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If prosecutors don't turn over potentially exculpatory evidence and a person on death row finds out about it (by accident) years later, does that mean he gets a new trial? Well, explains the…

Federal public defenders system could need to cut as many as 500 from its staff charged with protecting the rights of poor criminal defendants, because of a budgeting error by Congress that could leave it with a 3% to 5% shortfall, officials said (…

As record-breaking heat broils Dallas-Fort Worth, people incarcerated in federal prisons in North Texas face potentially deadly conditions due to inadequate air conditioning, according to an advocate and family members (article available…

Connecticut prisoner has an "intolerable" scalp condition consisting of painful scabs and oozing sores. Prison officials allegedly deny treatment for years. District court: there are no binding cases holding that a scalp condition is a serious medical need requiring treatment. Second Circuit:…

An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday threw out a first-degree murder conviction because of a sexual relationship between the judge and a prosecutor in the case (article available…

U.S. Circuit Judge Albert Diaz has been named the next chief judge of the Fourth Circuit and is the first Hispanic jurist to helm the federal appellate court, replacing outgoing Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory (article available…

For two years, a New Jersey judge used a pseudonym to post roughly 40 publicly available videos on TikTok videos of himself lip-syncing lyrics from popular rap songs; Eleven were deemed inappropriate by the judicial conduct committee. (article available…

It is obviously unreasonable for an off-duty, out-of-uniform police officer to lose his temper on the road, follow another motorist home, box him in his driveway, scream profanities, all before identifying himself as law enforcement, and point a gun at the nonthreatening motorist. At least so…

In en banc news, the Ninth Circuit will not reconsider its decision that the Cruel and Unusual…

Allegation: After Montgomery County, Ky. officials are ordered to obtain exculpatory evidence from a witness and turn it over to the defense, a prosecutor instead tells the witness to destroy the evidence. (She does.) Man, age 56, spent two years in jail facing a potential death sentence for a…