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A man whose death sentence for killing a Missouri couple during a robbery more than a quarter of a century ago was put to death Tuesday, becoming the fifth person executed in the United States this year (…

A Maryland federal judge has approved federal prosecutors' request to bar any discussion of cannabis legalization from the upcoming trial of a man indicted for criminal conspiracy to traffic marijuana from California to Maryland (…

After being struck in the head with a metal handlebar, called the n-word, and having his life threatened by four white men in Lewiston, Me., Black man retrieves a gun from his home nearby, returns to the scene, and fires a shot into a dirt pile. At trial, the prosecutor peremptorily struck the…

Although the United States Sentencing Commission lost a voting quorum shortly after enactment of the First Step Act in December 2018--and cannot amend the Guidelines without four commissioners--the Commission continues to do research and generate a wide range of reports.  This week the…

President Joe Biden on Wednesday moved to further diversify the federal bench in terms of demographics and job experience with five new judicial nominees, including two women with backgrounds as public defenders selected as appellate judges (…

Today, in the first use of his clemency power, President Biden granted clemency to 78 people, including three pardons and 75 communtations. The Statement by President Joe Biden on the Clemency and Second Chance Month begins with these words:

America is a nation of laws and second chances,…

Utah Highway Patrol officer pulls over a car with Kansas plates for speeding and changing lanes without properly signaling. After talking with the driver, trooper returns to his patrol car and calls for a local sheriff's K-9 unit. The K-9 eventually shows up and alerts on the car, and the…

What standard of review should federal habeas courts use when assessing state courts' prior determinations that constitutional trial errors were harmless?

A 6-to-3 divided Supreme Court answered that question yesterday in…

The U.S. Supreme Court struggled during oral arguments Wednesday over whether its landmark Miranda ruling allows criminal suspects to file civil suits against police officers who don't warn them of their rights against self-…

West Virginia used-car dealers file motion to suppress evidence obtained during search, and four years later a court agrees that the state trooper who applied for the warrant omitted important facts and made misleading statements and dismisses the criminal charges (failing to disclose to…