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Nearly 10 years after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev detonated two bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the First Circuit heard another round of arguments Tuesday about whether he should be put to death.

Months after the Supreme Court…

A heated debate played out at the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday over a Maryland defense attorney's bid to overturn his money laundering conviction connected to a drug-dealing client, with the chief judge accusing a federal prosecutor of potentially treading on the Sixth Amendment right to counsel…

Nevada man's trial in March 2021 began with one of the jurors participating via Zoom for the first two days because of a possible Covid-19 infection. Man is convicted and appeals,  asserting that the remote participation was akin to depriving him of his constitutional rights to a fair and…

Arkansas man on parole absconds and law enforcement get a tip he's staying at a friend's place and dealing drugs. They arrest him leaving the house and then search the house without a warrant. Plenty of contraband found. Yikes! Man: this violates my rights because no probable cause to believe I…

Pennsylvania man convicted of making false statements to obtain food stamps challenged a federal law that prevented him from buying a hunting rifle, saying it violated his Second Amendment rights. Third Circuit panel: Based on…

Joseph "Tiger King" Maldonado-Passage was sentenced to 22 years in prison for hiring two hitmen to take out his foe, an animal-rights activist. (Neither was successful; one went to the beach instead, and one was an undercover FBI agent.)…

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who became the first Black woman to join the Supreme Court last year, will publish a memoir entitled Lovely One (access full article).

In the memoir, the…

Missouri carried out the first execution of an openly transgender woman in the history of the United States on Tuesday (access full article).

McLaughlin…

Mexico’s Supreme Court made history Monday when it voted a woman to head the tribunal for the first time (access full article).  

The chief justice is called the…

On New Year’s Eve, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts released his annual report on the state of the federal judiciary for 2022.

In the report, which is released every year as the Supreme…