Due Process & Criminal Defense

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (642+ words) ST. PAUL — Minnesota public defenders are struggling under heavy caseloads to fulfill their constitutional obligation to represent every person accused of a crime who can’t afford a lawyer, according to a report from the Office of the Legislative Auditor released…...

16+ hour, 57+ min ago   (20+ words) Scripps News Extended interview: Cornell accuser's attorney speaks with Scripps News...

21+ hour, 58+ min ago   (150+ words) A Georgia federal district court granted summary judgment to the Georgia Institute of Technology on a female educational outreach manager’s Title VII hostile work environment and retaliation claims, finding the harassment was not severe or pervasive, and no adverse action…...

22+ hour, 58+ min ago   (406+ words) A judge has granted a second motion by Smokey Robinson and his wife to delay a hearing on more than $1 million in attorneys’ fees sought from them by former domestic workers, although the couple had hoped to obtain a stay…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (222+ words) A wrongful conviction can take years of a person’s life away. New research shows that hundreds of people in New York have been cleared after being convicted of crimes they did not commit. The study was released by Davidoff Law…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (296+ words) October 9, 2026 2:45 AM / Staff Report New York employers weighing an applicant’s criminal record must follow legal steps rather than assume a conviction rules out the person, a Cornell labor-law specialist told lawyers at a recent gathering in Ithaca. Bigler reviewed how…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (747+ words) The men held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles have not been convicted of anything. Most are waiting for trial. The law presumes them innocent. Here is how the federal government keeps them. The Federal Bureau of…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (614+ words) “That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape, than that one innocent person should suffer.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) The hardest decision a government prosecutor may ever face is also one of the most important tests of the rule of law: What…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (162+ words) These review petitions came up for hearing before a three-member bench of the SC in March 2023 where, as the Attorney-General for Pakistan, I made the following submissions: (b) While the 2021 judgment had interpreted this to mean only harassment having a “sexual…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (648+ words) Seattle Municipal Court hasn’t had a community court, a therapeutic court where people can be connected with services rather than a jail sentence, since Republican Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison killed it in 2023. On the campaign trail last year, all…...