District attorneys abuse mandatory minimum drug sentences
It’s no surprise that the district attorneys want to hold onto this near absolute power.
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It’s no surprise that the district attorneys want to hold onto this near absolute power.
We cannot look to Washington D.C. to fix a problem it is responsible for creating.
Carol Rose, executive director at the ACLU of Massachusetts, today released the following statement in response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to uphold the block on the Trump Administration’s Muslim ban:
The first-of-its-kind notice campaign is to inform wrongfully convicted people that they have a path to justice.
“Hopefully, these policy changes will act as a deterrent and help ensure that no one else has to go through what I went through.”
A second federal appeals court has ruled in favor of fairness and liberty.