The family further said the morning after Smollett was taken away to jail, a sibling whose phone number is his emergency contact started being "bombarded" with phone threats about harm that would be done to Smollett in jail – using "profane, racist, and homophobic terms." The sheriff's off...
widely-publicized immigrant crime stories, many Americans fear an “immigrant crime wave.” Nearly 6 in 10 agree that “the large number of migrants seeking to enter the U.S. is leading to more crime”—despite the reality that immigrants (both legal and undocumented) have an incarceration rat...
Of hearing stories like several of my friends having been raped by their fathers and relatives when they were a child (the ward I went to is a very, sad place) and being forever shaken from the aftermath. I’m sick of people saying to depressed people: “just be happy” and to those...
Ward, 184 F.3d at 1223 (applying § 2254(e)(1)'s presumption of correctness to state- court factual findings bearing upon the claim, even though the claim was not adjudicated on the merits by the state court). B. Existence of Mental Retardation Mr. Hooks first asks us to find that ...