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At this year’s Newsmaker event last night, the Rhode Island Women’s Bar Association and Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly recognized the extraordinary leadership of Tara I. Allen, Federal Defender…

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Alina Habba, whom the administration has maneuvered to keep in place as New Jersey top federal prosecutor, is …

When Kyle Kjoller, a 57-year-old welder, was ordered held without bail in Nevada County, Calif., in April, he protested. The charges against him — multiple counts of illegal gun possession — were not grave enough under California law to warrant keeping him in jail for months awaiting his trial (…

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the Justice Department's criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James,…

Suspecting a black man who'd been running through Glynn County, Ga. neighborhood of recent burglaries, white men hop in trucks, chase him down, block his path, and shoot him dead.…

Calvin Duncan spent nearly 30 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Last week, he won the election for clerk of court in New Orleans Parish, a role he calls his dream job. See…

A California federal court dismissed a criminal case without prejudice after finding that the defendant's constitutional right to counsel was violated by a funding shortfall…

Congress is one step closer to ending the longest government shutdown in American history. The Senate approved a funding bill by a 60 to 40 vote. The agreement includes funding for Defender Services, some of whom haven't been paid since July, and security for U.S. Supreme Court justices.…

New York man is convicted in 2022 on charges of securities fraud, making false filings with the SEC, and improperly influencing the conduct of audits. This comes as a real…

More than 50 private attorneys and contractors in New Mexico announced on Wednesday that they will stop taking new cases where they would represent federal defendants who cannot afford their own lawyers, citing a funding crisis that has left them unpaid since early July.…