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Florida man: requiring registration and reporting after completing my sentence of probation on a charge of lewd or lascivious conduct constitutes illegal custody. Files habeas. To seek a writ of habeas corpus, one must be "in custody," and that doesn't necessarily mean "physical custody" (per…

In Lackawanna County, Penn., if a court finds you can afford to pay child support but you didn't, you get a prison term and won't have access to work-release to earn money unless you spend the first half of the sentence doing "community service" at a private recycling center, for nearly no pay…

A 90-year-old North Carolina law makes it a crime to publish a "derogatory report" about a candidate for office if the speaker knows the report is false or speaks with reckless disregard for its truth or falsity. A campaign threatened with prosecution under the law brings a First Amendment…

Can a neo-nazi fairly represent a Jewish client? Can a Blue Lives Matter believer zealously serve a Black client? (access full article).

Those were some of the hypotheticals Massachusetts’…

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…