by JLPP | May 17, 2017 | Amicus, Guest Author
Almost a year ago, following the lifting of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the combat ban against women, the United States military ended its ban on transgender soldiers. Then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter argued at the time that “we don’t want barriers unrelated to a...
by JLPP | Apr 10, 2017 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice, Executive Branch, Legislation, Policing and Law Enforcement
Last month, State Attorney Aramis Ayala, who represents the Orlando area counties, announced that she would not be seeking the death penalty in the prosecution of Markeith Loyd. Loyd was charged with killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and fatally shooting an already...
by JLPP | Mar 10, 2017 | Amicus, Criminal Justice
In 1984, Catherine Fuller, a Washington D.C. mother of six, was walking to the pharmacy when she was abducted from her neighborhood.[1] Fuller was forced into a nearby parking garage where she was robbed, beaten to death, and sodomized with a metal pole.[2] Under...