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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…

After mass departures at U.S. attorneys' offices, the Department of Justice is waiving a policy requiring newly hired federal prosecutors to have at least one year of experience practicing law, according to…

Defender Services has announced the launch of the Supreme Court Advocacy Project, a centralized effort to coordinate Supreme Court litigation to sharpen the defense bar’s performance before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The project aims to bolster high court practice and build a pipeline of…

An assistant U.S. attorney in North Carolina, Rudy Renfer, filed a court response containing “fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” and then made “false or misleading statements” about how they were included, a federal court found according to a…