By Michael A. Mora | April 14, 2023
"This is precisely the sort of chilling effect that the Florida Supreme Court has sought to avoid in over a century of consistent jurisprudence," U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola Jr. ruled.
By Jim Saunders | April 14, 2023
The bill would affect only the sentencing process and not what is known as the "guilt phase" of murder cases. Juries would still have to be unanimous in finding defendants guilty before sentencing could begin.
By The Associated Press | April 14, 2023
U.S. District Judge Mark H. Cohen sentenced Antonio Brown to 18 months of probation, with the first eight to be served confined to home. During the hearing, Cohen noted that Brown previously served three years on supervised pretrial probation with no issues or infractions.
By Colleen Murphy | April 14, 2023
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, federal prosecutor Kathryn Drey of Pensacola, Florida, directed contracts from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida to companies in which her spouse had a financial interest.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen and Gerald B. Lefcourt | April 13, 2023
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has chosen to venture significantly beyond using the bare-bones indictment. Accordingly, while did he file a spartan Trump indictment, contemporaneously he filed a 13-page "Statement of Facts" that was made available to the public.
By Emily Saul | April 13, 2023
The Bronx District Attorney Office's Digital Forensics Laboratory is the first to be accredited in New York State, and only the fourth nationwide. It's led by ADA Peter Kennedy and Lab Director Selena Ley.
By Jason Grant | April 13, 2023
The lawyer for Stormy Daniels is trying to get Donald Trump's co-lead defense lawyer pushed off the "hush-payments" case, and Trump's attorney is firing back, telling the New York Law Journal late Wednesday that he's written to the judge to complain that Daniels' lawyer has engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.
By Brian Lee | April 12, 2023
According to public defender groups, the proposed change amounts to an 11th-hour budget measure that would turn back the clock on reforms that included requirements for district attorneys to share discovery material in a more timely manner.
By ALM Staff | April 12, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar.
By Allison Dunn | April 12, 2023
"Because the PCR court utilized a faulty analysis to conclude there was no merit to the speedy trial claim, it did not analyze counsel's strategy in failing to assert Winchester's right to a speedy trial at any stage of the proceedings," Associate Justice Catherine R. Connors wrote on behalf of the unanimous court.
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