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Ohio man found innocent on rape charge
It took a Madison County jury just 14 minutes to find an Ohio man innocent on charges of rape and criminal deviant conduct.
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Scott Greenfield
14 minutes to not guilty verdict in rape case. Deft was in prison on drug charges, still found more credible by jury than accuser.
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Will SCOTUS Be Manipulated?
Having spent a couple years now telling anyone who would read her columns that the Supreme Court was nothing more than some political hackary, with illegitimate justices sitting in stolen seats, do…
An Existential Crisis Of The Hoi Polloi
Reading the thoughts of an academic can be taxing enough, but when the academic is a philosophy prof, it can be brutal. This became clear when I tried reading some of the public writings of NYU phi…
Court Sides With Prison Guards Who Forced Female Inmates To Expose Genitals During Training Exercise
The search raised Fourth Amendment concerns.
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Scott Greenfield
Female prisoners told to strip naked and submit to anal and vaginal searches. Why?? Training exercise for cadets.
7th Cir. (Easterbrook) : No harm, no foul.
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Police fear ‘suicide by cop' cases. So they've stopped responding to some calls
To avoid officer-involved shootings and "suicide by cop," some California law enforcement agencies no longer handle calls about lone people acting suicidal.
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Scott Greenfield
"The answer she received was startling: Deputies were no longer responding to calls like hers, because the situation could end as a “suicide by cop.”
WTF? Yet another chance cops won't take. h/t @rcjparry
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ABA Resolution 114: It’s Not Dead Yet (Update)
Lara Bazelon twitted that the ABA Criminal Justice Section unanimously voted to withdraw its support for Resolution 114 and ask the House of Delegates to table it. Great news, certainly, but this m…
The El Paso Shooting Revived the Free Speech Debate. Europe Has Limits.
France and Germany both prize freedom of expression, but history and experience have led them to impose greater limits on speech than in the United States.
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Scott Greenfield
Oh, New York Times, how far you've fallen.
nytimes.com/2019/08/06/wor… pic.twitter.com/upMRkdA7D4
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Quintez Cephus says returning to college is his top priority after not guilty verdict
The wide receiver said going back to school is his first priority after a jury last week found him not guilty of sexual assault charges.
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Scott Greenfield
After acquittal for false rape accusation, Quintez Cephus's top priority is to be readmitted to UW. Now it's up to Andrew Miltenberg @NMLLPLaw to make that happen.
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ABA Resolves You’re Guilty of Rape
It was only a few years ago when the woke at the American Law institute tried their darndest to change the model penal code to make every defendant a rapist if someone said so. Sure, it’s iro…
Is "Unreasonable Cajoling" Sexual Assault?
Across the country, universities are enforcing definitions of sexual assault that are so vague that they are blurring the line between consensual sex and sexual assault. Penn State University is locked in litigation over its definition of sexual...
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Scott Greenfield
The issue in the Penn State case was changing the definition of rape from "coercion" to "cajoling" after the fact.
But is "cajoling" sexual assault under any circumstances? Can there be such a thing as "unreasonable cajoling"?
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California universities face class-action suits by students accused of sexual harassment
The University of California was hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging denial of due process, a month after a similar suit was filed against the Cal State system.
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Scott Greenfield
Class action against the CA universities for their horrendous due process denials. to male students under Title IX.
Cal universities are among the worst violators of constitutional rights in the name of "victims."
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Cephus Denied Discovery For “Victim’s” Privacy and Decency (Update: Not Guilty)
Star University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus is on trial. No wait, that’s former wide receiver, as he was thrown off the team upon the accusation, ending his college football car…
Assault charges dropped against boy after classmate suffers dodgeball injury
The prosecutor dropped the charges against the 10-year-old boy. The alleged victim suffered a concussion as they played a dogeball-like game, and according to his mother.
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Scott Greenfield
10-year-old charged w/ assault in Detroit for being too good at dodgeball.
Prosecutor, thankfully, dropped the charges.
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Anniversary
FIRE’s 20th Anniversary Celebration Join us in New York City on Thursday, October 24, 2019 to celebrate 20 years of FIRE. Twenty years ago, Harvey Silverglate and Alan Charles Kors opened up the doors to a small nonprofit in Philadelphia to answer...
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Scott Greenfield
Just heard from @glukianoff that @TheFIREorg's 20th Anniversary Celebration is Oct 24th in NYC.
Black tie optional. No word about shoes. Tickets here.
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Roman numerals, anyone? Poll suggests bias against Arabic numerals
Who knows exactly what a new poll says about mathematics in America, but the reactions to a recent poll on the topic are a little alarming. When CivicScience, a Pittsburgh-based market research firm, polled more than 3,200 Americans on the issue of...
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Scott Greenfield
Poll of more than 3,200 Americans on math instruction showed 56% said Arabic numerals should not be taught in schools; 29% said it should, 16% offered no opinion.
So Roman numerals it is. You can't make this shit up.
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Stressed at the airport? Meet the 'unicorns' providing therapy at SFO
Whereas petting most dogs working at airports is strictly forbidden, members of the Wag Brigade wear blue vests that urge "pet me!"
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Scott Greenfield
Stressed at SF airport? Problem solved!
"Enter the Wag Brigade, San Francisco International Airport's very own fleet of volunteer therapy dogs."
Plus, the world's first ever airport therapy-pig!
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Returning Due Process to Campus
The latest federal court decision in a campus sexual assault case is a reminder that accused students deserve a fair hearing.
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Scott Greenfield
NYT & WaPo: If we never mention the 7th Circuit's Title IX decision, it's as if it never even happened, right?
city-journal.org/john-doe-v-pur… twitter.com/kcjohnson9/sta…
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Berkeley votes to rename manholes gender-neutral ‘maintenanceholes’
Unanimous vote will amend city code terms.
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Scott Greenfield
Berkeley City Council votes to rename "manholes" to gender neutral "maintenanceholes" to reflect "awareness of transgender and gender-nonconforming identities" recognizing "the importance of non-binary gender inclusivity."
So, who wants to go down?
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Seeing France’s Wild Mountains Through a Clouded, Classic Windshield
The Citroën 2CV seemed like the perfect car for a road trip through the Cévennes region. And in its own slow, cranky way, it was.
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Short Take: The Hampster Chronicles
Branding consultant Carol Blymire posted serial twits about a fascinating thing she watched. For the conveniently cynical, it may be that this never happened, but I prefer to accept its accuracy be…