Prosecutors

Top DC prosecutor announces new election fraud unit, though authority and scope are unclear

The top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., is leading a new initiative to investigate election fraud cases.

Mar 18, 2025 2:12 PM CDT

Trump visits Justice Department for speech that breaks all norms

President Donald Trump delivered an unusual, campaign-style speech at Justice Department headquarters Friday, heavy with grievance and meandering from such topics as Al Capone to allegations of judicial corruption as he defied the distance that has traditionally existed between the White House and the federal law enforcement agency.

Mar 17, 2025 10:50 AM CDT

Top House Judiciary Democrat seeks probe of US attorney Ed Martin

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) is calling for the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., accusing controversial prosecutor Ed Martin of violating the law and repeatedly ignoring legal ethics as he seeks to root out people he perceives as undermining President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Mar 13, 2025 3:20 PM CDT

SCOTUSblog founder Goldstein had connection to cryptocurrency wallet hosting $100M in transfers, US alleges

Federal prosecutors cited alleged “ongoing criminal conduct” by indicted SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein in a court filing urging a federal judge to keep in place an order requiring monitoring of the former U.S. Supreme Court litigator’s electronic devices.

Mar 11, 2025 3:02 PM CDT

Lawyer convicted in fatal shooting of man who attacked him in law firm parking lot

A Connecticut lawyer was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter Friday for fatally shooting a man who attacked him in the parking lot of his law firm.

Mar 10, 2025 10:07 AM CDT

State’s failure to correct accuser’s lithium testimony entitles death row inmate to new trial, SCOTUS rules

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an Oklahoma death row inmate is entitled to a new trial because the prosecution failed to correct testimony by the man who implicated him.

Feb 25, 2025 2:28 PM CST

Allegations that murder defendant was ‘a drug ho’ who practiced witchcraft leads to tossed conviction

The New Mexico Supreme Court has overturned a woman’s 2022 murder conviction and barred a retrial because of “severe and pervasive prosecutorial misconduct, exacerbated by a lackluster defense.”

Feb 25, 2025 9:15 AM CST

More prosecutors resign over order to drop Eric Adams corruption case

Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor in Mayor Eric Adams’s federal corruption case, has quit over the Justice Department’s demand that the case be dismissed, calling any lawyer who would move in court to toss the matter a “fool” or “coward,” according to a copy of a letter obtained Friday.

Feb 14, 2025 1:21 PM CST

Meet the acting US attorney who quit over Eric Adams case

Long before she made headlines by defying a Trump administration order to drop criminal charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, prosecutor Danielle Sassoon clerked for two very conservative judges. She cited those clerkships in her resignation letter Thursday to AG Pam Bondi, explaining that her fealty to the law would not allow her to seek dismissal of the Adams case.

Feb 14, 2025 12:45 PM CST

Senior DOJ officials resign after order to drop case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams

The top federal prosecutor in New York and a team of Justice Department officials in Washington resigned Thursday after a demand by the Trump administration to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

Feb 13, 2025 3:48 PM CST

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein wins pretrial release after denying moving millions in crypto

SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein has won his pretrial release a second time after offering proof to contravene prosecutors’ claims that he moved millions of dollars in cryptocurrency while facing tax fraud charges.

Feb 13, 2025 3:37 PM CST

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein accused of transferring millions in cryptocurrency after tax indictment

A federal magistrate judge has concluded that SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein violated his conditions of release on tax fraud charges by failing to disclose the existence of two cryptocurrency wallets through which he allegedly received and sent millions of dollars in the currency.

Feb 11, 2025 9:55 AM CST

Judge apologizes to slain jogger Ahmaud Arbery’s family after tossing charges against district attorney

A Georgia judge has tossed the charges against a prosecutor accused of favoring a former white investigator in her office before he was charged in the 2020 death of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery.

Feb 10, 2025 9:21 AM CST

Prosecutors need easier paths to remedy wrongful convictions, ABA House says

The ABA House of Delegates on Monday at the 2025 ABA Midyear Meeting in Phoenix passed a resolution to help prosecutors trying to vacate wrongful convictions who come up against procedural obstacles or court skepticism.

Feb 3, 2025 5:30 PM CST

Northern Star: John Choi is leading efforts to redefine justice in Minnesota

When John Choi became the city attorney for St. Paul, Minnesota, he didn’t have much experience with criminal law. “What I found was that a lot of times, the things that happened in these cases didn’t really produce an outcome that I think would have made the public proud,” Choi says.

Feb 1, 2025 1:00 AM CST