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@bellwak

Now: national news reporter ✶ Anxious former freelancer ✶ Previously: , ✶ I prefer DMs via carrier pigeon

Chicago ✶ D.C.
Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2008.

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    Rahm's exit from the 5th floor spells changes ahead for the power structures in Chicago — and a sign that residents don’t want the next mayor to be in his mold

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    Trump’s DOJ doesn’t do a lot of these, so this is notable.

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    BREAKING: Music critic leaving after 40 years:

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  5. Dawn is treasure and this is a huge loss for the Tribune

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  7. Legal defense advocates have noted the ability for defense attorneys to raise issues about common practices like cash bail or plea deals is essential for making meaningful reform. Otherwise, judges can accurately say that no one in their courtroom has raised a complaint.

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  8. Plea deals are the main way federal and state criminal cases are disposed in the U.S. A tiny fraction actually go to trial. Roughly 90% end in plea deals.

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  9. In response, Tom Green Co. prosecutors refused to negotiate plea deals w/ Stone for her trial court cases unless she signed a special waiver essentially disavowing the argument from her appellate case. As a result, Stone said she's effectively barred from practicing in the county

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  10. Stone argued in an appellate case, first tried in Tom Green Co., that plea deals are unconstitutional. Her client pleaded guilty to agg assault after being jailed nearly a year with no trial. PBs can save time/$ or spare victims a trial, but critics argue they're also coercive.

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  11. “In this case, the DA is saying, ‘we are going to dictate the legal arguments you can make, and if you don’t agree we’re going to make sure that your other clients don’t have the same right to justice as everyone else" - defense atty Patricia Stone

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  12. This story has everything: plea deals, prosecutorial power, and defense attorneys who fight for enough independence to challenge systems like plea bargaining and cash bail. My latest on a case out of Texas: cc

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    Preston Brooks came very close to murdering Charles Sumner with a cane on the House floor, but ok

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    ICYMI: Wanna know the most common guns on streets before 1980? Trib archives have you covered.

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    BREAKING: A 32-year-old US citizen who was arrested by Border Patrol agents has died in custody, according to a statement from CBP to congressional officials on Wed. Border officials said the man had been picked up in an “illegal smuggling incident.”

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    This is a maddening story out of Michigan, where Michael Thompson is petitioning Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for clemency on his *40-year sentence* on a pot case that prosecutors bent to fit a violent narrative. In Michigan, cannabis is legal. By .

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    As part of writing up my recent piece on Mormon politics in the age of Trump I talked to a few Mormon voters. And the thing I kept hearing from them is... "character matters" Here's the piece if you're interested:

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    "My own view is there there’s not much I can think of that would be a more egregious assault on our Constitution than trying to corrupt an election to maintain power. And that’s what the president did.” --Mitt Romney, who is voting to convict

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    Sending solidarity to our comrades at ! ✊

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    Remembering our friend Ed, and one of dozens of tales of Chicago's past he wove from memory.

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  21. . spoke to Fred Guttenberg, the father of a Parkland school shooting victim, after Guttenberg was handcuffed and detained for shouting during last night's speech

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