Former NYPD detective Harry Houck told Fox News today that Trayvon Martin was responsible for his own death because of his “street attitude” during a Fox News live stream from the Zimmerman jury selection. “Listen, Trayvon Martin would be alive today, okay, if he didn’t, alright, have a street attitude. That’s the bottom line.”
The US Supreme Court prepares to enter June with the term’s biggest cases yet to be decided. NBC’s Pete Williams looks at what’s left on the docket. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
A California woman is speaking out after being forced to pay spousal support to her ex-husband who was convicted of raping her daughter for over 16 years. Carol Abar told Los Angeles CBS2 that “Every time I wrote that check, I cried because I felt like I was paying the man that raped my daughter.” […]
Fifty years after the Supreme Court’s Gideon vs. Wainwright ruling, many legal advocates contend that the justice system is still failing the poor. In the video below, public defenders and legal advocates discuss ways to solve the nation’s public defense crisis, 50 years after the Gideon decision and you can find some amazing charts on […]
Kendall Coffey, former U.S. Attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about the “Public Safety Exception” under which terrorist suspects are not read their Miranda rights and how it applies to the case of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect. Maddow began by explaining that “the Obama administration has extended the reach of that public safety exemption, […]