Today, the indictment, brought by a Special Counsel, laid out 37 federal charges against former president Donald Trump, including obstruction and unlawful retention of defense information for storing dozens of classified documents at his Florida resort and refusing to return them to the FBI and the National Archives, has been dismissed (access full article).
The Department of Justice’s Inspector General released “A Report of Investigation” into former Attorney General, William Barr, and the DOJ’s release of public statements concerning election fraud. The Inspector General’s office released its report on Thursday, July 25, 2024. In the report, the Inspector General indicates that Barr was involved in the decision to release information obtained from a pending investigation into voter fraud. The IG also found that Barr briefed former President Trump and issued a press-release through U.S.
Turn Key Health Clinics is a medical care provided utilized by local jails and detention facilities in counties across the country, including Tulsa, Cleveland, and Oklahoma. To date, at least 50 people in Turn Key’s care have died. Turn Key’s policies and practices have also endangered many others detailed in local jails.
A California federal judge who ordered a teenager handcuffed at her father’s sentencing hearing was properly reprimanded, a judiciary conduct committee said Tuesday.
Henry Martin thought he might spend a few years as federal public defender, then return to private practice as a slightly older and much wiser attorney. That was almost 40 years ago. Today, he’s the longest serving federal defender in the entire country. (access article and interview of Henry Martin).
AH Datalytics has launched a “Real-Time” crime index, (RTCI), online. (access index). AH Datalytics launched the real-time crime index in an effort to “aid in the need for a faster understanding and visualization of national, state, and local crime trends.” AH Datalytics acknowledges certain crime data is under-reported to police and agencies can fail to provide complete or accurate information.
Twenty years after being convicted of (vehemently denied) cocaine possession, Erma Wilson learned that the Midland County, Tex. prosecutor (Weldon "Ralph" Petty) on her case was also moonlighting as a law clerk for the presiding judge, a flagrant violation of the constitutional right to a fair trial. Yikes! Though she never served any jail time on the eight-year suspended sentence, the conviction meant she's been unable to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a nurse. Can she sue for money damages?
On Monday August 19, 2024, the Defender Services Office, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the Criminal Justice Act in Washington D.C. A video recording of the live event can be found here.
The commemoration included welcome and introductory remarks from Elizabeth Brown Luck, Chief, Defender Services Office, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Judge Robert J. Conrad, Director, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, provided opening remarks for the celebration.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on five charges, including bribery, fraud and taking foreign donations (access full article). The mayor insists he is innocent.
Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American to take the oath of office as a Supreme Court Justice on October 2, 1967.
President Johnson observed, “Thurgood Marshall symbolizes what is best about our American society: the belief that human rights must be satisfied through the orderly processes of law. … it is a cause of profound satisfaction to me that in [then-] Judge Marshall we shall have an advocate whose lifelong concern has been the pursuit of justice for his fellow man.”