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After Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended elected state attorney Andrew Warren in August 2022 because he vowed not to enforce abortion restrictions and replaced him with a political ally, Warren sued, alleging First Amendment retaliation. District court: Some of the factors that motivated…

Innocent man spends 13 years of a life sentence in prison for a murder in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He alleges that the prosecutor,  Johnny Baer (now a federal…

The Justice Department on Friday said in court papers that it would seek to execute the gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022. It is the first time that President Biden’s administration has sought the death penalty in a new case (…

Louisiana man is kept in prison 41 days after his release date, part of a plague of "inexplicable and illegal over-detention in Louisiana prisons." Can he sue the head of state corrections? Fifth Circuit: Yup, sure can.…

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday that anyone under the age of 21 cannot be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, finding such a sentence constitutes “cruel or unusual punishment” under the Massachusetts Constitution. (…

Detroit man spends more than 20 years in prison for a 12-year-old girl's murder—a crime he did not commit. Indeed, another man's fingerprints are on the murder weapon, and the defendant's confession (…

In his 2023 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. focused on the new technology while steering clear of Supreme Court ethics.

In his…

Peoria, Ill. man is charged with drug crimes after his wife calls in a domestic-violence complaint and tells the police where to find him (which happens to be suspiciously near a bag of cocaine). Man: I would like to testify in my own defense at trial. District court: Of course, but don't you…

Fallout from Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force scandal continues. In this iteration, a man pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a gun that was…

The beleaguered D.C. crime lab has regained partial accreditation after nearly three years of being unable to process evidence fully (access full article).

The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences’…