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Today, the Supreme Court by a 5 to 4 vote held that District Courts may apply more lenient law at First Step Act re-sentencings. Hewitt v. United States, No. 23-1002 (June 26, 2025) (opinion). Former Assistant…

Vietnam will end capital punishment for eight categories of serious crime – including embezzlement, attempts to overthrow the government and sabotaging state infrastructure, state-run…

This morning, the Supreme Court held 6 to 3 that death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez has standing to bring his § 1983 claim challenging Texas’s post-conviction DNA testing procedures under the Due Process Clause. Gutierrez v…

This morning, by vote of 7 to 2, the Supreme Court held that a district court considering whether to revoke a defendant’s term of supervised release may not consider §3553(a)(2)(A), which covers retribution vis-à-vis the defendant’s underlying criminal offense.…

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has issued a press release about an internal memorandum to all wardens in the BOP stating, “To be clear, FSA [First Step Act] and SCA [Second Chance Act…

Authorities in Minnesota said Monday that the man arrested in a Saturday attack that killed one state lawmaker and left another wounded had a "hit list" of 45 elected officials — all Democrats.…

Due to low compensation rates causing bar advocates to decline court-appointed cases, Massachusetts is facing a surge of…

Since AEDPA was passed in 1996, it’s become harder and harder for habeas petitioners to win even the most glaring of constitutional violations. See Stephen R. Reinhardt, The Demise of Habeas Corpus and the Rise of Qualified Immunity: The Court's Ever Increasing Limitations on the…

Today, commonsense won the argument in Parrish v. United States, No. 24-275 (June 12, 2025), holding that a civil litigant who files a notice of appeal after the original appeal deadline but…

Brad Bondi, the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, has lost his bid to lead Washington's attorney bar association after an unusually closely-watched election that drew record turnout from the U.S. capital's 120,000 lawyers.…