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The American Psychological Association is calling for the removal of mental health history questions for those seeking to become licensed attorneys, arguing that prospective lawyers shouldn't be required to reveal whether they've ever been treated for or diagnosed with a mental illness (…

The House of Delegates approved a measure adopting a new iteration of the ABA Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System at the ABA Annual Meeting in Denver on Monday (access for article).

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Allegation: For seven years, ICE officer repeatedly rapes undocumented Honduran immigrant under threat of deportation. When he eventually leaves his job with ICE, he tells her that "[i]f you go and ruin my life, I'll kill you." Four years later, after revealing the abuse to a different ICE…

Group of folks were smoking pot outside a Washington, D.C. apartment building. Officer stops and sees one guy back away and raise his hands. Cop: "Just making sure there's no guns, that's it." Show me your waistband. Guy: "No. I'm cool" and shows waistband. Cop: Noticing some bulges, says "lift…

Porcha Woodruff was getting her two daughters ready for school when six police officers showed up at her door in Detroit. They asked her to step outside because she was under arrest for robbery and carjacking (…

Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for felons convicted of some crimes serves no legitimate penological purpose and violates their rights under the Eighth Amendment, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday (…

A black man charged in a drug case appears before a white Detroit federal judge. Judge, frustrated with the many delays in the case, declared: “This guy looks like a criminal to me.” Black man: not cool. White judge two years later: I was mad at the time, “I regret it,” and "just because I got…

Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a Harvard law professor who helped reframe debates around criminal justice, school desegregation and reparations during the 1990s and 2000s, all the while mentoring a new generation of Black lawyers that included President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, died at age 70…

Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on four counts related to the efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election (…

Federal judicial officials are warning that pending spending legislation in Congress would force the judiciary to cut hundreds of jobs for public defenders and probation officers and cut back on cybersecurity improvements (…