Maybe of interest to criminal legal system researchers: https://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/?fa=newsinfo.pressdetail&newsid=50064
Washington Courts: "Statewide Juvenile Arrest Data Available Through New Dashboard"

#Law #CriminalJustice #LawFedi #CriminalLegalSystem #CriminalLaw #JuvenileJustice

Sandra Hemme has spent more than 42 years in prison– if exonerated, her prison term would mark the longest known wrongful conviction of a woman in U.S. history. So proud of the lawyers on my team fighting for her at the #InnocenceProject

#innocence #WrongfulConviction #law
#lawfedi @law #CriminalJustice #CriminalLegalSystem #CriminalLegalReform
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/innocent-woman-confessed-to-missouri-murder-lawyers-say-was-the-real-killer-a-cop/ar-AA18mk8N

On this day Dec 14, 1948

Two 12-Year-Old White Girls Get Lost; 17 Black Men Arrested https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/dec/14 #CriminalLegalSystem #Injustice #RacialEquity

One way to distinguish between the #CriminalJusticeSystem and the #CriminalLegalSystem is by considering how prosecutions might proceed in either case.

For the justice system, prosecutions find witnesses, execute warrants, build theories to prove the guilt of the perpetrator to a jury of their peers.

For the legal system, prosecutions don't have to do anything. The evidence of the "crime" is indisputable. The person the police arrested has a suspended license.

#followfriday looking for others interested in #criminaljustice #criminallaw #criminaljusticereform #criminallegalsystem