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Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to decide "[w]hether Stinson v. United States, 508 U. S. 36 (1993), still correctly states the rule for the deference that courts must give the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines."…

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has appointed Katherine Tang Newberger as the next Federal Defender for the District of Maryland.

Before her appointment, she served as the First Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland, where she has…

A report in The Atlantic says FBI Director Kash Patel is often missing. The story cites more than two dozen…

After 17 years serving a life sentence for a murder he did not commit, Nicholas Sias is finally free—thanks to Oregon Assistant Federal Defender Susan F. Wilk and the Oregon Innocence Project.

Convicted in a 2009 Beaverton stabbing case, Mr. Sias’s conviction rested on deeply flawed…

President Trump on Thursday announced he has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi. 

Before joining DOJ in February 2025, she was a partner at lobbying firm, a board member for…

A federal judge in Orlando issued an order this week admonishing the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, but stopped short of imposing sanctions according to…

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit announced today the appointment of Charles "Chuck" Willson as the Federal Public Defender for the District of Connecticut.

Brad Schimel had been interim U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, but that appointment expired on March 16. Schimel could have been made the U.S. Attorney by the district's federal judges, but they declined to do so, according to the…

Man uploads files containing The Bad Stuff to his Google Drive account. Google tips off law enforcement, and a detective has a peek at a few files without a warrant. When law enforcement follow up months later, the man confesses and directs officers to incriminating evidence.…

In a tense and highly unusual courtroom clash, a federal judge ejected a senior federal prosecutor during a sentencing hearing and pressed the prosecution over who is actually in charge of the New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office, according to the…