State of Equality and Justice in America

The Presumption of Guilt

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/state-of-equality-and-justice-in-america-the-presumption-of-guilt/2013/05/17/49a51a42-bf07-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_blog.html





After serving 42 years in an
Arizona prison for a crime he didn’t commit, a 58-year-old man was finally
released this April.

Federal judge lifts LAPD consent decree





The order ends oversight
imposed in 2001, mostly over the Rampart scandal, which involved abuse of
suspects, evidence tampering and perjury.



Los Angeles Times May 16, 2013



http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lapd-consent-decree-20130517,0,1746570.story

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