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This Tenth Circuit case is interesting for two reasons. One, it accepts the government's concession that it's plain error to sentence an assault defendant more harshly simply…

The Justice Department said on Friday it was seeking to expand the use of the death penalty in federal capital cases and add the firing squad, electrocution and gas to lethal injection as methods of execution, according to…

The Trump administration announced Friday that it will authorize firing squads as a federally permitted method of execution, deepening its push to revive the death penalty…

Apparently, the key to a life well lived is to find a partner that you relish as much as the …

Most criminal defendants try to avoid being sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act, which sets a 15-year mandatory minimum for certain defendants if they have three previous convictions for certain qualifying offenses. Defendant: In the district court, I pleaded guilty and accidentally…

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…