[The Dobbs Wire (@TheDobbsWire) / Twitter – 4/19/21] A Massachusetts father writes about his young son — an important matter requiring a trip to the police station. It’s a powerful, poignant story that the Chicago Tribune published on Dec. 1, 1996. The father inquires, “What will be done with this information?” He asked that question shortly after the Massachusetts sex offense registry got rolling, on Oct. 1, 1996. Massachusetts was the last of the states to create an official blacklist. This year marks 25 years that every state has had…
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The Dobbs Wire: Rogue judge driven off the bench
[The Dobbs Wire email – 12/25/18] A Pittsburgh criminal court judge has finally submitted her resignation. Judge Donna Jo McDaniel’s expected exit comes after repeated rebukes by a Pennsylvania appeals court, extensive news coverage, the ire of at least one editorial board, and talk of an investigation by the state’s judicial conduct commission. First elected to the bench in 1985, McDaniel was driven from office for failing to deliver fair and impartial justice – treating individuals charged with sex offenses (and their defense counsel) terribly, imposing excessive sentences and repeatedly…
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