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IN-DEPTH: How Social Media Has Undermined Britain’s Legal Safeguards for Fair Trials
The law in England and Wales forbids people giving their opinions about ongoing or upcoming criminal trials but the principle is under assault on social media.
Civil Rights Leaders Decry Decision in Chokehold Case
Civil rights leaders Thursday decried the grand jury decision not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of a black man and announced plans for a march and a summit on racial justice in Washington later this month.
Susan Marie Mellen Exonerated, Freed After 17 Years in Prison
A woman who spent 17 years in prison for the death of a homeless man hugged her grandchild for the first time and did a dance of happiness after she was judged innocent of murder and freed.
Detained Without Conviction
One-third of world’s prisoners are in pretrial detention. Some as long as years.
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