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Police: Our search of the defendant's backpack was valid because our only alternative to impounding it would have been to abandon it in public. It's not like we could just give it to the mysterious stranger who came up mere seconds after the defendant asked for his "girl" and who kept asking us…

Today, the United States Sentencing Commission published its 2022 Annual Report and Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics.

Here are some…

From footnote nine of this Second Circuit opinion, you get the sense that the court (2-1) doesn't think it should take 26 pages and a chart to explain why a racketeer who shot and killed someone committed a "crime of violence." Concurrence: Oh stop it. There is no reason to criticize the…

The Speedy Trial Act says that a federal criminal defendant has a right to be tried within 70 days of his initial appearance, so this guy who had to wait almost a thousand days for his trial has a pretty good argument, right?…

The Judicial Conference of the United States today agreed to recommend to Congress the creation of new district and court of appeals judgeships to meet workload demands in certain courts.

Sayfullo Saipov, a native of Uzbekistan who was convicted of killing eight people in a 2017 terrorist truck attack on a Hudson River bike path, will be sentenced to life in prison after members of a Manhattan federal jury deadlocked as they decided his fate (…

The Louisville Metro Police Department routinely uses excessive force and practices “an aggressive style of policing” against Black people, the Justice Department said Wednesday after an investigation launched following the botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor. (…

Allegation: Inmate at Rush City, Minn. correctional facility is attacked with a shank when he declines to pay off his cellmate's drug debt. He (and his family) repeatedly asked the prison for a transfer to another facility, but officials decline (in part because the assailant attests "the issue…

The University of Maryland announces its newly-built 70,000-square foot state-of-the-art School of Public Policy building will…

The Department of Justice on Friday launched an application for eligible individuals to receive certificate of proof that they were pardoned under the Oct. 6, 2022, proclamation by President Biden (…