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Patrick Megaro, an attorney, outside the federal courthouse in Raleigh, N.C., after a ​2017 hearing ​​about his legal fees for representing Leon Brown and Henry McCollum.
News April 20, 2018
A Lawyer Who Helped an Exoneree Blow Through $750,000 Is Under Investigation
The North Carolina State Bar probes Patrick Megaro.
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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, right, during a news conference in June amid a sex scandal involving several city police officers.
Commentary August 16, 2016
What the DOJ’s Report on Baltimore Teaches Us About Cops, Sex Workers, and Corruption
A look inside a culture of pervasive misconduct.
By Ethan Brown
Case in Point August 15, 2016
The Case of the Do-Nothing Judge
Suppose a judge decides not to decide. For five years.
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Q&A July 15, 2016
Dallas’s Deputy Chief on Race, Despair, and Learning from Police Shootings
“My life has to matter, too.”
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Commentary March 8, 2016
Death by Indifference
Remembering Robert Knott, a case the Justice Department would rather you forget
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Life Inside February 25, 2016
What It’s Like to Be Gay in Prison
When the people in charge are homophobic.
By Corbett J. Yost
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives held a demonstration for students at the Horry County Police Department Bomb Squad near Myrtle Beach, S.C. in 2013.
News May 19, 2015
ATF’s Greatest Hits
Is it time to dismantle the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives?
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News February 4, 2015
When Police Go Rogue on Facebook
And you thought it was only teenagers...
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News December 10, 2014
What Can You Do With a Drunken Lawyer?
Not much. Which may be why Robert Holsey is dead.
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Feature November 16, 2014
Death by Deadline, Part Two
When lawyers stumble, only their clients fall.
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