"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.
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.
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"These things are just so inexcusable," a judge said. "It's hard to understand."
It's been nearly three years since New York repealed its police secrecy law, and departments are still fighting to hide misconduct records.
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The case against the former president is both morally dubious and legally shaky.
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Headlines about the 34 alleged felonies seem to have obscured newly revealed information about the weakness of the charges.
The divergent orders from judges in Washington state and Texas may bring the battle over mifepristone to the Supreme Court.
"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.
Philip Esformes' case is a story about what happens when the government violates some of its most basic promises.
A Colorado man was convicted under an anti-stalking law for sending hostile messages online.
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.
Abortion and gerrymandering are likely to be on the court's docket in the near future, and Janet Protasiewicz ran unabashedly to the left on both issues. Is this the best way to decide contentious topics?
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Prosecutors are counting each record misrepresenting the former president's reimbursement of that payment as a separate crime.
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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The 5th Circuit noted that such orders can be issued without any credible evidence of a threat to others.
The CFPB funding scheme is constitutional, the 2nd Circuit says.
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.
The surprising recent rise in partisan, racial, and gender differences in circuit judges following earlier opinions.
The 11th Circuit panel refused to lift an injunction against the law.
The third parties think the new ballot restrictions meet no legitimate state interest besides guaranteeing Democrat and Republican hold on government.
Lawyers representing an allegedly duped Buffalo Wild Wings customer demand that the company disgorge its ill-gotten gains.
Opponents of the reforms favored by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition should acknowledge the threat posed by unconstrained majority rule.
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A new report details how plea bargaining can hurt defendants and warps the justice system.
Criticism of public officials doesn't have to be polite, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court confirmed.
The trade association says the overbroad and vague A.B. 2273 places unconstitutional burdens on speech.
Michael Friend was arrested in 2018 for holding a sign that read "Cops Ahead" near a police checkpoint. That arrest violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Bradley Bass' case in Colorado says a lot about just how powerful prosecutors are.
It's a threat to our fundamental rights, but courts refuse to change their approach.
Section 230 helped the internet flourish. Now its scope is under scrutiny.
"Today's decision is a victory for the First Amendment that should be celebrated by everyone who hopes to see the internet continue as a place where even difficult and contentious issues can be debated and discussed freely," said one attorney.
Election betting markets are often more reliable than pundits. Did the site steal user funds? No. Did they lie to people? No. Harm anyone? No.
Because legislators omitted a crucial letter, there is no straightforward way to downgrade convictions for offenses that are no longer felonies.
We may have finally discovered a limit to judicial immunity.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission might make medical neglect a qualifying condition for compassionate release.
"In short, the controlling motivations for the suspension were the interest in bringing down a reform prosecutor," the judge wrote.
Justice Thomas' footprints are all over the Court's recently concluded term.
Justice Richard Bernstein said Pete Martel's hiring as clerk was unacceptable because "I'm intensely pro-law enforcement."
Defendants say this practice violates the state’s own laws. The attorney general is pushing onward anyway.
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