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Justice Department have started requiring all prosecutors to maintain at least 25 open cases, tightening the Trump administration’s grip on operational decisions previously left to US attorneys,…

Pittsburgh dentist has a years-long affair with his dental hygienist, culminating in murdering his wife on safari in Zambia while staging it to look like suicide. (He can't watch the multitude of documentaries, given his forever-prison sentence, but you can.) As for his paramour, she was…

FBI searches drug dealer's home and seizes $585k in cash from a safe. Yikes! Sticky-fingered special agent Scott Bowman…

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

Okaloosa County, Fla. officers raid home, force suspect's girlfriend out of the house in the nude. She's given insufficient material to cover herself and is in view of male officers and her minor children for nearly 40 minutes. Eleventh Circuit (unpublished): A jury might find she was prevented…

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…