Criminal LawFeaturedFlorida LawMental Health
April 18, 2024By Victoire Jonqua
On Saturday, March 9th, 2024, Ryan Gainer, a fifteen-year-old Black boy with autism, was shot and killed by a San Bernardino police officer right in front of his family home in Apple Valley, Southern California.[i] Gainer’s family called 911 after he attacked his sister during a disagreement and broke a glass door.[ii] When the […]
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FeaturedFlorida Law
March 24, 2023By Victoire Jonqua
On October 13, 2022, twelve jurors returned a life sentence verdict for Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who opened fire on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018—leaving seventeen dead and seventeen injured.[i] Approximately a year before the verdict was returned, Cruz pleaded guilty to seventeen counts of first-degree […]
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Florida LawJuvenile Law
October 26, 2022By Victoire Jonqua
Ian Manuel lived alone in a room the size of a freight elevator for almost two decades in Florida’s prison system, starting at the age of thirteen.[i] He didn’t have a window in his room to distract himself from the intensity of his confinement.[ii] He wasn’t allowed to talk to other inmates or even to […]
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