Which is a big assumption. We cannot kill people without allowing for appeals, not with all of the convictions we get wrong due to prosecutorial overreach and elected judges who want to tout a “high conviction” number.

1. Even if the point is not reform, we aren’t allowed to virtually torture prisoners. There’s an amendment against that. Its the 8th one.

Liked and want to add that non-violent crimes aren’t the only ones we should lessen sentences for and enact total reform regarding. Punching somebody at a bar, by definition, is violent. Human trafficking, by definition, is non-violent. So, we should be more careful with the distinctions we draw.

Depends. If anything is in plain view, that would give them the probable cause needed to do a search. They could also do a search incident to arrest if he was under arrest for something else. Lastly, he can give them permission to search the car.

I couldn’t agree with you more about the relevance. I imagine it went something like this: the attorneys goal is to impeach the witness on the basis of reliability. The victim likely said something on the stand (while she was being subject to the horrible, rape-cultured line of questioning outlined in the Stanford…

Ugh. This is horrifying, but I would like to know more. Unfortunately, according to evidence rules that all judges must follow, if somebody decides to take the witness stand (goes from just a Plaintiff to a witness) you can impeach them in pretty much any way you want. The only way a judge can bar such evidence if…

Yes, it can. Alcohol addiction, unlike many hardcore drugs, has many different shades and many only require changing your habits and not complete sobriety.

Nope. Couldn’t disagree more. We can’t make criminal justice reform decisions based on the (vast) minority of people who we prefer to favor harshness for. It should absolutely be our policy that once you’ve served your time the punishment is over. I know that that ends in shitty situations like this asshole having a…

No, its anything non-penis. In this case, it was digital. Fingers count as foreign objects in most jurisdictions.

I hate that I have to say this and sound as if I`m in defense of this rapist at all, but the goal of a sentence is to ameliorate the negative effects on society, not the victim themselves. It is, after all, the State versus the Defendant, not the Victim versus the Defendant. The same victim-focused logic is the reason…

I really do like Bernie. But if we have a President Trump, he will now be one of the main people to blame. So for that, fuck Bernie right now.

No no, it's not nit-picky, it's appreciated. I do know this but it was an oversight on my part.

At UCLA there are metal detectors for all of the libraries, which I assume was a response to Columbine and the tendency for mass shootings to happen where there are large groups. But, the campus is just too massive to have them in each building.

June 2^nd is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. We invite the campus community to attend a candlelight vigil in observance of this national day of awareness — tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Bruin Plaza.

Me too. He got his graduate degree from Stanford so there’s a good chance he has naturalized or atleast become an LPR since being here. Alas, he was not born here which sucks for our cause.

Ugh so many public facebook posts claiming that he is “moslem” because of his name. Pardon me, fucktards, but he is Indian and therefore likely Hindi, not Muslim. Also, fuck you.

Well, Stevens was actually quite liberal, especially in his years before retirement.

Follow up: after-work drinks.

Breyer: Whatever Ginsburg, Kagan, and Sotomayor are having

Just got an email from the law school. If anyone is on campus the law library is open and secure.