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President Donald Trump on Monday named his one-time defense attorney and current White House counselor Alina Habba to be the interim top federal prosecutor in the District of New Jersey (…

Two transgender women in prison will be transferred back to a women’s prison after a district court further blocked the Trump administration’s executive order requiring the Bureau of Prisons to only recognize a person’s gender at birth (…

Des Moines, Iowa driver passes a police car and extends his middle finger for a stately eleven blocks as they tail him. At which point the officers arrest him (ostensibly for cutting off another car) and engage in the sort of manhandling you'd expect of cops who'd been on the receiving end of an…

This Eleventh Circuit decision is a good reminder that you shouldn't escape from prison and then create a new life by stealing a dead man's identity. Or, at least, if you do that, when you're caught…

North Carolina man pleads guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, with a guideline sentencing range of 41-51 months. He's sentenced to 114 months, largely based on evidence he committed violent acts while behind bars awaiting sentencing.…

What do you call it when DEA agents put up a video camera that records the exterior of your property 24/7, with ability to remotely tilt, pan, and zoom the camera —without a warrant for 50 days?…

It may seem surprising that prosecutors felt the need to withhold Brady material to convict a 23-year-old who allegedly stabbed an octogenarian 58 times, bludgeoned him with an iron, and then shoved a lamp down his throat while he was still alive. But that's what they did, failing to…

President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardon of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot does not extend to the separate crimes of one rioter who plotted to murder the law enforcement agents who…

A South Carolina man was shot to death by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method (view full article).

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This morning the United States Sentencing Commission published a new report on Overdoses in Federal Drug Trafficking Crimes;…