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"Twenty-four years ago, [Virginia] decided that Appellant was a guilty man. From that moment, the Commonwealth has done everything in its power to ensure Appellant dies in prison, eschewing the Constitution, ethical strictures, and Appellant's own repeated and consistent assertions of factual…

Arapahoe County, Colo. social worker Robin Niceta (who's now in prison for lying in a…

As of the week of July 7, 2025, Criminal Justice Act (CJA) panel attorney funds have been depleted. Panel payments will be deferred until funds become available. Please continue to file, process, and approve CJA vouchers as normal during the payment deferrals so that payments can be disbursed as…

Shortly before the 2016 election, self-described Twitter "shitlord" tweets and retweets memes urging supporters of Hillary Clinton to vote by text message. More than four years later, he is criminally indicted for conspiring to injure citizens in the exercise of their right to vote. After four…

The Board of Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York announced the appointment of Clay Kaminsky as magistrate judge.…

Utah man pleads guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and agrees to criminally forfeit a lot of land. Uh oh! It's not his land, but rather is owned by a friend and former employee—though it was partially paid off with tainted money from the criminal enterprise.…

Prosecutorial immunity is notoriously hard to overcome—so we're ecstatic to report that a Michigan appeals court ruled that…

Oklahoma City police detain driver whose passenger is wanted for failing to appear in court. The passenger is arrested—but then officers hang around for another ten minutes, until a drug-sniffing dog finally shows up, takes a lap around the car, and alerts. Driver: Sniff happens but this delay…

Cameras capture two men and a woman arriving via Jeep at an Artesia, N.M. motel, leaving two hours later with the woman sobbing, and the men returning three hours later without her.…

As part of the Training Division's continued efforts to spotlight and challenge the systemic and legal issues in pretrial detention, we report the latest from pretrial detainees in Prince George’s County, Md.: The judges here followed bail policies that arbitrarily denied us a shot at release.…