In an apparent bid to avoid missing a six-year statute of limitations, the Wisconsin Department of Justice recently filed felony charges against a man who mailed a threatening letter to a judge in 2012. Prosecutors apparently obtained DNA from the back of the stamp,...
Month: October 2018
‘Making a Murderer’ lawyers start new forensic science nonprofit
Did you know that multiple studies have shown that faulty, unscientific or exaggerated forensic science is a major cause of wrongful convictions? According to the National Registry of Exonerations, improper or invalid forensic science has been discovered in...
Could a parking violation put you at risk for arrest?
Imagine you're out on a freezing January evening in Milwaukee. You stop at a liquor store, momentarily parking your car while you run inside. Unfortunately, you park less than 15 feet from an unmarked crosswalk.The worst you could get is a $30 parking ticket, right?...
Federal court: Searches at the border must still be reasonable
In 2015, Abdisalam Wilwal, Sagal Abdigani, and their four young children were heading home after visiting Canadian relatives when they stopped at the Portal, North Dakota, border station. They are both U.S. citizens and married. Shortly after handing over their...
Let’s eliminate juvenile life without parole in the federal system
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Alabama that sentencing juveniles to mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole violates the 8th Amendment's mandate against cruel and unusual punishments.This is because mandatory life without parole...