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Not “approved the wrong draft.”

Not “approved it but the transcript got lost.”

No.

They straight-up skipped the entire indictment step and hoped nobody would notice.

The government forgot the literal requirement for an indictment.

Having an indictment.

If this wasn’t happening in real life, you’d assume it was a satire about a collapsing empire.

// Rafael Barba x Original Character \\

Summary: Rafael Barba never intended to fall for Melanie Dodds, but now that he had... He was slowly beginning to uncover that there may be far more to the rough and tumble Detective than meets the eye.

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Chapter 1: An Evening at Forlini’s

Chapter 2: A Regular Friday Morning

Chapter 3: Deputy Chief William Dodds

Chapter 4: Certified Scuba Diver, Melanie Dodds

Chapter 5: A Pretzel, A Pigeon and A Patrol Officer

Chapter 6: A Game of Subway Surfers

Chapter 7: A Long Awaited Reunion

Chapter 8: A Whirlwind of Emotions

Chapter 9: A Little Brotherly Advice

Chapter 10: Targeted Misfortune

Chapters: 10/? (on hold)

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A single mistake in how evidence is handled can turn a strong case into a disaster.

That’s the power of chain of custody. It’s the process that tracks every step of how evidence moves—from the crime scene to the courtroom. And when it’s broken, the whole case can fall apart.

It’s not just a technicality. It’s the reason OJ’s glove evidence got questioned. It’s why JonBenét Ramsey’s case remains unsolved. And it’s why charges were dropped in over 60 cases in Orange County alone.

Justice needs more than evidence.

It needs proof that the system didn’t fumble it.

New blog now live on Raw Reflections.

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The Trump administration executed 40-year-old Brandon Bernard on Thursday, his punishment for acting as an accomplice to a crime when he was 18 years old.

The government went through with the killing despite high-profile opposition from 5 of 9 surviving jurors who sentenced Bernard to death, the prosecutor who defended his death sentence on appeal, several members of Congress, 23 current and former prosecutors, reality television star and criminal justice reform advocate Kim Kardashian West, and The Washington Post’s editorial board. Hours before the execution, controversial lawyers Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr — who worked on President Donald Trump’s legal team during his impeachment — joined Bernard’s defense team. 

Bernard was killed by lethal injection at 9:27 p.m. The Supreme Court denied a last-minute stay of execution for Bernard, with Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting.