David Sosa Says Mistakenly Arresting Him Twice Based on His Name Violated His Rights. Other David Sosas Agree.
The 11th Circuit rejected Sosa's constitutional claims, and he is asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
The 11th Circuit rejected Sosa's constitutional claims, and he is asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
Brooke Jenkins took office one year ago this week promising more prosecution for drug and property crime offenders. Crime and overdoses still went up.
Civil forfeiture is a highly unaccountable practice. The justices have the opportunity to make it a bit less so.
Adam Martinez was banned from school property after he criticized the district's decision to hire an officer deemed "ineligible for rehire" by the local sheriff's office.
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For five decades, the agency has destroyed countless lives while targeting Americans for personal choices and peaceful transactions.
Lai's media company covered the Communist government's abuses when other Hong Kong media wouldn't.
Donald Trump commuted Philip Esformes' sentence, but the Justice Department is bent on sending him back to prison.
"Nobody is abducting 1- and 4-year-old kids into sex trafficking," says the director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center.
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At a recent congressional hearing, Republicans and Democrats sparred over clemency. But they share more common ground than they'd like to admit.
But poor record keeping hides the real number.
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The lawsuit claims the ban has no "legitimate penological justification"
His bloody rhetoric undermines his defense of the sentencing reforms he proudly embraced as president.
James Barber is set to be killed next month, the first execution after a string of botched lethal injection executions in the state.
Agents claimed to see a gun that wasn't there. Video reveals nervous officers with a hunting mentality.
The National Association of Medical Examiners now says "excited delirium" should not be cited as a cause of death.
A Republican-sponsored resolution would authorize the president to "use all necessary and appropriate force" against foreigners involved in fentanyl trafficking.
The city says the man's injuries were "caused solely as a result of his own acts or omissions."
Massachusetts reformed its notoriously bad public records laws in 2020, but reporters are still fighting to get the police misconduct files they're legally entitled to.
If it's not a sweetheart deal, everyone else deserves the same leniency.
The ruling is likely the first by a state supreme court to undercut the popular forensic technique.
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We once ranked No. 4 in the world, according to the Heritage Foundation. Now we're 25th.
The guilty verdict came the same day the Justice Department blasted Minneapolis for harassing the press.
By taking records that did not belong to him and refusing to return them, William Barr says, Trump "provoked this whole problem himself."
The government appears to agree that Charles Foehner shot a man in self-defense. He may spend decades behind bars anyway.
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The constitutional lawyer and criminal justice reformer talks about our two-tier punishment system and deep-seated corruption at the Justice Department.
Minneapolis police used gratuitous force, discriminated against black and Native American residents, and retaliated against people exercising their First Amendment rights.
Snooping through emails, video, and photos isn’t the same as stumbling on containers full of cocaine.
Her arrest may have been retaliation for her involvement in a lawsuit against the local police department.
The FAIR Act would be a significant step forward. It just passed the House Judiciary Committee on a unanimous 26-0 vote.
Only two clemency applications from death row inmates in Louisiana have been granted in the past 50 years.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence warned that the practice threatens civil liberties, risks "mission creep," and could increase intelligence agencies' power.
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The FAIR Act includes several substantial reforms that would make it harder to take property from innocent owners through civil forfeiture.
There's no deep mystery behind why Trump kept boxes of classified documents. He wanted them.