lawyers, presently before the Mississippi Supreme Court. Rapper Ice Cube lays down some architectural criticism at an Eames house in Los Angeles. Longform picks its favorite long form journalism of the year. The three I’ve read [...] The prosecutor in Illinois who continued to prosecute a murder case in spite of exculpatory DNA proof is retiring under fire, says the Chicago Tribune. Ouch. From Dwight Garner’s review of a book about the olive oil business: ”These are also, sad to say, among this book’s few digestible lines. Earnest and sentimental from start to [...] What took them so long? Cosimo Matassa is going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1945, he dropped out of Tulane and opened the first recording studio in New Orleans, a studio that can contend with (and probably beat) Sun in the invented-rock-and-roll contest. Among the folks who recorded there were [...] Emily Bazelon at Slate has a piece about a Supreme Court case worth reading. The US Supreme Court reversed a 9th Circuit case involving state habeas relief for a grandmother convinced of the “shaken baby” death of her grandchild; the conviction was almost certainly wrongful, but the Supreme Court majority wanted to slap [...] A couple of weeks after being subjected to one of the most scathing United States Supreme Court arguments in history for its misconduct in failing to turn over exculpatory evidence, the New Orleans district attorney’s office faced yet another exoneration for Brady information it wrongfully withheld. This time, for good measure, two NOPD [...] |
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