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Shortly before the 2016 election, self-described Twitter "shitlord" tweets and retweets memes urging supporters of Hillary Clinton to vote by text message. More than four years later, he is criminally indicted for conspiring to injure citizens in the exercise of their right to vote. After four…

The Board of Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York announced the appointment of Clay Kaminsky as magistrate judge.…

Oklahoma City police detain driver whose passenger is wanted for failing to appear in court. The passenger is arrested—but then officers hang around for another ten minutes, until a drug-sniffing dog finally shows up, takes a lap around the car, and alerts. Driver: Sniff happens but this delay…

Cameras capture two men and a woman arriving via Jeep at an Artesia, N.M. motel, leaving two hours later with the woman sobbing, and the men returning three hours later without her.…

As part of the Training Division's continued efforts to spotlight and challenge the systemic and legal issues in pretrial detention, we report the latest from pretrial detainees in Prince George’s County, Md.: The judges here followed bail policies that arbitrarily denied us a shot at release.…

Utah man pleads guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and agrees to criminally forfeit a lot of land. Uh oh! It's not his land, but rather is owned by a friend and former employee—though it was partially paid off with tainted money from the criminal enterprise.…

Prosecutorial immunity is notoriously hard to overcome—so we're ecstatic to report that a Michigan appeals court ruled that…

Today, the Supreme Court by a 5 to 4 vote held that District Courts may apply more lenient law at First Step Act re-sentencings. Hewitt v. United States, No. 23-1002 (June 26, 2025) (opinion). Former Assistant…

Vietnam will end capital punishment for eight categories of serious crime – including embezzlement, attempts to overthrow the government and sabotaging state infrastructure, state-run…

This morning, the Supreme Court held 6 to 3 that death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez has standing to bring his § 1983 claim challenging Texas’s post-conviction DNA testing procedures under the Due Process Clause. Gutierrez v…