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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
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That tweet you think is from @TheOnion, but is actually from @nytimes.
@TheOnion @nytimes Everyone's focused on the first part of this tweet (I mean I get it) but the second part is problematic in its own special way - "confirmed she didn't belong at Yale."

I get how it made her feel. That's not what this says.
@TheOnion @nytimes Be so shockingly misogynistic in the first part of your tweet, maybe people will miss the racism in the second.
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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
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Orlando police arrested a six-year-old Black girl for "throwing a tantrum" in her first-grade class. The cops handcuffed her, put her in the back of a police car and took her to a juvenile detention facility where they fingerprinted her and took a mugshot. wfla.com/news/florida/f…
The name of the police officer who made the arrest is Dennis Turner. Turns out he also arrested an 8-year-old boy on the same day in an unrelated incident. Department policy requires officers to get permission to arrest children under 12. He didn't.
So the department will investigate that part. But there is no minimum age for arrest in Florida.

In 2014/2015, 80 children under 9 were arrested in the state. In 2010, a 4-year-old was arrested with other children for breaking a padlock on a shed and vandalizing property.
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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
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Speaking of people convicted solely on the basis of someone's word. Toforest Johnson was convicted of murder & has been on death row in Alabama for 20 years because a DA paid a witness $5,000 after she said she heard him confess on a phone call. That's it. theappeal.org/alabama-man-de…
That's the evidence against him.

The witness had never heard his voice, never met him, she didn't even know him.

And all of this was withheld from defense attorneys, a clear violation of the Brady rule, which requires the prosecution to turn over exculpatory evidence.
Based on the same evidence, Mr. Johnson's co-defendant, Ardragus Ford, was acquitted at a separate trial.

At Mr. Ford's trial, prosecutors argued Mr. Ford had shot and killed the victim, William Hardy.

At Mr. Johnson's trial, they argued Mr. Johnson had. al.com/opinion/2019/0…
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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
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People don't realize that in the vast majority of cases - not just rape, but robbery, assault, larceny, even murder - the only or primary evidence is testimonial. Meaning someone's word.

There are literally people sitting on death row based on testimonial evidence. #Kavanaugh
Prosecutors have a stock line at the beginning of jury selection where they say, now you may watch CSI and Law & Order, but that's not the real world. What we have in the real world is testimony, often just by the person making the allegation.
Then they will ask jurors, can you convict solely on the basis of testimonial evidence. And if people can't do that, they are struck from the jury for cause. It's a basic requirement for sitting on a jury that you are able to do that.
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