Early voting in the 2018 midterms has begun! Join us this week as T. Greg talks about the items on the North Carolina ballot, an audit showing hundreds of Customs & Border Patrol officers being arrested in just two years, a California gang officer pleading guilty to accepting bribes, and teens being beaten on video in Florida, Illinois, and Virginia.
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Show Notes:

* Federal Circuit: Defendant attaches weed samples to his appeal (Federal Circ COA)
* Sixth Circuit: Police cannot commit puppycide for sport (Reason)

* The opinion in Smith v. Detroit (6th Circ COA)
* Our episode with the District Court opinion (Fsck #20)

* Analysis: Hundreds of police officers nationwide charged with on-duty rapes, “forcible fondling,” and other sex crimes (CNN)
* 500+ Customs & Border Patrol officers arrested over the past two years (NY Times)
* ARKANSAS: Astonishing Radley Balko deep dive into chronic Fourth Amendment violations by the Little Rock Police Department (Washington Post)
* ARKANSAS: State Supreme Court justices petition themselves to have ethics complaints thrown out (ABA Journal)
* CALIFORNIA: State to allow non-violent third-strike offenders to seek parole (LA Times)
* CALIFORNIA: Man released after 9 years in prison as new law dramatically limits state’s Felony Murder Rule (The Marshall Project)
* CALIFORNIA: Oakland PD officer, Alameda County gang expert Harry Hu pleads guilty to accepting bribes (The Mercury News)
* CALIFORNIA: Orange County Sheriff’s deputy Michael Devitt on video brutally beating drunk man unconscious, lies about it, cuts off bodycam when he realizes it’s recording (HuffPost)
* DELAWARE: Tiffany Reeves, mother of 3, dies in prison over unpaid fine (Wilmington News Journal)
* FLORIDA: