Will Charlie Baker Commute a Convicted Murderer’s Life Sentence?

“After Willie Horton, there was this perception that the parole board would be really careful with any an all release decisions,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells
The Boston Globe. “You have this culture that over the last 30 years has been more cautious politically.”

Army Corrects the Record About a Black Soldier Killed by a White Sergeant in 1941

An investigation by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) has led to an official status change in the death record of Private Albert King, one of dozens of Black service members believed to have been killed on or near US bases because of their race. “Removing the taint is an important dynamic for the whole country, not just for the families, but for the understanding of this particular history,” Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of CRRJ, tells The New York Times.

Attorneys For Boston Marathon Bomber To Appeals Judges: Trial Was Not Fair

The question here is whether or not one juror's posting of information about the bombing on social media somehow infected the trial and potentially deprived Tsarnaev of his right to a fair trial. Unless we have stronger evidence than just the mere fact that he posted on social media, I'm not sure this claim rises to the level of reversible error."