For possessing a gun while committing a crime—even when no one is killed—too many defendants are slammed with sentences decades or even centuries longer than justice demands.
Databases of involuntarily supplied identities make for a plug-and-play surveillance state.
The heavy-handed measure, a direct response to the protests provoked by the shooting of Breonna Taylor, looks like an attempt to deter constitutionally protected activity.
Like the felony murder charge, it carries a presumptive sentence more than eight years longer than the manslaughter charge.
A federal judge protests the Supreme Court’s “rights-without-remedies” Bivens doctrine.
The case drew national outrage from press freedom groups, who called the prosecution excessive and a threat to journalism.
The Supreme Court delivers another blow to a victim of egregious police abuse.
"I've lost everything," says Vicki Baker.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson denied qualified immunity to the officers involved in Patterson v. United States.
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Violent acts are already illegal, and new tools will inevitably be used against those who annoy the powerful.
In Massachusetts, Malinda Harris argues, civil asset forfeiture routinely violates the right to due process.
The Ending Qualified Immunity Act of 2021 would no longer let state actors violate your rights without consequence.
The court said criminalizing unknowing possession violates the right to due process.
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Angelo Quinto's family has filed a wrongful death claim.
Strategic politicking, police union influence, or both?
A phone in your pocket may as well be a GPS beacon strapped to your ankle.
A new documentary explores forced sterilizations in California's women's prisons.
The prisons are filled with aging inmates who no longer pose a public threat.
Civil forfeiture reform failed last year. But now more legislators are on board.
The justices did not address one of James King's key arguments, which the 6th Circuit will now consider.
The justice weighs in during oral arguments in Lange v. California.
