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Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of President Biden's top prospects for the U.S. Supreme Court, has led a professional and personal life at once classic and unpredictable. Unlike most judges, her background is not as a prosecutor or major corporate lawyer, and her personal life also defies stereotypes…

Sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenges to a criminal conviction are notoriously difficult to win. California man and alleged gang member charged with drug conspiracy. Man: I left gang and bought drugs for my use. Contacts with gang is for friendship purpose. Jury: we believe defense and…

The Ninth Circuit invalidated the subsection of a law that makes it a crime to encourage unlawful immigration, ruling Thursday it is overbroad and covers speech that is protected by the First Amendment (…

A law allowing U.S. authorities to arrest and prosecute certain foreign nationals for drug crimes committed in international waters unconstitutionally extends U.S. jurisdiction beyond the limits of international law, the …

The Michigan Court of Appeals has once again vacated a sentence imposed by a Michigan judge known for giving higher sentences than what guidelines recommend and making controversial comments from the bench, citing his “blatant refusal” to follow precedent that bars judges from considering…

Two Democrats in the Virginia Senate joined with Republicans on Monday to defeat a measure 21-19 that would have eliminated hundreds of mandatory minimum sentences (view full article).

It would have…

A nationwide lockdown of federal prisons that went into effect early last week due to violence at a Texas facility is coming to an end (view full article).

The agency imposed a…

A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is facing fallout over his insistence that a lawyer remove his mask during in-person oral arguments (access full…

Eyewitness accounts are the backbone of evidence; we trust few things more than what appears before our very eyes. But how do you know if you're right and if what you're seeing is accurate? And what if you're wrong? (…

Inside one of the only federal women’s prisons in the United States, inmates say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up (…