The Dirty Underbelly of Probation

If you ever want to know how much crazy sh*t can happen in a week, start a podcast! This week we cover Pumpkin Pinochet’s week-long disaster of a trip abroad, Montana’s new journalist-slamming Congresscritter, police abusing the young and the old, and for this week’s #Law140 we take a look at probation and how Ramad Chatman will be serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. Show Notes: * Naranjillo Nixon arms the Saudis’ war in Yemen (CNBC) * Memes of his Orb of Doom photo-op (Mashable) * Upside: Steve Bannon had fun (Observer) * Watch the facepalm from the guy on the right (Slate) * Dorito Duterte confirms it was Israel’s info he disclosed (Business Insider) * Then pushes the Prime Minister of Montenegro (The Sun) * Just before whining about NATO (CNN) * And insulting the Germans (NY Times) * At which point Merkel said YOLO (NY Times) * First Kid Kushner wanted secret communication with the Soviets (Washington Post) * Greg “Journo-Slammer” Gianforte becomes Montana’s newest Congresscritter (The Guardian) * SCOTUS takes no position on NC’s Voter ID law (NY Times) * But does invalidate 2 of our Congressional districts (NY Times) * Los Angeles CA police beat a 76-year-old black woman for sport (CBS Los Angeles) * San Antonio TX police beat a 14-year-old Hispanic girl for sport (The Root) * Ramad Chatman was acquitted, then sent to jail anyway (NBC 11) * Morrisey v. Brewer (Oyez) * North Carolina v. Greer (Casetext) * North Carolina v. Debnam (Casetext) * Johnson v. Georgia (Justia) *