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The article reports on the discovery of 11,000 unprocessed rape kits in an abandoned police warehouse in Detroit, Michigan. Topics include calls from around the U.S. for law enforcement to make rape a priority, including the authorization of $41 million by the U.S. House to test and prosecute backlogged kits; a biography of Kym Worthy, a Detroit prosecutor and reportedly one of the few in the country making rape a priority; and the percentage of cases processed that relate to serial rapists.

Discusses how the 19-year-old girl who accused basketball player Kobe Bryant of sexual-assault dropped the criminal lawsuit against him. Consideration of how Bryant apologized to the alleged victim; Ruling of Judge Terry Ruckriegle which allowed Bryant's defense team to ask the accuser about her sex life during a 72-hour window surrounding the incident; Doubt placed on the victim's claims of rape due to her testimony that she had sex immediately following the alleged crime; How the court personnel released privileged information on the court's website by accident; Consideration of how the court leaks revealed the name of the victim which removed protection for her in public.

Offers details on the sexual-assault charges against basketball player Kobe Bryant. Consideration of how Judge Terry Ruckriegle ruled that questions about the accuser's sex life constituted as material that could be used in the trial; Problems associated with how the court accidentally leaked sensitive information such as the alleged victim's name to the public; Role of Eagle County district attorney Mark Hurlbert in leading the prosecution against Bryant; Civil case filed against Bryant by the accuser.

The article discusses the 1966 Miranda decision in the case rape against Thomas Tucker. It elaborates the nature of the investigation and police failure in professional arrest. It presents the implication of police misconduct to the trial and in the investigation proper and in the American justice system in general.

The article discusses a reportedly high-profile rape investigation and four Steubenville, Ohio school system employees who were indicted by a grand jury on November 25, 2013 and stand accused of obstructing an inquiry and failing to report child abuse in reference to several rape allegations.

The article discusses the reported impact that online activists have had on a rape investigation in Nodaway County's Maryville, Missouri as of October 2013, focusing on a call by the state's lieutenant governor for an inquiry into two alleged sexual assaults involving then-high school football players. Nodaway County sheriff Darren White and prosecutor Robert Rice are mentioned, along with Internet activist Anonymous and information about a similar incident which occurred in Steubenville, Ohio.

Describes how the medical records of the accuser were accidentally sent to the defense attorneys of basketball player Kobe Bryant in relation to allegations of his guilt in a rape case. Consideration of how the judge ordered that the records be destroyed; How Bryant's lawyer expressed that black men are often wrongly accused of rape by white women.

The article focuses on homosexual assaults committed by inmates in the prisons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania against prison newcomers as highlighted in a report produced from the investigation of Philadelphia police in 1968. According to the report, newcomers are usually raped by gangs of tougher convicts a day or two of their arrival in prison. Moreover, it tells that investigations were held by authorities as ordered by Judge Alexander Barbieri.

The article offers information regarding the death penalty rule by the five non-U.S. President Richard M. Nixon nominees on the Burger Court last June 29, 1972 in the U.S. Michael Meltsner, one of the talented group lawyers, writes that the death punishment is cruel and unusual. The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund (L.D.F.) attorneys sent a group of students to the South to investigate on the rape sentences of black men of various countries of eleven states. In 1967, the L.D.F. fight against the execution of every man and women on death row exceeding 400 in the U.S. Moreover, the author adds that 19 states have passed new statutes for specific crimes for execution and a district attorneys group organizes a countercampaign.

The article discusses the court case against African American Mack Charles Parker, who was accused of raping a white woman in the U.S. It notes that he was abducted and shot to death by masked men two days before his trial before Circuit Judge Sebe Dale. It states that the case was reopened in May 1959 when the probe of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) established that the federal kidnapping law was not violated.