Author: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

There’s a saying that it is better for 10 guilty men to go free, than for one innocent man to be convicted. But while our justice system strives to ensure that only the guilty are incarcerated — or worse, executed — it’s not foolproof. Mistakes are made and justice sometimes is willfully blind. One man […]

In 2011, a 14 year-old Somali refugee named Mohammed Ali Mohammed, raped two different women in Utah. Now, six years later, a female judge has given him probation instead of a transfer from juvenile detention to an adult prison for what he did. He’s 20 now and has spent almost six years at a Salt […]

This is tragic. A North Carolina mother is begging for the return of her 3 year-old daughter. Kristy Woods, of Jacksonville, N.C., put her daughter, Mariah, to bed Sunday night. In the morning, the child was missing. There were no signs of forced entry, but the back door was unlocked. A massive hunt is under […]

In Morristown, New Jersey someone has been vandalizing churches. Over the weekend, police arrested a man in connection with the crimes. Zuri C. Towns, 45, has since confessed to breaking signs and windows at the predominantly African-American churches. Towns attended church as a child at one of the churches. He was charged with four counts […]

I remember when this happened in October of 2016. Authorities have now charged Julia Poff with sending homemade bombs to President Barack Obama and Texas Governor Greg Abbott that prosecutors say could have maimed or killed the two leaders. The woman is from Sealy, Texas. Her undoing was cat hair, if you can believe it. […]