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The U.S. Sentencing Commission approved new guidelines on Wednesday that will expand federal inmates' ability to qualify for compassionate release from prison (view full article…

If you're charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm but you don't know you're a felon, are you really a felon in possession of a firearm? Fourth Circuit: Nope, not according to the Supreme Court. That means our friend…

Attorneys for accused synagogue shooter Robert Bowers have again asked for the death penalty to be taken off the table (view full…

People who fight multicount indictments at trial lose even if they beat most of the charges—all it takes is one conviction to face a sentence that reflects every count charged. But that may be starting to change (…

Malaysia's parliament on Monday passed sweeping legal reforms to remove the mandatory death penalty, trim the number of offences punishable by death, and abolish natural-life prison sentences, a move cautiously welcomed by rights groups (…

A California police union executive director allegedly ran a drug ring from her home and used her office computer and UPS account to order and distribute opioids and…

Via the Seventh Circuit: In which the defendant's connection to Jared Fogle isn't even close to the fascinating part of the story, which for now results in a remand to determine whether Indiana State…

After his indictment on drug conspiracy charges, man's arrest warrant mysteriously vanishes from the FBI's database. Human error? A technical glitch? Divine intervention? Eighth Circuit: Shrugs. We'll never know. But what we do…

Disgruntled lawyers may grumble about a judge in private. Really disgruntled lawyers might even post disparaging Facebook comments on the judge's personal Facebook page. Only super-mega-disgruntled lawyers, though, file First Amendment lawsuits against judges who block them from posting…

Over the course of more than a decade a New York federal court clerk illegally referred dozens of criminal defendants to a New York City attorney who paid the clerk tens of thousands of dollars in referral fees since 2011, according to a grand jury indictment on Thursday that charged the pair…