by Stanley Augustin | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog
Last week, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam granted Cyntoia Brown clemency for a crime committed when she was sixteen years old. Convicted as an adult for murder and given a life sentence, she faced the prospect of living most or all of the rest of her life in...
by Stanley Augustin | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog
The July 2016 death of Alton Sterling at the hands of two Baton Rouge police officers and the subsequent decision by the Louisiana Attorney General and Department of Justice to not prosecute these officers added new chapters to the long, troubled history between local...