Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling made some racist remarks to his girlfriend, she recorded them, and they were leaked on the internet. This appears likely to cost Sterling the ownership of his team, but he bought it for $12 million and will sell it for $1 billion, so he will be able to dry his tears with his $988 million profit. What’s the criminal law angle? Whether the recording was legal or not, of course. The Legal Blitz addresses the issue here. In other news: Prejudice among Durham’s finest? A local commission thinks so. According to WRAL, “Durham’s Human Relations Commission says in a new report that racial bias and profiling does exist in the Bull City's police department, and it plans to present a list of nearly three dozen recommendations to city leaders on how to fix the problem.” Durham’s police chief denies the claim. More-al Mondays? The short session of the General Assembly is about to start, and according to the News and Observer, Rev. William Barber II says that Moral Monday protests will start back up as well. The Wake County court system has disposed of less than half of the 900+ original Moral Monday cases, so I doubt there’s much enthusiasm for a possible infusion of hundreds more. Oklahoma execution disaster. Oklahoma had a botched execution this week. Corrections personnel had trouble finding a suitable vein for the injection, and the vein that was used apparently collapsed during the procedure, leading to protracted suffering by the [...]
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