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So get this. Two men on a boat believes it has stumbled on an illegal long-line fishing buoy. It pulls up the lines, cuts free several sharks, and even tells Florida Fish & Wildlife what they'd done. Whoops. Turns out the line was lawfully placed by marine researchers with proper permits. So…

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.

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Pennsylvania death-row prisoner with a history of mental illness is held in solitary confinement for 26 years. He sues a prison official, who does not dispute whether that violates the Eighth Amendment, arguing only that he is entitled to qualified immunity.…

Statement Regarding The Execution of Khalifah ibn Rayford Daniels Also Known As Marcellus Williams

Khaliifah was extraordinary. Never have we met someone like him, and never will we again.

We learn a little bit about ourselves with each person we represent. We…

Marcellus Williams, 55, who spent more than two decades on Missouri’s death row convicted of a 1998 murder that he said he did not commit, was killed by lethal injection Tuesday evening after a lengthy and complex effort to exonerate him based on DNA testing issues (…

Leslie E. Scott has been selected to serve as the National Sentencing Resource Counsel’s new Director. Scott joined SRC in 2022. Prior to joining SRC, Scott worked in academia as an associate professor at the University of Detroit, Mercy School of Law. Scott also served our community as an…

Today, the FBI issued a press release of 2023 Crime in the Nation Statistics based on criminal offenses reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting Program by participating law enforcement agencies…

Ecuadoran national challenges his conviction for illegal reentry into the United States on the grounds that his initial removal was unlawful and the prohibition on reentry was enacted for super racist reasons. Second Circuit: His initial removal was lawful. And though the law's legislative…

President Joe Biden secured the record for the highest number of openly LGBTQ judges appointed to the bench by any president when the U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted in favor of a military vet who spent years working as a prosecutor becoming a life-tenured judge in Philadelphia (…

Today, the United States Sentencing Commission published Cyber Technology in Federal Crime (Sept. 18, 2024), which provides "demographic and sentencing…