That's the powerful argument that Mayor Adams's lawyers are making, citing (among other grounds) the leaking of a resignation letter containing "the wildly inflammatory and false accusation that Mayor Adams and his counsel had, in essence, offered a quid to the Department of Justice in exchange for the quo of dismissal."
The cops tried to cover up their mistake after they "terrorized" the family, according to a lawsuit.
This isn't the first time Detroit cops have arrested the wrong person after using facial recognition software.
Transporting "an unborn child" from Montana to another state "with the intent to obtain an abortion that is illegal" in Montana, or assisting anyone in doing so, would be illegal under House Bill 609.
The ATF, charged with regulating firearms, has a history of abuse and incompetence.
Justice Thomas observes in his dissent that "the parties collusively excluded" evidence—which I presented to the Court for the victim's family—"in order to reach a predetermined outcome." And the Court majority offers no defense of this deceitful maneuver.
Whether or not a reasonable police officer violates clearly established law when he declines to check the features and address of his target house before raiding it is thus still up for debate.
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin puts loyalty to Donald Trump ahead of loyalty to the Constitution.
Combine moral zealotry with increasingly blurred lines between political speech and violence long enough, and the outcome is predictable.
"Founding-era common law gave officers no authority to make an 'arrest without a warrant, for a mere misdemeanor not committed in [their] presence.'"
The newly confirmed head of the country's leading law enforcement agency has a history of advocating politically motivated investigations even while condemning them.
"It's shameful that government officials would use the criminal legal process to censor art and expression."
Efforts to expand and amplify victims' voices in criminal proceedings are justified and likely to continue into the future.
The modern crime victims' rights movement has been remarkably successful in inserting the victim's voice into criminal justice processes.
New Mexico State Police Sgt. Toby LaFave, "the face of DWI enforcement," has been implicated in a corruption scandal that goes back decades and involves "many officers."
Under existing Second Circuit caselaw, the district court will almost certainly need to approve the motion to dismiss. But existing Circuit law fails to take into account the Crime Victims Rights Act. And there may be a "victim" who rights are being ignored: New York City.
Snakes. Magic. Orgasmic meditation. And a dubious federal case against the leaders of a supposed sex cult.
Law enforcement acts better when officers know the public is watching.
The victims' rights movement is rooted in America's long tradition of private prosecution, in which crime victims were able to initiate and pursue their own criminal prosecutions.
Taxpayers will continue to be hurt twice by misconduct until individual police officers are held accountable.
Civil forfeiture allows the government of Hawaii to take your property and sell it for profit without proving you did anything wrong.
A driver who was acquitted of drunk driving joins a class action lawsuit provoked by a bribery scheme that went undetected for decades.
Massachusetts outlawed flavored tobacco. Now, just as criminal justice groups warned, a vape shop owner is serving time.
In the latest guilty plea, a local defense attorney says he had been bribing cops to make DWI cases disappear "since at least the late 1990s."
The bill would also create mandatory minimum jail sentences for fleeing the police.
For all the money spent on it, the gunshot detection system has a spotty record at best.
Fogel's story closely mirrored that of Brittney Griner's. But he did not receive the same urgency from the Biden administration, even though he was arrested six months prior.
For a decade and a half, officers made DWI cases go away in exchange for bribes, relying on protection from senior officers implicated in the same racket.
The agency's low points, from working with child sex abusers to enabling drug trafficking
"I know they are guilty," otherwise "they would not be in front of me," said town justice Richard Snyder, who resigned in December.
A(nother) look at how human trafficking panic gets made.
A defanged FBI could minimize our reliance on politicians’ (rarely) good intentions.
Video of the incident shows Micah Washington screaming as a Reform, Alabama, police officer deploys a Taser directly into his back.
Yet its penitentiary centers are already running at over 300 percent capacity.
At his confirmation hearing, the president's pick to run the nation's leading law enforcement agency ran away from his record as a MAGA zealot.
Plus: Air traffic control failures that led to a plane crash, "why shit not working" in New York City, and more...
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