By R. Robin McDonald | January 31, 2018
Former NSA contractor Reality Winner's defense team had called her continued detention without bond "manifestly unjust."
By John Council | January 31, 2018
Javier Duarte De Ochoa fled to Guatemala as a fugitive as corruption allegations against him mounted.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Christopher Dunn | January 31, 2018
In his Civil Rights and Civil Liberties column, Christopher Dunn revisits the troubling practice of denying bail to arrestees deemed to pose a threat to public safety. He writes: "The deeply controversial nature of this form of preventive detention is largely lost in the current bail-reform debate, but it was only 30 years ago that the Supreme Court definitively addressed the issue. And it did so in a decision that lays bare the extraordinary constitutional implications of jailing people, often for years, who are presumed to be innocent on the supposition they will commit a future crime.:
By Katheryn Tucker | January 31, 2018
“As the U.S. Attorney, I am grateful for the opportunity to lead an office with so many talented and dedicated professionals,” U.S. Attorney Pak said. “It is my sincere belief that these changes will energize the office and help us focus on the matters that are the most impactful to the citizens of our district.”
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | January 31, 2018
The First Judicial District received a bit of a black eye recently in the ongoing dust-up over hip-hop star Meek Mill's parole violation case when it had to fire a court clerk in the wake of revelations that she had asked the rapper to help pay her child's college tuition.
New Jersey Law Journal | Update
By Charles Toutant | January 31, 2018
The Department of Justice filed a motion on Wednesday to dismiss the indictment of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, and Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen on corruption charges.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen | January 31, 2018
Does society need retribution in the form of a judge pointing her finger at the defendant using the same kind of invective that one might see—and, indeed, expect—from an individual victim?
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By David Lenefsky | January 30, 2018
David Lenefsky addresses the question: Does denial of parole make any sense after an inmate has an impeccable institutional record for 15, 20 or 25 years?
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Lewis Rosenberg | January 30, 2018
The mainly upstate district attorneys who oppose bail reform base their objections on a "push back" on achieving a "disposition on the alleged crime." This latter point admits that incarceration pressures the indigent to plead guilty.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Joe Martini, James Glasser and Judd Lindenfeld | January 30, 2018
The new FCPA policy provides the much-needed assurance that fulsome voluntary self-disclosure of FCPA violations will likely serve to avoid criminal prosecution. At the same time, the new FCPA policy signals that the government will continue to combat corporate misconduct by focusing on individual misconduct.
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