When the California Supreme Court upheld a voter initiative in August to speed executions, some death penalty advocates assumed lethal injections would resume before the end of the year. Now, both backers and opponents of the death penalty concede that executions might be more than...
In 2013, Miami homicide detectives were closing in on suspects in the robbery and killing of a manager at a cellphone store six years earlier. They were focusing on police officer Adrian Rodriguez, who had worked at the cellphone store before joining the Miami Police...
This morning, the first day of the December argument session, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two cases. The first is Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group, a challenge to the constitutionality of inter partes review, a process used to determine...
Facebook and other platforms have emerged as new frontiers in the fight against violent crime that continues to grip major cities, the Wall Street Journal reports. In Chicago, which is on track to have more than 600 murders for the second year in a row,...
It’s finally here: Carpenter v. United States. For months, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the argument in this hugely important case about whether the Fourth Amendment restricts the government’s ability to get location information from cellphone service providers. (Ian has been waiting even longer, as he...
As Americans head to stores and malls this holiday season, many retailers have a warning for shoplifters. If you’re caught, expect to be “sentenced” to a course run by a private company aimed at correcting your behavior–and to pay as much as $500 for the privilege. Since...