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Shaila Dewan

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Covers criminal justice at the New York Times. Relatively optimistic. Cover photo by the great @WilliamWidmer. Tips to dewan at https://t.co/zGJ4T9rCnp

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2 months
Downtown Brooklyn DMV: 50 service windows, zero changing tables @GovKathyHochul @nysdmv
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two large bathrooms, no changing table. @FiveGuys
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2 months
RT @kenvogel: NEW: Nearly 12k people have filed clemency petitions with DOJ under Biden. All but 157 are still waiting. It stung when Hun…
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2 months
@FiveGuys two bathrooms, no changing table.
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3 months
@GovKathyHochul @nysdmv I recently visited the downtown Brooklyn DMV where there are 51 service counters but ZERO changing tables.
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@triplebankshot @tedfrank @wil_da_beast630 There have been hundreds of cases where witnesses and defendants were given details by the police and then incorporated them into their accounts.
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Shaila Dewan
5 months
@tedfrank @triplebankshot @wil_da_beast630 The witness's story was both wrong and inconsistent.
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@triplebankshot @tedfrank @wil_da_beast630 Lastly, if he had the laptop (which there is evidence that the girlfriend gave to him) he might have come into other of the victim's possessions in the same way. It is physical evidence, but not the same as finding evidence of his presence at the crime scene.
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5 months
Really important explanation of how federal courts obstruct civil rights law:
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5 months
@triplebankshot @tedfrank @wil_da_beast630 The purse and ruler are complicated: the girlfriend -- the same one who thot cooperating would bring her leniency -- had free access to Williams's car. Police never found the purse -- it is only the girlfriend's story that it was ever in the car.
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Shaila Dewan
5 months
@troy_closson and I found that more than 700 children have been arrested in a wave of school violence threats across the country.
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Shaila Dewan
6 months
Where are we now on criminal justice reform, anyway?
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6 months
Are innocent prisoners the latest front in the war on progressive prosecutors?
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8 months
Jesus, what happened to the City of Yes?
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