By: Halley Taylor Though women have served in the United States military in various capacities for more than a century[1], military officials and military doctors have failed in large part to adapt their practices and attitudes, causing women to suffer serious health problems with effects impacting both their military and civilian lives for years.[2] Women serving in the military today put their lives on the … Continue reading Female Soldiers’ Health at Risk Under Current Military Practices

By: Pete Johnson Every public defender—whether  young or seasoned—knows the story of Clarence Earl Gideon, an indigent Florida defendant who hand-wrote a note to America’s highest court declaring that he had a right to an attorney.[1] Gideon’s inspirational story led to the landmark Supreme Court decision of Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the Court ruled that Gideon’s 6th Amendment constitutional rights were violated when he … Continue reading Appoint Public Defenders to Federal and State Courts

PC: https://www.kiplinger.com/article/taxes/T055-C032-S014-5-ways-to-help-control-your-taxes-in-retirement.html By: Terri Morris The 2019 tax filing season had a slow start as the IRS and many other federal government agencies were forced to halt operations due to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history.[1] The IRS closure left Americans wondering how and when they would be able to file their income tax returns.[2] The federal government reopened on January 25, 2019, after … Continue reading Americans Start to Feel the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

By: Gianna Fienberg In April 2018, Virginia took the important step of ensuring the incarcerated had access to menstrual products at no cost through the enactment of House Bill 83.[1] The bill directed the State Board of Corrections and the Director of the Department of Corrections to adopt and implement a standard or policy “to ensure the provision of feminine hygiene products to female inmates … Continue reading Periods & Prisons: Virginia’s Recent Struggle to Improve Menstrual Equity in State Facilities

By: Randell Scism When a child is a victim of a crime, not only must they deal with the emotional consequences of that experience, but they may have to deal with the potentially traumatizing effects of the legal involvement.[1] Child abusers are criminally sanctioned, but that requires the child victim to endure the long and traumatic road through trial.[2] It is not uncommon for children … Continue reading (Hu)man’s Best Friend: How Therapy Dogs Can Help Child Victims Testify in Court

PC: https://fox6now.com/2019/01/11/what-we-know-about-the-suspect-in-the-kidnapping-of-jayme-closs/ By: Jackie Cipolla The Badger State has had its share of high profile murders in the past two decades. The Netflix documentary, Making a Murderer, sparked a national debate over Steven Avery’s alleged murder of Teresa Halbach in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.[1] Avery’s attorneys put forward the defense of a corrupt sheriff’s department that planted incriminating evidence, but to no avail as a Manitowoc jury … Continue reading “Making *Another* Murderer”: Possible Defenses for Jake Patterson for the Murder of Jayme Closs’s Family