by Vincent Warren Originally published here . It is inhumane, fallible, expensive, and an ineffective crime deterrent. It is also no secret that the death penalty in the United States is carried out...
"My name is Kevin Cooper. I am a 55-year-old African American man on death row in California. I have been here, trying to prove my innocence, for 28 years. In 2004, I came within hours of being...
Achieving justice for racial discrimination has long been fraught with obstacles. During the civil rights era, it was Southern governors and school boards who blatantly obstructed court orders to...
By Vincent Warren The New York Post is having trouble understanding some basic tenets of democracy, which explains why they found my invitation for you to join us in court for today's important...
A federal appeals panel on Friday denied a request by lawyers for New York that it overturn a judge’s sweeping ruling on the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices, all but ending...
For over a decade, New Yorkers from all walks of life have brought this to Mayor Bloomberg's attention time and time again: the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practices are not only racially biased and...
By Erwin Chemerinsky November 5, 2013 Judges are human and sometimes getting caught up in the emotions of high profile cases causes them to make serious errors. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court...
Her integrity has been unfairly smeared in the wake of the stop-and-frisk ruling Last Thursday, three federal appeals court judges removed Judge Shira Scheindlin from the well- known stop-and-frisk...
New Yorkers have expressed their displeasure with the excessive use of stop-and-frisk by the Bloomberg administration. Voters were moved by this issue in the recent citywide election, a federal court...
The struggle over New York City’s stop-and-frisk practices has been a long and dramatic one, played out in the streets, in the City Council and, of late, in a series of highly unusual court...
