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Bye Bye midnight filing deadlines in the Third Circuit. The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has adopted amendments ot its Local Appellate Rules to create a "uniform 5:00 p.m. E.T. deadline for filings (electronic and otherwise) and will become effective on July 1,"  See…

A former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd has been convicted of aiding and abetting manslaughter (view full…

May is Mental Health Awareness Month.

2023 Mental Health Awareness Month resources can be found at Mental Health Awareness Month.

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In state court news, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has elected to use its "extraordinary superintendence powers" and hold that about 27,000 defendants who pleaded guilty to DUI from 2011 to 2019 are entitled to a conclusive presumption of "egregious government misconduct" and to the…

It's generally a crime to possess a machinegun. If you affix a "bump stock" to a semiautomatic rifle, it functions essentially like a machinegun. So, do you now have a "machinegun"? ATF: yes. District court: yes. Sixth Circuit (en banc) (2021): We are evenly split and cannot decide. What do you…

The Alabama Constitution of 1901 was enacted with the specific purpose of establishing white supremacy. To accomplish this goal, the 1901 constitution, among other things, contained a provision disenfranchising anyone convicted of a crime of moral turpitude. After the Supreme Court held that…

If you're a criminal defense lawyer and your drug-smuggling client "sent around $90,000 to an attorney in Jamaica, who then wired it to a realtor in New York City, who then sent it to a Ugandan diplomat . . . , who wired the money" to you to send to the mother of his child, you just might be…

Indiana’s Sex Offender Registration Act’s provision requires those who are registered out of the state to also register in-state. People affected: this law violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on ex post facto laws, our right to travel under its privileges and immunities clause, and…

Earlier this week, the United States Sentencing Commission released its 2022 Federal Sentencing Statistics. The data covers sentencings from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. These…

Twenty-year-old Ohio man runs an online chat roomwhere he urges others to help him create a militia group and revolt against tyranny. The group is infiltrated by FBI informants, and the man is eventually arrested and convicted of attempted kidnapping based on a scheme to lure a police officer to…