Follow me As originally reported by Mother Jones, a report from the University of Michigan Law School has declared that 2015 set a new record for the highest amount of people that have been freed after it was proven that they were wrongfully convicted. As detailed in the report, there
Follow me Radical Movie Night in Las Vegas (via KellyWPatterson.com) September’s debut of the Las Vegas Radical Movie Night went very well. In fact, it went well enough that we will now be doing two showings per month. So, on every second and fourth Friday of the month at 6:00
Follow me Update: Charges Dismissed Against Brian Sumner Brian Sumner has reported via the FaceBook event page that his charges were dropped He also stated: “Its all thanks to you. I wish everyone of you could have seen the DAs face. My lawyer told me that she wasn’t sure if
Follow me A History of Jury Rights Day People across the country will be celebrating Jury Rights Day September 5th. On this day in 1670, Quaker William Penn of London was arrested for the “crime” of preaching his personal religious beliefs. Penn pled not guilty and subsequently argued against England’s
Follow me This week, Nevada Cop Block will be hosting a special event as part of a local activist get together known as the Las Vegas Anarchist Cafe, which will focus on bringing accountability to Las Vegas area police. This event, “Disarm the Police,” will be an informational and organizing meeting
Follow me Earlier this week, New Hampshire’s government, which famously wasted a bunch of money and effort trying to jail a man for covering the state’s motto “Live Free or Die” on his license plate, once again displayed their preference toward the second option within that phrase. Ademo Freeman, a
Follow me A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals with identifiable leadership and internal organization, identifying with or claiming control over territory in the community, and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behavior. Usually, gangs have gained the most control in poorer,
Follow me It’s a pretty accepted idea that fingerprint evidence is an airtight method of proving that an accused person was at the scene of a crime. However, contrary to what we are told constantly in movies, books, and actual courtrooms; fingerprints are not the judicial bedrock they have been
Follow me A seventy percent rate of false positives is nothing to get alarmed about. Let’s be optimists and think of the glass as thirty percent full. (Originally posted at EYEAM4ANARCHY) Kelly W. PattersonKelly is a lifelong resident of Las Vegas, who’s been very active in local grassroots activism, as
Follow me While searching for images to use on the blog recently I came across a bit of ever-present Government logic. You can read the full case here, but I’ll give a short summary so you don’t have to wade through all that. Back in 1974, a Jehovah’s Witness named
