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Interesting local sentencing story implicating racial and free press issues

By Douglas A. Berman

I just came across this interesting local sentencing story that seems to involve a lot more than just sentencing law and policy.  Here are the basics: Diane Bukowski, a reporter for the African-American owned Michigan Citizen newspaper, was given one year of probation, 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay $4,000 in fines Monday morning after being convicted of two felony counts of police obstruction last month. Bukowski was arrested at the scene of a fatal high-speed police chase crash in northeast Detroit last November.  Her conviction has been seen as a political attack from the office of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy because of Bukowski?s dogged reporting of police brutality and related justice issues in Detroit.  Bukowksi has criticized the Wayne County prosecutor?s office for not responding to these incidents or investigating police officers who were accused of violence and rape...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).