By Michael Jaccarino | January 15, 2024
This article focuses on an amendment to the sentencing guidelines which will allow defendants awaiting sentencing, and even those already serving sentences, to significantly reduce their prison time.
By Leah Nowotarski, Chair, Criminal Justice Section | January 11, 2024
Leah Nowotarski, chair of the Criminal Justice Section, writes: Mental health is the hottest topic in criminal justice. For far too long, it has not been given the attention that it deserves. Finally forced to confront it, how should the criminal justice system deal with it?
By Charles Toutant | January 10, 2024
"The indictment alleges the protected legislative activity itself, and seeks to draw an inference of illicit bribery by impugning the senator's motives for those acts. That is precisely what the Speech or Debate Clause forbids," the senator's motion to dismiss said.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 10, 2024
U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton, who on Jan. 2 found Girardi competent to stand trial, rejected arguments from Girardi's lawyers to push the trial into next year.
By Sudhin Thanawala | The Associated Press | January 9, 2024
Community leaders say what's also unsettling is the relatively young ages of most of the defendants—five are in their 20s and one is 15—and their religious ties.
By Avalon Zoppo | January 9, 2024
The appellate court appears skeptical of the former president's immunity claim.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 5, 2024
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton in Los Angeles unsealed her competency order, concluding that the arguments of Girardi's lawyers were "wholly lacking in credibility," and some evidence showed "no more than normal age-related decline."
By Avalon Zoppo | January 5, 2024
Avenatti's attorney argued that U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman's instruction had singled out and coerced the holdout, warranting a new trial.
By Alex Anteau | January 4, 2024
"I can't get away from [the fact that] elections have consequences," Judge Trea Pipkin said.
By Brian Lee | January 4, 2024
The group released two studies comparing decisions by justice courts with city courts in five counties in the wake of lawmakers instituting landmark bail reforms that removed financial considerations from pretrial release for most misdemeanor and nonviolent felonies in 2020.
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