In a curious decision, a circuit court judge orders a new sentencing, but denies Havard a new trial
Even controlling for crime rates, class and income, racial bias infects every nook and cranny of our courts, prisons, jails and police stations.
Plus: Exonerated Texas man dies while waiting for compensation, Border Patrol agent quits after change of heart, and NRA hypocrisy on cop killings and gun rights
And municipal governments have paid out $2.2 billion to exonerees.
Plus: Mollie Tibbetts's father makes plea for tolerance; more racist cops; and a Nashville police officer who killed an unarmed man now trains new recruits.
A Cincinnati cop keeps putting people at risk -- and then he keeps getting promoted.
Plus: The case against the felony murder rule, Mexico's bloody drug war, and a visionary in harm reduction dies.
Study also finds that images of cops in military gear diminish support for increasing funding to police agencies.
Plus: Witness to an execution, when a cop wrongly arrests you, and how race affects personnel decisions at the Columbus (Ohio) police department.