A Missouri lawmaker pitching a tough-on-crime bill this week directed blame for a surge in violence in the state’s biggest cities at factors including the sometimes violent protests in Ferguson and St. Louis’ prosecutor. Suburban St. Louis Republican Sen. Bob ...

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During the 22 years he spent in prison after being convicted of killing a Boston police detective, Sean Ellis believed there was something suspicious about the officers who led the murder investigation. He just couldn’t prove it. It would take ...

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Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a white Missouri police officer stands as a seismic moment in American race relations. The fledgling Black Lives Matter movement found its voice, police departments fell under intense scrutiny, progressive prosecutors were elected ...

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Overcriminalization matters because the costs of facing criminal sanction are so high and because the criminal law can no longer sort out the law-abiding from the non-law-abiding. But it also matters because — as the Garner case reminds us — the police might kill you.

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St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Levy Siwak took under advisement Wednesday a request to open Michael Brown’s juvenile record, but arguments at a hearing indicated Brown had not been charged with certain felony offenses as a juvenile.

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Activist Rev. Al Sharpton spoke to a crowd of journalists on Tuesday at the Old Courthouse in St. Louis about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson.

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Hundreds marched down South Florissant Road in Ferguson to protest the killing of an unarmed black teenager Saturday afternoon.

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Benjamin Crump, the Florida attorney best known for representing the family of Trayvon Martin, will represent the family of an unarmed black teenager shot to death this weekend by a police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. (Updated)

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