Criminal Defense
Civil Rights Cases for Criminal Practitioners
Greetings, beloved criminal practitioners and defenders of civil rights! After a break from doing these updates, attributable mostly to a crazy trial schedule and launching / rebranding our new firm McKenzie Scott PC, my colleagues and I are excited to reboot this newsletter. As always, our hope is to
Pretext Stops, Whren, and The Onion before the Supreme Court
(Constitutional Cases for Justice Warriors: October 12, 2022 Edition)
Other than a hard-fought loss from McKenzie Scott PC’s criminal / white-collar practice, it was a slow week for relevant Ninth Circuit civil cases.
So we turn our attention to unexpectedly powerful language—and ideas—from the Fifth
Private prisons lack oversight, prioritize profits over people, and endanger the lives of detainees
The challenges and, all too frequent, horrors of life in private prisons in the United States are well documented:
- Jonathan Mattise, Private prison firm to settle lawsuit over inmate death, San Diego Union Tribune, August 14, 2022.
- First Amendment
