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Florida is no stranger to executing men and women with severe mental illness, including military veterans with service-connected trauma. While Florida is prepping to execute veteran Kyle Bates on August 19th—its fourth veteran and tenth execution this year—a coalition of military veterans…

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has selected Alejandro B. Fernandez to serve as Federal Public Defender for the District of Vermont. 

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Your humble summarist finds it outrageous—indefensible!—that some judges brazenly repeatedly used the phrase "Hobson's choice" to refer to mere dilemmas. In perhaps more significant news, the…

Following the sweeping hack to the federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system (CM/ECF), some federals courts are issuing orders that all documents under seal shall be filed only in paper formats. See …

The U.S. Sentencing Commission on Wednesday said it will consider potential reforms to the federal sentencing guidelines for fraud offenses, including the outsized role of loss calculation in sentencing, one of several priorities the agency has marked for closer examination.…

Today, Judge Carlton W. Reeves, Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, announced the appointment of nine individuals to serve on the newly established Sentence Impact Advisory Group (SIAG).  Advisory groups provide Commissioners with important perspectives that help them in policy…

In Indiana, a "buffer" law makes it illegal to approach within 25 feet of a police officer who has ordered you to stop approaching. District court: preliminarily enjoined as vague.…

The U.S. federal judiciary's electronic case filing system has been compromised in a sweeping hack that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data in several…

Crime decreased in every category in 2024, including murder, violent crime and motor vehicle thefts, according to the bureau's annual Reported Crimes in the Nation…

The Stored Communications Act allows the government to subpoena social-media companies for user data, and it even allows those subpoenas to be kept secret from the user—but only if a court determines that certain statutory conditions justifying secrecy are met. The government: So when we…