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Seventeen-and-a-half-year-old girl, a member of the Choctaw nation, allegedly plans the murder of her abusive and neglectful parents by two underage friends. The government charges her with two counts of first-degree murder, crimes for which the mandated punishments—death or life without parole—…

Indigenous man from Guatemala who fled his home city of Sacatepéquez because of frequent beatings and death threats from a local MS13-affiliated gang against him and his family: this qualifies as persecution. Board of Immigration Appeals: Sure, a gang harassed you, threatened you, and repeatedly…

Alleged gang member is convicted of witness retaliation and sentenced to three years in prison after attacking a former member of his gang on the street in the Bronx. At trial, man asks court to explore potential gang bias during jury selection. Trial court: no, it would be “improper,” and will…

In en banc news, the Ninth Circuit will not reconsider its opinion that "and" does not mean "or" in a case about the First…

One of the macabre facet of Eighth Amendment death penalty litigation is that a person on death row challenging their method of execution must propose an alternative.

Man on Georgia death row: requests execution by firing squad instead of lethal injection because a medication he is taking…

Federal law bars individuals from possessing guns if they are “subject to a court order that restrains [them] from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner.” Fifth Circuit: This violates the Second Amendment as there is…

February marks Black History Month, a tradition that got its start in the Jim Crow era and was officially recognized in 1976 as part of the nation's bicentennial celebrations. It aims to honor the contributions that African Americans have made and to recognize their sacrifices.

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If you want to get a bunch of lawyers to all agree on something, try changing a court’s filing deadline from midnight to 5 p.m.

That’s what the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is proposing for electronic and in-person filings, and practicing attorneys overwhelmingly hate the idea…

A federal appeals court on Tuesday proposed putting a stop to lawyers and paralegals working up until midnight to complete briefs and other court documents due that day by setting the deadline to electronically file them at 5 p.m. (…

Today, the en banc Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion that will give some drug defendant’s a big help at sentencing. See United States v. Dupree, No. 9-13776 (11th Cir. Jan.18, 2023)(en banc). In Dupree, the…