The Supreme Court will decide whether U.S. courts can issue warrants for data stored overseas under current federal law, adding another major case on digital privacy and the Fourth Amendment to its docket this term, The Atlantic reports. The justices agreed to hear U.S. v....
Houston’s “Tourniquet Killer” is on his way to the Texas death chamber. Anthony Shore, the confessed serial rapist and strangler whose murders in the 1980s and 1990s went unsolved for more than a decade, is scheduled for execution Wednesday evening. The courts have rejected his...
The urgency of criminal-justice reform has become a rare matter of bipartisan consensus in Washington, editorializes the Washington Post. A reform bill introduced two years ago failed to make it to the Senate floor. The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, sponsored by Senate Judiciary Committee...
Two Chinese nationals have been indicted on charges that they manufactured tons of fentanyl and other powerful narcotics that were then peddled in the U.S., the Associated Press reports. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the indictments Tuesday, saying that the pair ran one of...
It’s always good news when an innocent person is exonerated. But how many wrongful convictions that come to light would have been reversed years earlier if appellate courts had done their job? The public hears about miscarriages of justice caused by lying witnesses, prosecutors hiding evidence...
Justice Elena Kagan momentarily hedged her bets yesterday afternoon in front of an audience of law students at Chicago-Kent College of Law. But after struggling to find proper qualifiers, she didn’t hold back: “I don’t see how anyone could disagree with this: Thurgood Marshall was...