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Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant policy concern—it is already shaping evidence, risk assessments, and sentencing recommendations in federal courtrooms. For defense lawyers, the challenge is not just understanding what these tools claim to measure, but also exposing their blind…

Lawyers and law enforcement experts have been warning about the potential for overreach since the federal government muscled its way into policing decisions in the nation's capital nearly three…

A woman convicted of murder in Maryland won a new trial after showing her lawyer was ineffective. But it proved a Pyrrhic victory: during her motion for a new trial, the court made her hand over privileged files and let the same prosecutors "scour" them. At the retrial, the state leaned heavily…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongfully deported to a notorious El Salvador prison and later returned to the U.S., was…

A federal court issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center…

President Donald Trump’s administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it…

Judge Frank Caprio, renowned for his compassion in Rhode Island courts and his heartwarming viral…

A federal judge on Thursday, in a 77-page ruling, said the president’s former personal lawyer…

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee implored congressional appropriators to ensure that the federal public defender program has adequate funding for fiscal year 2026 after budget shortfalls. See…

As members of the National Guard deploy to the nation's capital as part of the Trump administration's takeover of policing in Washington, members of the military are also set to take on prosecutorial roles handling civilian crimes. See full…