By Andrew Denney | February 1, 2018
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Wednesday it has issued a formal policy on making arrests in federal, state and local courthouses, saying it will target convicted criminals and persons considered threats to public safety, but leaving a window open for arrests under “special circumstances.”
By Colby Hamilton | February 1, 2018
The initiative is based on a pilot program for 16- and 17-year-old offenders that launched three years ago in northern Manhattan.
By Kim Chandler, Associated Press | February 1, 2018
The state finance department and attorney general's office argue over whether man freed in 2015 after spending 28 years on death row was proven innocent.
National Law Journal | Analysis
By Lizzy McLellan | February 1, 2018
As Bill Cosby's retrial looms, lawyers consider whether he can get a fair trial amidst the growing #MeToo movement?
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.
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