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The Training Division and Defender Nation pay tribute to the contributions and dedicated service of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs), past and present, have played in our shared mission and commitment to equal justice under law, during May and throughout the…

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide…

The U.S. Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules met and struggled to determine whether or how to draft rules that would allow courts to ensure the authenticity and reliability of trial evidence generated by artificial intelligence (article available…

The relentless pursuit of “non-stop executions” by a rump of death penalty states is exposing prison staff to extreme levels of psychological and physical stress, according to traumatized corrections officers who are appealing for help (…

A jury has awarded $16 million to a Philadelphia man whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 25 years on death row — the largest wrongful conviction payout in city history. (…

On Wednesday, April 24, 2024, President Biden pardoned 11 individuals and commuted the sentence of 5 additional individuals detained in federal prison. In total, 16 detainees…

On April 24, 2024, President Joseph R. Biden nominated Danna Jackson to serve as a federal judge in the United States District Court for the District of Montana. If confirmed , Jackson would be the first American Indian, Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian to serve as a federal judge in Montana (…

Terra Morehead, a longtime county and federal prosecutor who helped police frame at least one innocent man, has agreed to surrender her law license and faces disbarment (…

Terra Morehead, a longtime county and federal prosecutor who helped police frame at least one innocent man, has agreed to surrender her law license and faces disbarment (…

Florida man, among the hundreds that entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was chanting “Whose house? Our house!” D.C. Circuit (unanimously): Not your house. The United States Capitol building is most definitely not your house. There's a reason entry to the Capitol is “strictly regulated…