Law

A 'Guantanamo Diary' From A Prisoner Still On The Inside

2:51pm May 01, 2015

by NPR Staff

In the first memoir from a prisoner still being held at Guantanamo, Mohamedou Ould Slahi tells how he went from his native Mauritania to joining al-Qaida in Afghanistan to the U.S. prison in Cuba.

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State's Attorney: Freddie Gray's Death Was A Homicide

12:47pm May 01, 2015

State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby said there is "probable cause" for criminal charges in the case of Gray's death. He died on April 19, one week after being taken into custody by Baltimore police.

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Baltimore Reacts To State Attorney's Announcement Of Charges

12:47pm May 01, 2015

Six officers will face criminal charges in the death of Freddie Gray. NPR's Jennifer Ludden describes how Baltimore residents are responding.

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Oakland police officers, wearing body cameras, form a line during demonstrations against recent incidents of alleged police brutality nationwide.

National

California Bill Could Limit Police Access To Body Camera Footage

12:46pm May 01, 2015

by Richard Gonzales

Lawmakers want to prohibit police officers from viewing video from their body cameras before they write their reports. It's part of an effort to bring more transparency to policing.

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Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia and his longtime liberal dueling partner, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in 2014.

Same-Sex Marriage, In The Justices' Words

12:19pm May 01, 2015

by Nina Totenberg

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the question of same-sex marriage. In the meantime, we know a good deal about the justices' views already.

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Education

Judge Reduces 3 Educators' Sentences In Atlanta Cheating Scandal

11:08am May 01, 2015

by Martha Dalton

In a highly unusual move, the judge in the Atlanta test-cheating case said he had a change of heart. He reduced three people's sentences from seven years in prison to three.

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Bill That Would Curb NSA's Bulk Collection Of Phone Data Advances In House

9:57am May 01, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

The USA Freedom Act would also make significant opinions from a secret court public and would allow challenges to challenges to National Security Letters.

Tyrone Peake says he's been fired from three jobs because a crime he committed more than 30 years ago is still on his record.

Can't Get A Job Because Of A Criminal Record? A Lawsuit Is Trying To Change That

8:19pm April 30, 2015

by Carrie Johnson

People convicted of minor crimes years ago are suing to overturn a Pennsylvania law that bars them from working full time in nursing homes, locking them out of a fast-growing sector in the economy.

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National

Baltimore Police Conclude Investigation Into Freddie Gray's Death

8:19pm April 30, 2015

by Jeff Brady

The investigation into the death of the 25-year-old has been handed over to the city's prosecutor. But it is raising more questions than answers and failing to quell the community's calls for justice.

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor grilled lawyers arguing the constitutionality of new lethal-injection cocktails.

It's Sotomayor V. Roberts In Supreme Court Death Penalty Drama

7:13pm April 29, 2015

by Nina Totenberg

Justice Sonia Sotomayor and lawyers arguing in favor of Oklahoma's lethal-injection cocktail got into a clash so pronounced that Chief Justice John Roberts chastised Sotomayor for talking too much.

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