U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar denied a motion to dismiss charges against David Brooks Pokorny, ruling that a series of emails threatening to skin Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer to death constituted unprotected "true threats" rather than...
The Third Circuit vacated Tarik Chambers' guilty plea and reassigned his case to a different district judge, ruling that the original judge violated Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1) by improperly participating in plea discussions and pressuring...
A Manhattan federal judge denied both sides' Daubert motions in full, allowing competing statistical analyses, a blind allocation exercise, and dueling regression models to go.
Four Supreme Court justices have raised serious constitutional questions about nitrogen hypoxia executions, with a scheduled June 11 Alabama execution set to give the court its next opportunity to intervene.
A New Jersey appellate panel reversed Willie Tanner's convictions for first-degree attempted murder and five counts of first-degree armed robbery, ruling that prosecutors violated Brady by withholding a psychologist's oral report that their critical trial...
A Cambodian-American lawful permanent resident who admitted to drug charges in 2015 never received the immigration warning the law required — and a rule-based substitute did not fix it, the state's highest court held.
A federal judge in Manhattan allowed both sides to present statistical expert testimony trial of a former Western Asset Management executive, while warning experts against opining on the defendant’s mental state.
The Tenth Circuit will resolve a circuit split over whether non-Indian status is an element of a crime or an affirmative defense under the General Crimes Act, granting en banc rehearing in two criminal cases.
A First Circuit panel held that the federal ban on firearm possession by undocumented immigrants is consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of regulating arms, reversing a district court’s dismissal of a charge against an undocumented immigrant.
The state’s highest court ruled that the Ohio Constitution’s guarantee of counsel applies only to trials, not police interrogations, and rejected a defendant’s claim that he invoked his federal right to an attorney during questioning.
A federal grand jury charged James Comey with two criminal counts after he posted an image reading "86 47" on Instagram last year.
A Manhattan federal judge denied cross-motions to exclude expert testimony in the securities fraud prosecution of former Western Asset Management Chief Investment Officer S. Kenneth Leech II, but ordered both sides to agree on trial language that stops...
A man doing laundry at 11:30 p.m. lost his gun to Pittsburgh police who had no legal basis to take it, a federal judge ruled.
A Pennsylvania man acquitted of killing his attacker sued the state trooper who charged him without telling the magistrate that witnesses said he was outnumbered and not the initial aggressor.
A Waukegan man charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm kept gun evidence suppressed after police continued searching a basement long after their protective sweep was complete.
A Manhattan federal judge denied cross-motions to exclude expert testimony in the securities and commodities fraud prosecution of S. Kenneth Leech II, ruling that none of the six proposed experts crossed the threshold for exclusion under Daubert or the...
The high court heard arguments Monday in a case that could reshape how law enforcement uses location data from tech giants to track suspects.
A Manhattan federal judge has denied cross-motions to exclude six expert witnesses in the securities and commodities fraud prosecution of S. Kenneth Leech, II, the former Chief Investment Officer of Western Asset Management Company, allowing both sides to...
A Manhattan federal judge has denied cross-motions to exclude expert testimony in a complex financial fraud prosecution, allowing all six competing statistical experts—four from the government and two from the defense—to testify in a case centered on...
The New York Court of Appeals held Thursday that defendants cannot waive their right to a sentencing hearing under the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act as a condition of a plea bargain, reversing the Appellate Division.