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After a jury awards $45 mil to man wrongfully imprisoned for 21 years, a federal judge finds that Miami Twp., Ohio is on the hook to indemnify detective Matthew Scott Moore who bungled the investigation.…

New Orleans judge Paul Bonin tells pretrial criminal defendants to pay up to $300/month to a private, for-profit ankle-monitoring company or stay in jail. Judge does not tell defendants that the company is owned by his former law partner, who regularly donated to the judge's judicial campaigns (…

When Rodney Reed first tried to challenge the constitutionality of Texas's postconviction DNA-testing procedures, the Fifth Circuit held his claim time-barred. Supreme Court(2023…

A man freely chats with cops about his involvement in a riverside gunfight, admitting that he fired shots during the attack. Two years later, at trial, he claims that his participation was under duress; the prosecutor reminds the jury that this defense is a "brand-new story" told for the first…

A Schrödinger’s motion that has vexed habeas practitioners: How long must a motion for an injunction gather dust on a district judge's desk before it is "constructively denied," allowing the movant to appeal (here, Amazon seeking relief from some NLRB rulings)?…

And in en banc news, the Sixth Circuit will reconsider its decision, previously…

Buffalo, N.Y. detective Mark Stambach feeds nonpublic information about a 2004 double murder to a schizophrenic man, who then "confesses" and spends over 10 years in prison before being exonerated. There was no other evidence corroborating Ortiz’s involvement. (And oh, other culprits…

Trespassing charges for dozens who crossed into a new military zone in New Mexico have been dismissed by a federal magistrate judge.

The …

Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University undergraduate whom the Trump administration is trying to deport because of his on-campus criticism of Israel, will be…

In a well reasoned decision, a District of Nevada federal court struck the government’s newly filed death notice in a case, citing principles of judicial estoppel and a lack of justification for a sudden reversal.

The ruling in United…