It’s April, which means it’s time to start speculating about which justices might announce their retirements at the end of the term. Many assume that decision is heavily influenced by a justice’s desire to be replaced by a like-minded jurist. But a recent study by...
Massachusetts’ top court issued another sweeping dismissal order stemming from misconduct by a former chemist at the Amherst, Ma., drug lab and two former state prosecutors, the Boston Globe reports. The order vacates an estimated 11,000 convictions in 7,700 criminal cases, most of them from...
The fatal police shooting of a mentally ill Brooklyn man raises questions about New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s neighborhood policing program, reports the New York Times. Saheed Vassell was known as an idiosyncratic local figure. Plainclothes anti-crime officers who answered a smartphone alert...
Dallas County books 67,000 people into jail each year. In the hulking jail complex, the seventh largest in the U.S., magistrates hold around-the-clock hearings to determine bail. On any given day, about 70 percent of the jail’s 5,000 inmates are there because they can’t afford...
The U.S. Surgeon General is urging people and families at risk of opioid abuse to keep a medication on hand that reverses the effects of an overdose. The medication, naloxone, has become increasingly available at pharmacies without a prescription and is widely carried by police...
In nearly three decades of mass school shootings, the killers mostly use guns owned by a family member, not purchased on their own, the Wall Street Journal reports. As Congress, states, and school districts debate how to prevent a school shooting after a 19-year-old who...