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- 1From:The Washington PostByline: Rachel Weiner and Spencer S. Hsu WASHINGTON - Asking an FBI agent to name cereals. Making wild claims of government plots and executions. Near daily, calling for a mistrial. As the federal seditious...
- 2From:Michigan Lawyers WeeklyByline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Charles Burnham and Harvey A. Silverglate As attorneys involved in representing people accused of committing crimes, naturally we are both acutely aware of several provisions of...
- 3From:Massachusetts Lawyers WeeklyByline: Kris Olson How unfairly Rule 24 of the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure can operate still summons outrage from Brockton criminal defense attorney John A. Amabile. Among other things, the rule...
- 4From:Massachusetts Lawyers WeeklyByline: Pat Murphy A criminal rules committee has responded to the Supreme Judicial Court's request for a "checklist" defining exculpatory evidence by proposing an overhaul to existing discovery rules that makes clear...
- 5From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: PAM HRICK, KAT OWENS, FARRAH KHAN Pam Hrick is the executive director and general counsel at the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). Kat Owens is project director at LEAF. Farrah Khan is the...
- 6From:The Washington PostByline: Amanda Coletta TORONTO - Canada's Supreme Court ruled Friday that criminal defendants may argue that they were so intoxicated that they were in a state of automatism and therefore not responsible for some...
- 7From:Massachusetts Lawyers WeeklyByline: Kris Olson Members of the criminal defense bar say they are grateful the Supreme Judicial Court has recognized that when police receive and analyze vast troves of cell site location information from "tower...
- 8From:USA TodayByline: John Fritze and Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Federal Park Police stormed into an apartment 4miles east of the U.S. Capitol one fall morning in 2003. After using a battering ram and ordering everyone to...
- 9From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: VANSHIKA DHAWAN Law student at the University of Toronto, whose research has focused on sexual assault and survivor discourses In my first-year criminal-law class, I was posed this question: What is the goal of...
- 10From:All Things ConsideredTo listen to this broadcast, click here: BYLINE: SACHA PFEIFFER HOST: ADRIAN FLORIDO ADRIAN FLORIDO: Days before the Super Bowl, a former NFL player was sent to prison for attempted murder. And he had a novel...
- 11From:The New York TimesVeteran defense lawyers, including one who defended Kyle Rittenhouse, said the risk Ms. Maxwell would take by testifying probably outweighs any potential reward. Not long after prosecutors announce that they are...
- 12From:The Washington PostByline: Jay Greene and Rachel Lerman Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will likely argue in her criminal trial that abuse by her ex-boyfriend, who was also the company's president, rendered her incapable of making...
- 13From:USA TodayByline: Eric Ferkenhoff, USA TODAY Derek Chauvin's trial in the death of George Floyd appears to be a match of a lone defense attorney battling a stacked prosecution by the Minnesota Attorney General's Office with...
- 14From:The Washington PostByline: Teri Kanefield and Mark Reichel Federal agents spent the weekend arresting people around the nation who were allegedly part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday after President Donald Trump urged...
- 15From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Lead TORONTO The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to weigh in on a ruling related to the defence of extreme intoxication that had alarmed some women's groups. The court...
- 16From:Virginia Lawyers WeeklyByline: Peter Vieth A Fairfax County judge has taken law enforcement to task for a nine-month delay in disclosing information helpful to the defense of a man charged with first-degree murder. "The Commonwealth buried...
- 17From:Massachusetts Lawyers WeeklyByline: Pat Murphy Lawyers who defend police accused of misconduct are alert to the potential impact that the death of George Floyd and other alleged cases of officers using excessive force against minorities could...
- 18From:Massachusetts Lawyers WeeklyByline: Pat Murphy Criminal defense lawyers say two recent decisions by the Supreme Judicial Court are necessary steps forward on the issue of racial fairness in policing, and at the same time lay the groundwork for...
- 19From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: COLIN PERKEL, THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Lead Canada's highest court will be asked to weigh in on a ruling that reopened the door for people accused of violent crimes to argue they were so intoxicated...
- 20From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: SEAN FINE, Staff Lead Extreme intoxication akin to automatism is a legitimate defence in acts of violence, including sexual assault and murder, Ontario's top court ruled on Wednesday in declaring...