The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two consolidated cases by Alabama women whose cars were both seized for more than a year before courts found they were innocent owners.
Recent efforts from the governor, the attorney general, and state legislators suggest the state is moving away from capital punishment.
It's been nearly three years since New York repealed its police secrecy law, and departments are still fighting to hide misconduct records.
"They had a duty to protect her," says Ta'Neasha Chappell's sister. "She was not attended to because she was a Black woman and they didn't feel like she was worth getting any attention."
'Digidog is out of the pound," New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared, not ominously.
Robert Delgado's family is now seeking damages.
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The case against the former president is both morally dubious and legally shaky.
After a century of Democratic mismanagement, Chicago is hemorrhaging population, catastrophically underfunding massive pension promises, and taxing the bejeebus out of its crime-scarred residents.
Have we forgotten the era of mass institutionalization?
Headlines about the 34 alleged felonies seem to have obscured newly revealed information about the weakness of the charges.
"It is critical that Oklahomans have absolute faith that the death penalty is administered fairly and with certainty," said the state's attorney general in a Thursday press release.
As former Backpage execs await their August trial, the shutdown is still worsening the lives it was supposed to improve.
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"KCPD has continuously and repeatedly advised Plaintiff and his fellow officers that if they did not fulfill a 'ticket quota' then they would be kicked out of the unit," the complaint states.
Philip Esformes' case is a story about what happens when the government violates some of its most basic promises.
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"I didn't know if this would ever end," says Melissa Henderson. "I'm very relieved. A heaviness has lifted."
The continuing ambiguity reflects the legal challenges that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg faces in transforming one hush payment into 34 felonies.
Lakeith Smith's case epitomizes the issues with the "felony murder" doctrine.
Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump has put the once-obscure position of district attorney into the national spotlight.
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The New York charges look weak, and Americans think they’re politically motivated.
Prosecutors are counting each record misrepresenting the former president's reimbursement of that payment as a separate crime.
"Even after his 2021 exoneration, Baltimore County prosecutors have opposed Clarence receiving compensation for the injustice of being wrongfully convicted," says an attorney representing the man.
Trump is charged with 34 criminal counts connected to the payment of $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 as part of a nondisclosure agreement.
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"We are here because one preschooler pulled down another preschooler's pants," says defense attorney Jason Flores-Williams.
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A 9-year-old backed out of a deal to sell her pet goat for slaughter. Local officials and sheriff's deputies used the power of the state to force her to go through with it.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is relying on debatable facts and untested legal theories to transform minor misconduct into a felony.
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Trump touted his support for sentencing reform as evidence of his "deep compassion," which DeSantis sees as a weakness.
"Defendant Huber intentionally fired his service weapon at Decedent and killed him with gunfire while Decedent posed no threat of death or serious bodily harm to Defendant Huber," the lawsuit states.
The 5th Circuit noted that such orders can be issued without any credible evidence of a threat to others.
The Appellate Court of Maryland rules that the rights of the victim's family must be respected in any process that could vacate Mr. Syed's conviction—an important precedent that crime victims' rights are enforceable.
As the government sets its sights on migrants crossing the border, native-born Americans have also come under its watchful eye.
The ADL's annual audit of "antisemitic incidents," which counted a record number last year, is apt to be influenced by changes in methodology and reporting behavior.
Police detectives accused Jerry Johnson of being a drug trafficker and seized cash he says he intended to use to buy a semitruck at auction. He was never charged with a crime.
One officer was fired and another was placed on restricted duty this week, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions.
Our mobile devices constantly snitch on our whereabouts.
Seven sheriff's deputies say the rapper subjected them to "embarrassment, ridicule, emotional distress, humiliation, and loss of reputation" after a drug bust on his house came up empty.
James King is once again asking the high court to rule that two officers should not receive immunity for choking him unconscious and temporarily disfiguring his face.
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