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Everyone loves a good metaphor. But pro tip for prosecutors: In your closing argument urging that a defendant be convicted for enticing a minor, maybe don't present a full-body image of the guy naked in his shower before launching into a dramatic monologue about how the "cloak" of the…

Former Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip, 63, was released from incarceration for the first time in nearly 30 years Thursday after posting a $500,000 bond while awaiting retrial for a 1997 homicide case that put him on death row, according to the…

A federal judge in Michigan was sentenced on Wednesday to six months of probation and ordered to pay $1,175 in fees and costs after he pleaded no contest on Wednesday ​to a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge, according to…

This Tenth Circuit case is interesting for two reasons. One, it accepts the government's concession that it's plain error to sentence an assault defendant more harshly simply…

The Justice Department said on Friday it was seeking to expand the use of the death penalty in federal capital cases and add the firing squad, electrocution and gas to lethal injection as methods of execution, according to…

The Trump administration announced Friday that it will authorize firing squads as a federally permitted method of execution, deepening its push to revive the death penalty…

Apparently, the key to a life well lived is to find a partner that you relish as much as the …

Most criminal defendants try to avoid being sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act, which sets a 15-year mandatory minimum for certain defendants if they have three previous convictions for certain qualifying offenses. Defendant: In the district court, I pleaded guilty and accidentally…

Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to decide "[w]hether Stinson v. United States, 508 U. S. 36 (1993), still correctly states the rule for the deference that courts must give the commentary to the Sentencing Guidelines."…

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has appointed Katherine Tang Newberger as the next Federal Defender for the District of Maryland.

Before her appointment, she served as the First Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland, where she has…