Eric Tucker

April 27, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Loretta Lynch has been sworn in as the nation's 83rd attorney general.

By Eric Tucker

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April 26, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Loretta Lynch has been sworn in as the nation's 83rd attorney general.

By Eric Tucker

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February 24, 2015 | Daily Report Online

George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in a 2012 confrontation with the teenager, will not face federal charges, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

By Eric Tucker

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February 24, 2015 | Daily Report Online

George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in a 2012 confrontation with the teenager, will not face federal charges, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

By Eric Tucker

3 minute read

October 10, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The Obama administration's plans to screen certain airline passengers for exposure to Ebola are based on the Constitution and long-established legal authority that would almost certainly stand up in court if challenged, public health experts say.

By Eric Tucker

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October 07, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The Justice Department said Tuesday it is reviewing a woman's complaint that a Drug Enforcement Administration agent set up a fake Facebook account using her identity.

By Alicia A. Caldwell and Eric Tucker

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September 04, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The Justice Department plans a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri, police department following the shooting last month of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb, a person briefed on the matter said.

By Eric Tucker

4 minute read

August 26, 2014 | Daily Report Online

As the Justice Department probes the police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in Missouri, history suggests there's no guarantee of a criminal prosecution, let alone a conviction.

By Eric Tucker

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August 13, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The federal panel that sets sentencing policy eased penalties this year for potentially tens of thousands of drug dealers. Now, defense lawyers and prisoner advocates are pushing for similar treatment for an arguably less-sympathetic category of defendants: swindlers, embezzlers, insider traders and other white-collar criminals.

By Eric Tucker

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July 31, 2014 | Daily Report Online

More than 3,300 federal inmates have applied since April to have their prison sentences cut short under a new Justice Department clemency initiative, according to data provided to The Associated Press.

By Eric Tucker

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