Hacker News with Generative AI: Justice System

In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants (nytimes.com)
People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system.
Justice System, Texas, Law, Poverty
342 points by ceejayoz 9 days ago | 418 comments
Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It derailed a murder case (cleveland.com)
A jury may never see the gun that authorities say was used to kill Blake Story last year.
AI, Law Enforcement, Crime, Justice System
140 points by rntn 65 days ago | 155 comments
Software Bugs Led to 'One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice' (cacm.acm.org)
In a Kafkaesque nightmare come true, nearly 1,000 individuals who ran local post offices in the U.K. were wrongly convicted of stealing money from those operations between 1999 and 2015 as a Fujitsu software system known as Horizon erroneously showed imbalances in their accounts.
Software Bugs, Legal Issues, Technology, Justice System, United Kingdom
32 points by adunk 84 days ago | 9 comments
True crime stories are influencing the real-life justice system (cbc.ca)
For better and worse, a rebirth in our cultural fascination with true crime — spurred, in part, by the launch of the hit podcast Serial a decade ago — has led to changes in the criminal justice system, legal experts say.
True Crime, Justice System, Law, Media Influence
36 points by colinprince 88 days ago | 54 comments
Broward Co. to vacate convictions for buying crack made by Sheriff's Office (cbs12.com)
Law Enforcement, Justice System, Florida, Broward County
109 points by jrflowers 115 days ago | 45 comments
Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures (atlantanewsfirst.com)
With a single sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has ended a nationwide program that had seized untold millions in cash from airline passengers without arrests.
Air Travel, Law Enforcement, Justice System, Corruption
206 points by soraminazuki 116 days ago | 78 comments
Jury Nullification (wikipedia.org)
Jury nullification, also known in the United Kingdom as jury equity,[1][2] or a perverse verdict,[3][4] is when the jury in a criminal trial gives a verdict of not guilty even though they think a defendant has broken the law.
Law, Justice System, Criminal Law
96 points by amarcheschi 118 days ago | 41 comments
It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Some want that to end (text.npr.org)
It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Advocates want that to end.
Law Enforcement, Interrogations, Civil Liberties, Justice System
281 points by everybodyknows 145 days ago | 258 comments
Is it possible to have a fair jury trial anymore? (theconversation.com)
The decades-long mystery about what happened to 19-year-old Amber Haigh made it to court in New South Wales earlier this year. Those accused of murdering Haigh were found not guilty.
Law, Justice System, Crime, Australia
5 points by lr0 163 days ago | 1 comments
Clarence Thomas Thinks the Real Victims Are Prosecutors Who Engage in Misconduct (slate.com)
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in Glossip v. Oklahoma, a death penalty case posing a question so bizarre that its very existence should serve as an indictment for capital punishment: Can courts force a state to execute a possibly innocent prisoner when the state itself doesn’t want to?
Supreme Court, Capital Punishment, Justice System, Law
12 points by hn_acker 168 days ago | 5 comments
Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence (innocenceproject.org)
Mr. Williams is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24. Gov. Mike Parson has the power to stop this tragedy now.
Justice System, Missouri, Capital Punishment, Innocence Project
359 points by bjourne 190 days ago | 466 comments
Teenager jailed for 18 months still in prison 18 years later (independent.co.uk)
A desperate mother has spoken of her anguish after her teenage son was jailed for 18 months but is still trapped in prison 18 years later under a cruel indefinite jail term.
Justice System, Prison Reform, Human Rights
111 points by Brajeshwar 192 days ago | 153 comments
Executions of the conceivably innocent are no better than human sacrifice (latimes.com)
The state of South Carolina on Friday strapped down Freddie Owens and injected him with a chemical that’s usually used to euthanize pets. In the days before the execution, a key witness against him admitted testifying falsely at trial to save himself, and said Owens had nothing to do with the 1999 murder for which he was convicted. But that didn’t matter. Owens, also known as Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, was put to death.
Capital Punishment, False Testimony, Justice System, South Carolina
23 points by YeGoblynQueenne 193 days ago | 29 comments
Cop Who Lied to Justify Drug Raid Says He's Not Responsible for Resulting Deaths (reason.com)
This week, nearly six years after Houston cops killed a middle-aged couple falsely accused of selling heroin, a jury began considering the murder case against Gerald Goines, the former narcotics officer who instigated the deadly raid.
Police Brutality, Law Enforcement, False Accusations, Justice System
8 points by pseudolus 202 days ago | 0 comments
'Terrorgram' leaders arrested, charged (justice.gov)
The Justice Department announced today that Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho — leaders of the Terrorgram Collective, a transnational terrorist group — were charged with a 15-count indictment for soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Humber and Allison were arrested on Friday by law enforcement officials.
Terrorism, Law Enforcement, Crime, Justice System
15 points by anigbrowl 205 days ago | 0 comments
Retired detective: We got it wrong in Robert Roberson's death penalty case (dallasnews.com)
Justice System, Crime, Law Enforcement
175 points by rossant 315 days ago | 249 comments
US prisoners are given dangerous jobs. But what if they are hurt or killed? (apnews.com)
Prison Labor, Human Rights, Law Enforcement, Justice System
44 points by jawns 322 days ago | 56 comments
The justice system's role in non disclosure of Horizon material (thejusticegap.com)
Law, Justice System, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Media
30 points by chrisjj 352 days ago | 7 comments
Physically attractive attorneys tend to have greater success in federal court (psypost.org)
Law, Psychology, Social Science, Justice System
99 points by bookofjoe 355 days ago | 114 comments