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People v. Long
The defendant appeals a trial court order finding his continued detention necessary due to charges of criminal sexual assault, citing a real threat to safety and community under statutory authority.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.netthis state over the age of eighteen years found on the second Monday in January 1866, or thereafter, with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling themselves together either in the day - or nighttime, and all white persons so assembling with freedmen, free Negroes, or mulattoes, or usually associating with freedmen, free Neg
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Schafer and his wife, Mollie Fry, a doctor, opened a medical marijuana dispensary after Fry started using the drug to alleviate complications from chemotherapy. Despite operating the business within California state law, Schafer and Fry had their home raided by the feds, who confiscated thirty-four plants. But the feds insisted that, since they had
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Essentially, if you had time to gather in a group, you must not have a job, and therefore, you’d be deemed a criminal.
John Graham • Plantation Theory: The Black Professional's Struggle Between Freedom and Security
Whites to be jailed for drug offenses. Nonviolent Black drug offenders remain in prisons for about the same length of time (58.7 months) as violent White criminals (61.7 months). In 2016, Black and Latinx people were still grossly overrepresented in the prison population at 56 percent, double their percentage of the U.S. adult population. White peo
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