Plain accounts of how a system operates: who decides, on what evidence, within what deadline, and what recourse follows a refusal. Topics run from immigration procedure to complaints against public bodies. Intended for people navigating a process themselves and for reporters who need the mechanics straight.
Brady and Rule 16 define the floor, and the reforms after documented wrongful convictions — open files, timelines, sanctions — are the states' attempts to fix what the floor left broken.
Colin Reyes · May 19, 2026
A detainer is a request, not a warrant — it asks a jail to hold someone past their release date, and the courts have spent a decade deciding who pays when the request was wrong.
Colin Reyes · April 26, 2026
The Fourteenth Amendment's one-sentence promise runs on tiers of scrutiny, and which tier applies — strict, intermediate, or rational basis — usually decides the case before it is argued.
Colin Reyes · April 4, 2026
Class certification is the whole ballgame: one ruling on whether a case can proceed for everyone decides whether institutional change happens or each claim dies alone.
Colin Reyes · March 12, 2026
The famous warnings protect statements from use at trial — and almost nothing else: no right to a lawyer present during questioning, no suit for damages, no stop to the interrogation.
Colin Reyes · February 18, 2026