"[T]he Government argue[d] that when considering that the charged offenses occurred after the acquittal, the [appellant's] tactics were emboldened and this factor weighs in favor of admissibility."
"Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i) ... commands that the court must address the defendant personally to afford him the chance to speak or present evidence in mitigation."
Trump and his acolytes' conduct was indefensible, but the state's RICO law is overly broad and makes it too easy for prosecutors to bring charges.
Trump's Georgia indictment has much in common with the most recent federal case against him. But also breaks some new ground.
I was one of the critics he responded to, and in this post I offer a rejoinder.
A federal judge ruled in favor of an Idaho death-row inmate who says that the state is "psychologically torturing" him.
Giving presidents impunity for using force and fraud to try to nullify election results is far worse than any potential risk of prosecuting Trump.
Recent articles by Lawfare and Walter Olson perform a valuable service on this front.
His attempt to stay in power despite losing an election is well worthy of prosecution and punishment, on grounds of retribution and deterrence.
Maurice Jimmerson finally got a trial after a decade of pretrial detention. It ended in a hung jury.
Achieving this goal will require a lot more than banning racial preferences in college admissions. That includes some measures that will make the political right uncomfortable, as well as the left.
James Barber is set to be killed next month, the first execution after a string of botched lethal injection executions in the state.
The Supreme Court was wrong to deny relief to a man imprisoned for activity that Court's own rulings indicate was not illegal - one who never had an opportunity to challenge his incarceration on that basis.
The FAIR Act would be a significant step forward. It just passed the House Judiciary Committee on a unanimous 26-0 vote.
The real banana republic danger is if high officials can commit serious crimes with impunity.
Maurice Jimmerson has spent 10 years in jail awaiting trial for a 2013 murder charge.
The state's own attorney general has said Glossip deserves a new trial.
"Such inaction is not irrational but the result of strong incentives against citizen cooperation and against active police intervention."
One might have hoped this question would never have come up .... [UPDATE: Commenter QuantumBoxCat adds, "Worst threesome ever."]
Two damning investigations and a request from the state attorney general haven't been enough to stop the execution.
In 2013, Maurice Jimmerson was charged with murder. Ten years later, he's still languishing in a Dougherty County jail, awaiting trial.
The Department of Justice emulates the Kremlin in smearing government critics as foreign agents.
"While I respect the Court of Criminal Appeals' opinion, I am not willing to allow an execution to proceed despite so many doubts," said Oklahoma's attorney general.
Recent efforts from the governor, the attorney general, and state legislators suggest the state is moving away from capital punishment.
Trump very much deserves to be prosecuted and punished. But the New York case is far more dubious than the other charges likely to be brought against him.
"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.
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.
based on their not securing the gun they gave him and other things, given the evidence they had of his mental state.
Nero the police dog put his paws on the side of the car, which qualifies as a trespass, and thereby also a "search" under the Fourth Amendment.
"The firing squad, in my opinion, is beneath the dignity of the state of Idaho," said one state senator. "We have to find a better way."
The charge is the crime of illegal kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian children.
Plus: States move to stop cops from lying to kids, Biden wants to raise Medicare taxes, and more...
Bradley Bass' case in Colorado says a lot about just how powerful prosecutors are.
"No one buys this sham of a review," wrote one critic. "And the reason we don't buy it is because we all have functioning brains."
The mentally ill defendant "testified and described how shooting white people was part of his divine, preordained mission to establish 'a kingdom of infinite peace and progress.'”
For the second time, Justice Jackson dissents from the Supreme Court's refusal to hear a case.
The article explains how the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act and other crime victim protections contain a broad definition of the term "victim."
"This is a fundamental statement of morality, of what's right and wrong," Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday. "And I believe Pennsylvania must be on the right side of this issue."
Now a judge has cleared him of wrongdoing and struck down the rule used to justify the arrest.
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