The state's highest court affirmed Joseph A. Meyers's murder and arson convictions, rejecting his argument that a mangled trial transcript made a reconstruction hearing inadequate to protect his right to appeal.
A federal judge in Boston has ordered Joe Scott Jr., a former union treasurer convicted of embezzling funds from a Gardner-based chapter of the Communications Workers of America, to forfeit $49,500 to the government, reversing her own denial of the forfeitu...
The state's highest court affirmed Joseph A. Meyers's murder and arson convictions, rejecting his argument that a mangled trial transcript made a reconstruction hearing inadequate to protect his right to appeal.
The Georgia Supreme Court vacated a trial court’s dismissal of a defendant’s motion for leave to file an out-of-time appeal, ruling that a 2025 statute restored the right for those whose prior motions were dismissed under Cook v. State.
The 8th Circuit vacated a district court’s permanent injunction requiring appointed counsel at Arkansas bail hearings, holding that the named plaintiffs lacked Article III standing because their requested prospective relief could not redress their past conf...
A federal judge in Arizona granted the government's motion to intervene and stay civil proceedings involving Ignite International Limited, ruling that the government's interest in protecting parallel criminal proceedings outweighs the plaintiff's interest i...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed a court of appeals decision that refused to address the State’s consensual-encounter argument because the State failed to also challenge the trial court’s community-caretaking ruling, clarifying that independent...
The Sixth Circuit ruled that a Detroit detective’s federal civil rights lawsuit for withholding exculpatory evidence was not barred by the Heck doctrine, because a state court’s vacatur of the plaintiff’s murder conviction was valid even if its procedural b...
A federal judge in Illinois denied summary judgment to an Alton Police Department sergeant who jumped into the air and drove his knee into a subdued, handcuffed suspect, ruling that a reasonable jury could find the force was not objectively reasonable and t...
The Ninth Circuit reversed a federal district court’s grant of habeas relief that had vacated Mark Alan Bradford’s 1988 murder conviction and death sentence, holding that the California Supreme Court’s rejection of his claims was not objectively unreasonable.
A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida convicted Brett Blackman of orchestrating a massive telemarketing scheme that defrauded Medicare and other federal health care programs of more than $1 billion through bogus telemedicine orders and foreign...
A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty to damaging religious property by repeatedly crashing his vehicle into the entrance of the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters, a globally significant Jewish religious institution.
Daniel Harawa argues the federal government’s request to ban race from Fourth Amendment seizure analysis contradicts its own prior positions and Supreme Court precedent.
A federal judge in San Diego allowed key civil rights claims to proceed against a police sergeant and the city, ruling that the plaintiff adequately alleged excessive force, retaliation, and evidence fabrication.
A change in state supreme court precedent requiring proof of intent to kill "without lawful justification" has forced the reversal of a Cook County man’s conviction for shooting a teenage girl during a street fight.
A federal judge in Oregon denied summary judgment to two Springfield police officers, ruling that genuine disputes of material fact exist regarding whether handcuffing a suspect during a Terry stop for the purpose of identification violated the Fourth Amend...
A Ninth Circuit panel reversed Andres Sanchez’s tax fraud conviction and ordered a new trial, holding that the district court applied the wrong legal standard when it allowed an 11-member jury to return a verdict after a racially biased juror was excused du...
The Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision to sentence Antonio Evans without applying an enhanced mandatory minimum, ruling that the government could not prove prior incarceration facts for the enhancement without violating either the Sixth Ame...
New York Attorney General Letitia James released body-camera footage from the April 12 encounter that led to the death of Irene McIntyre, who was struck by a trooper after her vehicle struck other people in Onondaga County.
The 10th Circuit held that federal courts may order the temporary hospitalization of an incompetent, unrestorable defendant for a dangerousness evaluation under 18 U.S.C. § 4246, even after competency restoration efforts have ended. However, the court rever...
U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods denied all Daubert motions in the government’s securities and commodities fraud case against former Western Asset Management trader S. Kenneth Leech II, ruling that sophisticated statistical analyses of his Treasury futu...