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A federal judge chided the Department of Justice (DOJ) during a Wednesday hearing where he agreed to dismiss a trespassing charge against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) that stemmed from his visit to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility earlier this month.…

It can be a race to the courthouse and more to prevent an alien detainee from being removed from the United States.  Yesterday, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland issued a standing order prohibiting the removal of alien detainees from the continental United States…

The Drug Enforcement Administration has quietly ended its body camera program barely four years after it began, according to an internal email. See ProPublica article.

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has appointed Tracy Hucke as the inaugural Federal Public Defender for the newly created District of Wyoming Federal Public Defender’s Office. 

Ms. Hucke has served as the Wyoming Branch Chief since April 2021 under the…

After a jury awards $45 mil to man wrongfully imprisoned for 21 years, a federal judge finds that Miami Twp., Ohio is on the hook to indemnify detective Matthew Scott Moore who bungled the investigation.…

New Orleans judge Paul Bonin tells pretrial criminal defendants to pay up to $300/month to a private, for-profit ankle-monitoring company or stay in jail. Judge does not tell defendants that the company is owned by his former law partner, who regularly donated to the judge's judicial campaigns (…

When Rodney Reed first tried to challenge the constitutionality of Texas's postconviction DNA-testing procedures, the Fifth Circuit held his claim time-barred. Supreme Court(2023…

A man freely chats with cops about his involvement in a riverside gunfight, admitting that he fired shots during the attack. Two years later, at trial, he claims that his participation was under duress; the prosecutor reminds the jury that this defense is a "brand-new story" told for the first…

A Schrödinger’s motion that has vexed habeas practitioners: How long must a motion for an injunction gather dust on a district judge's desk before it is "constructively denied," allowing the movant to appeal (here, Amazon seeking relief from some NLRB rulings)?…

Buffalo, N.Y. detective Mark Stambach feeds nonpublic information about a 2004 double murder to a schizophrenic man, who then "confesses" and spends over 10 years in prison before being exonerated. There was no other evidence corroborating Ortiz’s involvement. (And oh, other culprits…