Criminal Justice
March 8, 2010 -
By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica
February 26, 2010 -
By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica Former New Orleans Police Department Lt. Michael Lohman pleadedguilty to a single count of conspiring to obstruct justice, inconnection with one of a string of violent encounters between policeand civilians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Policeshot at least 10 people during the week after the storm made landfall.
February 18, 2010 -
History was made yesterday in North Carolina when a special panel of judges declared innocent a man who served 17 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.
January 6, 2010 -
By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, Mother Jones For the better part of
December 15, 2009 -
Representatives from 15 environmental advocacy groups have called on President Obama to end the Tennessee Valley Authority's immunity from federal prosecution for its Kingston coal ash disaster and other violations of federal law.