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U.S. Circuit Judge Albert Diaz has been named the next chief judge of the Fourth Circuit and is the first Hispanic jurist to helm the federal appellate court, replacing outgoing Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory (article available…

For two years, a New Jersey judge used a pseudonym to post roughly 40 publicly available videos on TikTok videos of himself lip-syncing lyrics from popular rap songs; Eleven were deemed inappropriate by the judicial conduct committee. (article available…

It is obviously unreasonable for an off-duty, out-of-uniform police officer to lose his temper on the road, follow another motorist home, box him in his driveway, scream profanities, all before identifying himself as law enforcement, and point a gun at the nonthreatening motorist. At least so…

In en banc news, the Ninth Circuit will not reconsider its decision that the Cruel and Unusual…

Allegation: After Montgomery County, Ky. officials are ordered to obtain exculpatory evidence from a witness and turn it over to the defense, a prosecutor instead tells the witness to destroy the evidence. (She does.) Man, age 56, spent two years in jail facing a potential death sentence for a…

Oregon law makes it a crime to surreptitiously record conversations with another person without their knowledge . . . unless you're a cop performing official duties, in which case, record away! Project Veritas—which has something of a history of secretly recording conversations—challenges the…

Seventeen-year-old student is required to participate in police ride-along for a class, and Hammond, Ind. officer Jamie Garcia she shadows spends the day groping her, making lewd remarks, and even taking her to a remote location where he offers her to another officer for sex. Officer: This mere…

John Huffington was pardoned in January for a 1981 double murder he didn’t commit (article available…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday decided - for now - not to weigh in on the legality of judges increasing prison sentences for criminal defendants based on charges for which they were acquitted - a practice that critics have said violates basic constitutional rights (article available…

In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the 1997 conviction of Jimcy McGirt for sexual abuse on the grounds that, as an enrolled member of the Seminole…