In a stinging rebuke to a federal judge who sentenced a well-known former Chicago lawyer and politician to probation in a corruption case, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…
During January oral arguments in Briscoe v. Virginia, Justice Antonin Scalia made clear he wasn’t happy with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant cert in the confrontation clause case.
The FBI illegally obtained more than 2,000 telephone call records by invoking terrorism emergencies that weren’t real or by persuading telecommunications companies to cooperate, a newspaper investigation has found.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a federal appeals court to reconsider the claims of a Georgia death row inmate who is challenging his rape and murder conviction based on…
The U.S. Supreme Court has directed a federal appeals court to reconsider the death penalty for former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a police officer in 1981.
The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the cocaine trafficking conviction of a defendant who claims his Sixth Amendment rights to a public trial were violated when the trial court excluded…
A federal appeals court has blasted an Illinois class action lawyer as “out of control” and ordered sanctions for bringing a groundless suit for fees against his former law firm…
In an unusual move intended to give the Arizona Supreme Court time to weigh in on the controversial bribery and obstruction prosecution of a state-court judge over his court rulings,…
Three memos issued this week by the Department of Justice, in response to criticism of federal prosecutors concerning the disclosure of exculpatory evidence in the high-profile prosecution of former Sen.…
After yesterday’s announcement of felony charges against the presiding criminal court judge in Maricopa County, some lawyers in Arizona are questioning the ethics of a county attorney involved in bringing…
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