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A recent lower-court decision in Tennessee may be a bellwether signaling a need to tweak law enforcement use-of-force policies
In my experience the defense generally attacks expert gang testimony during two phases
The Supreme Court has ruled that American cops can collect DNA upon arrest, but can backlogged crime labs handle it?