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Billy Walters Bets Big On Manhattan Trial
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Josh Kendrick
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Mar 17, 2017
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March 17, 2017 (Fault Lines) — What do the stock market, sports betting, and criminal trials have in common? They are all forms of gambling. Billy Walters, the world’s most successful professional gambler, is hoping he...
March Madness vs. The Nanny State
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Josh Kendrick
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Mar 14, 2017
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March 14, 2017 (Fault Lines) — This is an important week. Starting tonight, millions of otherwise law-abiding people engage in criminal activity. The NCAA tournament is here and that means it’s bracket time. Typically, you fill...
Lynne Stewart: The Passing of a Real Lawyer
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Josh Kendrick
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Mar 10, 2017
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March 10, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Attorney Lynne Stewart passed away this week after battling terminal cancer. She was 77 years old. Media reports refer to her a “leftist” lawyer and a “radical” lawyer. Maybe those...
In Beckles, SCOTUS Perpetuates the Advisory Guidelines Fantasy
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Josh Kendrick
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Mar 8, 2017
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March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The United States Supreme Court ruled on a major federal sentencing guidelines case this week. For the last decade plus, since the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Booker, the guidelines...
Amazon Isn’t Fighting for You
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Josh Kendrick
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Mar 3, 2017
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March 3, 2017 (Fault Lines) — If you have ever bought anything from Amazon, you know the creepy follow-up. All of a sudden, anything related to the product you looked at on the Amazon site starts...
Calub Bocanegra: No Evidence, No Conviction
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Josh Kendrick
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Feb 27, 2017
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February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines) – There is one big truth in the American criminal justice system. Average Americans don’t care about justice because they aren’t criminals. You did the crime, you do the time. Wrongful...
Fourth Circuit Fires a Shot Across Second Amendment’s Bow
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Josh Kendrick
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Feb 23, 2017
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February 24, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The Second Amendment brings out a uniquely hypocritical reaction in American citizens. The right-wingers love a fascist police state with a powerful law enforcement branch. Until it tries to take...
Tennessee Cracks Down on the Scourge of Unlicensed Horse Massage
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Josh Kendrick
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Feb 21, 2017
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February 21, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The Government loves to fix problems. And if it can’t find any, it creates new ones. Tennessee resident Laurie Wheeler is getting a first-hand look at how the government can...
Legislators Want to Make Courts as Dumb as They Are
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Josh Kendrick
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Feb 17, 2017
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February 17, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Checks and balances are an important part of American government. If you end up with a crazy executive, you have Congress and the court system to watch your back. If...
For New Orleans DA, Perjury Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
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Josh Kendrick
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Feb 14, 2017
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February 14, 2017 (Fault Lines) – People probably aren’t surprised to hear witnesses regularly lie in criminal trials. But they might be surprised it’s not usually those slimy defense lawyers that put the liars on the...
Omaha Jury Finds Restaurant Owner Not Guilty For Tweet Warning
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Josh Kendrick
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Feb 10, 2017
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February 10, 2017 (Fault Lines) – If you watch the news for longer than ten minutes, the idea of obstructing a government operation sounds more like a heroic act than a crime. But Nebraska takes issue...
Richard Schmack And The High Cost Of Integrity
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Josh Kendrick
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Feb 7, 2017
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February 7, 2017 (Fault Lines) – When Maria Ridulph was kidnapped in Sycamore, Illinois in 1957, no one knew the case would grow far beyond an abduction and murder. The nation’s oldest and coldest murder case...
Sixth Circuit: This Is Your Defense, Take It Or Leave It
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Josh Kendrick
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Feb 3, 2017
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February 3, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Prosecutors get beat up a lot for courtroom injustices. Some even suggest judges are to blame. Or gullible jurors. But what about defense lawyers? Defense lawyers shouldn’t play any part...
11th Circuit To District Courts: No Secret Note Passing
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Josh Kendrick
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Jan 31, 2017
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January 31, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Getting caught passing notes in class was high on the list of childhood embarrassments. Whatever your message that just couldn’t wait was, there was nothing worse than the risk of...
Texas Teacher Sex Gets Expensive, But Who’s The Real Victim?
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Josh Kendrick
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Jan 27, 2017
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January 27, 2017 (Fault Lines) – It’s hard to believe that, all of a sudden, there is a rash of teacher-student sex romps. There are a lot more stories in the news these days about taking...
Taxes And Regulations Bring Bootlegging Back From The Dead
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Josh Kendrick
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Jan 24, 2017
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January 24, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Taxes are the scourge of our existence. They are so hated they are often mentioned in the same breath as death. Most people will do anything to avoid them. But...
Another Non-Solution To The Massachusetts Crime Lab Problem
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Josh Kendrick
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Jan 20, 2017
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January 20, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The criminal justice system will always have problems. Not because it is flawed, but because the people it relies on to run are flawed. The recent wave of crime lab...
Consequences And Repercussions In Palm Beach County Police Shooting
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Josh Kendrick
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Jan 17, 2017
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January 17, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Deputy Adams Lin and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office are in the midst of a hard lesson on consequences and repercussions, by way of some U.S. Marshals cleaning out...
Federal Court, Where It’s Alright To Be All Wrong
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Josh Kendrick
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Jan 13, 2017
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January 13, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Earlier this week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion that results in a pretty scary rule for defendants in that circuit. Confronted with...
Kentucky Prosecutors Would Rather Kill You Than Admit They Are Wrong
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Josh Kendrick
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Jan 10, 2017
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January 10, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The story is almost a cliché. Kentucky men Garr Keith Hardin and Jeffrey Dewayne Clark were convicted in 1995 for the murder of Rhonda Sue Warford. Highly suspect circumstantial evidence,...
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