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The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced the closure of multiple facilities nationwide, citing significant…

Today, in a 6 to 3 opinion written by Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court held that police officers conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they acquired petitioner Chatrie’s location data from Google because an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit have selected Corey Endo as the next Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Washington, according to the Circuit's press release. She succeeds Rene…

Currently, Florida and five other states continue to use fewer than 12 jurors in at least some criminal trials. In Florida, where all noncapital crimes are tried before six-member juries, roughly 5,000 criminal convictions are currently pending on direct appeal. 

Hamed Kian was…

18 U.S.C. § 1519 prohibits only one act: that of falsifying a document. Today, in an unanimous opinion written by Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court held that “[t]he trial for falsifying a document must take place where the defendant falsified the document.”  …

In Whitton v. Dixon, No. 25-580 (June 1, 2026) (per curiam), the Supreme Court held that in federal habeas proceedings, a court cannot consider post-trial evidence that the jury never…

As the COVID-19 pandemic started to abate, the U.S. District Court for the Virgin Islands resumed in-person hearings, with some restrictions. In one such instance, drug traffickers who go by "Bogus" and "Crumbull" challenge their convictions, arguing that the exclusion of observers from the…

In an Idaho tax-fraud trial, just as the jury is on the cusp of a verdict, one juror informs the judge that another juror made a racist comment about people of Mexican ethnicity. Things like, "The Mexicans, all they want to do is screw us over anyway”; Defendant’s employer "could have come up…

The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island has selected Assistant Federal Defender Rebecca L. Aitchison to serve as a full-time U.S. Magistrate Judge, according to the…

Defendant in a North Dakota fraud trial wasn't permitted to introduce statements from a recording of the gov't preparing its star witness, a co-fraudster who received a sweetheart plea deal of pretrial diversion even though he was facing 60 years imprisonment. Defense: I'd like to show portions…