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A misconduct complaint has been lodged against a San Diego, California, federal judge who recently handcuffed a crying 13-year-old girl in his courtroom during a court hearing…

Two guys go walking down the sidewalk of a Richmond, Va. housing complex. Cops see them, recognize them, and accuse them of trespassing based partly upon a trespassing arrest from eight years ago. Cops ask the guys to lift their shirts. One does, one kind of does. The kind-of one is also wearing…

The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) used pentobarbital, also called Nembutal, to execute 13 people between July 2020 and January 2021. Nonprofit group requested the names of suppliers of the lethal injection drug. BOP: Request denied. FOIA allows agencies to withhold "confidential" and "commercial"…

A Southern District of California federal court decided to traumatize a child for attending a public hearing to support her father (view full article).

The events arose…

Is a South Carolina law that prohibits conducting oneself "in a disorderly or boisterous manner" unconstitutionally vague as applied to school children? Given that the state refers hundreds of them for prosecution each year, it sure seems to matter.…

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of John Montenegro Cruz, an Arizona prisoner who was sentenced to death by a jury that was not told a life without parole sentence meant he would never be released. See Cruz v.…

In 2013, a woman complains on social media about a Spotsylvania County, Va. sheriff Marcia Curtis who cited her for a parking violation. In 2019, the woman is pulled over by a different officer, deputy Jaime Riley (for passing a school bus as kids were boarding). The first officer (Curtis) calls…

Feds: Hey Second Circuit, could you issue a revised opinion in this drug sentencing case to make non-precedential a December opinion that found the federal controlled substances list was narrower than New York state's? We want you to make clear that the part that could help out future New York…

Oklahoma’s “nonstop executions” traumatized corrections staff, leaving them vulnerable to mental health distress and botched procedures, nine former Department of Corrections officials warned last month (…

Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday he will not allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and called for the state’s lawmakers to repeal the death penalty (…