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"Limiting the Government’s Ability to Impeach Our Clients with Prior Convictions: 'Substantial' Developments to Federal Rule of Evidence 609" was written by Rene L. Valladares, Federal Defender District of Nevada, and Hannah Nelson, Assistant Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada for the…

President Trump said on Tuesday that his administration would seek the death penalty for all murder cases in Washington, D.C., the latest escalation of his show of force in the nation’s capital that…

Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant policy concern—it is already shaping evidence, risk assessments, and sentencing recommendations in federal courtrooms. For defense lawyers, the challenge is not just understanding what these tools claim to measure, but also exposing their blind…

Lawyers and law enforcement experts have been warning about the potential for overreach since the federal government muscled its way into policing decisions in the nation's capital nearly three…

A woman convicted of murder in Maryland won a new trial after showing her lawyer was ineffective. But it proved a Pyrrhic victory: during her motion for a new trial, the court made her hand over privileged files and let the same prosecutors "scour" them. At the retrial, the state leaned heavily…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongfully deported to a notorious El Salvador prison and later returned to the U.S., was…

President Donald Trump’s administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it…

A federal court issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center…

Judge Frank Caprio, renowned for his compassion in Rhode Island courts and his heartwarming viral…

A federal judge on Thursday, in a 77-page ruling, said the president’s former personal lawyer…