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For some clever lawyering, check out this Eighth Circuit (2-1) decision. In 2024, the Supreme Court held in…

A federal judge in Tennessee cleared Kilmar Abrego Garcia of all criminal charges. His…

Long novels teach us patience: endure enough chapters and eventually the villains get their comeuppance. Civil rights cases are less reliable in this regard. Accountability often arrives late, diluted, or not at all. But the…

The circuit splitting continues. Sixth Circuit (2-1): Non-citizens in the country who were never lawfully admitted to the country are not subject to mandatory detention without bond pending their removal proceedings. The law “ensures that noncitizens like Petitioners…

The circuit splitting continues. Sixth Circuit (2-1): Non-citizens in the country who were never lawfully admitted to the country are not subject to mandatory detention without bond pending their removal proceedings. The law “ensures that noncitizens like Petitioners…

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…