Facial Recognition is a technology capable of identifying (or verifying) a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. There are multiple methods in which facial recognition systems work, but in general, they work by comparing selected facial features from given images with faces within a database. Recent studies, however, highlight serious detrimental concerns which include the increasing production of false positives. Yet this technology has proliferat

The Supreme Court is considering whether Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 when he and his partner killed ten people in the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), should be entitled to a new sentencing hearing. While it is unlikely that Mr. Malvo will ever leave the confines of his prison cell, his case could give hope to other juvenile offenders serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. If you were not in diapers back in 2002, you probably remember the

In 1992, Levon Brooks was sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl. Four months after his conviction, another three-year-old girl was raped and murdered; Kennedy Brewer would be sentenced to death for this crime in 1995. Bite mark analysis played a major role in securing both of their convictions. In 2008, both men were set free and exonerated after DNA testing proved that the same man, Justin Albert Johnson, had actually killed both little

On September 27, three House Committees issued subpoenas demanding that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo turn over documents related to State Department correspondence and interaction with Ukraine by October 4 as part of the House’s ongoing investigation into a possible impeachment of President Trump. The subpoenas’ deadline came and went, with Secretary Pompeo not only failing to provide Congress with any of the requested documents, but with the Secretary also accusing the Hou

Maryland’s Court of Appeals quoted Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are-A-Changing” in a ruling earlier this year, which held that the smell of marijuana alone no longer provides police with probable cause to search an individual’s person. For decades, police officers used the odor of marijuana as a means of justifying a warrantless search of a person or his vehicle. Often, police officers would cite the smell of marijuana as the only basis for probable cause. The claim alone gave