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DC Record Sealing Bill to Help Many Convicted of Minor Marijuana Offenses

Earlier this month, the DC City Council voted unanimously to advance a bill that would permit many persons previously convicted of a crime that is now decriminalized or legalized the ability to seal all record of their arrests and related court proceedings. The bill, titled the “Record Sealing for Decriminalized...

Oscar Pistorius Sentenced to Five Years

Oct. 21, 2014 — UPDATE: Oscar Pistorius was sentenced today to five years in prison for the culpable homicide of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and received a three-year sentence for negligently discharging a firearm in a crowded restaurant, though that term was suspended, according to The Guardian UK. The British...

DC Metropolitan Police Department to Launch Body Camera Pilot Program

In a response to the ongoing controversy sparked by the police shooting of an unarmed black team in Ferguson, MO, the Metropolitan Police Department has joined several other agencies across the country in the move to test our body-mounted cameras on patrol officers. The MPD will launch a six month...

Chris Brown Pleads Guilty to DC Assault

Singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor assault for hitting a fan outside the W Hotel on Oct. 27. According to the Washington Post, prosecutors did not ask for jail time and instead requested that the judge sentence 25-year-old Brown to time served in exchange for the guilty plea....

Chris Brown Forced to Cancel OVO Festival Performance

Aug. 6, 2014 Music fans in America and Canada will have to wait for the much-discussed reunion between Drake and Chris Brown. The singers were scheduled to perform together at the OVO Fest 2014 in Canada, which is Drake’s home country, for the first time since a widely publicized feud...

Can I Carry a Handgun in DC?

UPDATE: A federal judge today issued a 90-day stay on his decision to invalidate Washington DC’s long-time ban on handguns. The stay was issued after DC police and city officials asked for more time to respond to the federal court’s decision, which was handed down Saturday by U.S. District Judge...

Update: Botched Arizona Election Fuels Fire on Death Row Debate

This is an update to a blog we posted yesterday, and only further strengthens our conviction that information regarding the use of unknown lethal injection drugs should be turned over immediately. Yesterday’s post focused on the case of Joseph Wood, a death row inmate in Arizona who was granted a...

Supreme Court Deals Blow to First Amendment Argument Regarding Lethal Injection

The Supreme Court vacated a federal appellate court ruling to stay the execution of an Arizona man Tuesday, despite concerns that remain regarding the secrecy that surrounds the lethal injection process. Joseph Wood was sentenced to death in 1991 for shooting his ex-girlfriend and her father, both of whom died....

House Seeks to Gut DC Gun Laws, Block Marijuana Decriminalization

The battle wages on in the House of Representatives over Washington, DC’s gun and drug laws. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives approved an amendment to a spending bill that, if passed, would make DC’s gun laws largely obsolete. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) introduced the bill, which would prohibit the city...

The First Day of Marijuana Decriminalization in DC

Starting today, possession of one ounce or less of marijuana is no longer a crime in the District of Columbia. That does not mean it is legal, merely that it is a civil offense punishable by a $25 fine and confiscation of any marijuana or paraphernalia in public view. In...

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