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Dec. 17, 2023

Jones County, Iowa man—who is suspected of fencing stolen property—is using a trailer on the north side of the road. Defendant is another man living in a house on the south side of the road. Police have no evidence the two even know each other, let alone that stolen property is being stored in…

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Dec. 14, 2023

A tale as old as time. Woman meets Man. Woman marries Man. They have a child. They divorce. Woman assumes full custody of the child. Man agrees to pay child support and buy a new car for Woman every three years until their child turns nineteen. Years later, Man is sued by the SEC for securities…

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Dec. 13, 2023

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in four criminal cases:

In Fischer v. United States, No. 23-5572, the Justices will decide if the D.C. Circuit erred in construing…

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Dec. 13, 2023

The Federal Rules of Evidence govern the admission or exclusion of evidence in most proceedings in the United States courts.

The Supreme Court submitted proposed Federal Rules of Evidence to Congress on February 5, 1973, but…

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Dec. 11, 2023

The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Richard E.N. Federico to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit based in Denver, adding a second public defender to the circuit court (article available…

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Dec. 7, 2023

The occasional mistrial in a fact-heavy criminal case is a job hazard prosecutors and defense attorneys have come to expect, but a lone juror's sudden sabotage of a guilty verdict last week was a first to many in the New Jersey federal courthouse (article available…

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Dec. 5, 2023

Loren AliKhan was confirmed as the first South Asian woman to serve on the federal trial court in the District of Columbia.

An associate judge on the DC Court of Appeals, AliKhan was confirmed on Tuesday.

AliKhan is the latest in a string of historic judicial “…

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Dec. 4, 2023

The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed U.S. Magistrate Irma Carrillo Ramirez as the first Latina judge to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, giving President Joe Biden his second appointee to the court (article available…

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Dec. 1, 2023

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the high court, died Friday at age 93 (article available…

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Nov. 29, 2023

Without hesitation, inmates at Wake County Detention Center ran to the aid of a detention officer last week when she fell to the floor (article available here(link is external)).

According to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, the female officer was supervising a dorm when she began feeling…

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