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Today, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is granting clemency to 11 individuals who are serving long sentences for non-violent drug offenses (DOJ press release available…

Pennsylvania police officer stops a black man for minor traffic violations. The cop first does a routine warrant check, which turns up nothing, but then spends an additional couple of minutes on a criminal-history check on the driver and passenger, discovering both have criminal histories. He…

Jones County, Iowa man—who is suspected of fencing stolen property—is using a trailer on the north side of the road. Defendant is another man living in a house on the south side of the road. Police have no evidence the two even know each other, let alone that stolen property is being stored in…

A tale as old as time. Woman meets Man. Woman marries Man. They have a child. They divorce. Woman assumes full custody of the child. Man agrees to pay child support and buy a new car for Woman every three years until their child turns nineteen. Years later, Man is sued by the SEC for securities…

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in four criminal cases:

In Fischer v. United States, No. 23-5572, the Justices will decide if the D.C. Circuit erred in construing…

The Federal Rules of Evidence govern the admission or exclusion of evidence in most proceedings in the United States courts.

The Supreme Court submitted proposed Federal Rules of Evidence to Congress on February 5, 1973, but…

The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Richard E.N. Federico to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit based in Denver, adding a second public defender to the circuit court (article available…

The occasional mistrial in a fact-heavy criminal case is a job hazard prosecutors and defense attorneys have come to expect, but a lone juror's sudden sabotage of a guilty verdict last week was a first to many in the New Jersey federal courthouse (article available…

Loren AliKhan was confirmed as the first South Asian woman to serve on the federal trial court in the District of Columbia.

An associate judge on the DC Court of Appeals, AliKhan was confirmed on Tuesday.

AliKhan is the latest in a string of historic judicial “…

The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed U.S. Magistrate Irma Carrillo Ramirez as the first Latina judge to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, giving President Joe Biden his second appointee to the court (article available…