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The film ties together years of reporting on a legal saga with broad implications for both free speech and sex work.
The film ties together years of reporting on a legal saga with broad implications for both free speech and sex work.
Similar scandals across the country suggest the problem is widespread.
Absolute immunity protects prosecutors even when they commit serious misconduct on the job.
The three defendants remain under indictment for racketeering, along with 58 others.
Three people have pled guilty and two will go to trial over the actor's death.
But for a disastrous raid, narcotics officer Gerald Goines would have been free to continue framing people he thought were guilty.
Former narcotics officer Gerald Goines faces two murder charges for instigating the home invasion that killed Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas.
The case is another example of stretching criminal laws to hold parents accountable for their children's violence.
In charging the former president with illegal election interference, Special Counsel Jack Smith emphasizes the defendant's personal motivation and private means.
The official Democratic Party platform no longer endorses abolishing the death penalty, decriminalizing marijuana, or repealing mandatory minimums.
It's an insane ask for someone convicted of just one nonviolent offense.
The Maryland Supreme Court deemed the evidence sufficient to convict the defendant on sexual abuse and child pornography charges.
Prosecutors' attempts to convert accidental overdoses into homicides are dangerous and morally dubious.
The Institute for Justice says Indianapolis police and prosecutors are exploiting one of the biggest FedEx hubs in the U.S. to seize cash for alleged crimes they never explain.
In a new book, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch describes the "human toll" of proliferating criminal penalties.
According to disciplinary charges against Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens, she suppressed video evidence that would have helped DisruptJ20 defendants.
The decision agreed with Trump that Special Counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed, which could have positive downstream effects for the rest of us, as well.
New Mexico law requires quite a high standard for proving criminal negligence.
Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.
The doctrine makes it nearly impossible for victims of prosecutorial misconduct to get recourse.
By requiring "absolute" immunity for some "official acts" and "presumptive" immunity for others, the justices cast doubt on the viability of Donald Trump's election interference prosecution.
The decision also negates two counts of the federal indictment accusing Donald Trump of illegally interfering in the 2020 presidential election.
Assange's plea deal sets a threatening precedent for free speech and journalism.
Paul Erlinger was sentenced to 15 years in prison based largely on a determination made by a judge—not a jury.
George Norcross III's alleged actions are almost cartoonishly corrupt. But for economic development programs, it's not too far off from business as usual.
Whatever you think of abortion, the Department of Justice's latest approach to these cases is misguided.
The president's son, who faces up to 25 years in prison for conduct that violated no one's rights, can still challenge his prosecution on Second Amendment grounds.
Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.
That take on the former president's New York conviction echoes similarly puzzling claims by many people who should know better.
The lack of a clear rationale for charging Trump with 34 felonies raises a due process issue that is likely to figure in his appeals.
Bans have resulted in what some have called the "whitewashing" of American juries.
Welcome to a system in which laws and regulations are weaponized by the powerful against opponents.
Whatever Trump did after the 2016 presidential election, it seems safe to say that it did not retroactively promote his victory.
There was a glaring mismatch between the charges against the former president and what prosecutors described as the essence of his crime.
The judge said the jurors need not agree about the "unlawful means" that Trump allegedly used to promote his 2016 election.
Closing arguments in the former president's trial highlight the mismatch between the charges and the "election fraud" he supposedly committed.
The Sixth Amendment was originally seen as vital to preserving liberty. Yet it has been consistently watered down.
This week the judge presiding over Trump's trial ruled that jurors do not have to agree on any particular legal theory.
To convert a hush payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are relying on a chain of assumptions with several weak links.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes a tactic from the progressive prosecutors he says he opposes.
Prosecutor Ralph Petty was also employed as a law clerk—by the same judges he argued before.
Dexter Taylor is now a "violent felon," even though his hobby was victimless.
Contrary to what prosecutors say, the former president is not charged with "conspiracy" or "election fraud."
Under the prosecution's theory, Trump would be guilty of falsifying business records even if Daniels made the whole thing up.