Here the Court issued a stinging rebuke to Federal prosecutors for their failure to comply with their disclosure obligations under Brady v. Maryland, after concluding that “on multiple occasions" they had consciously avoided their Brady responsibilities.

The six defendants in this case were charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud ...

Even though many sentences for child pornography crimes already exceed, by a wide margin, the sentences imposed for most murders, rapes and armed bank robberies, the courts seem reluctant to correct that disparity; and the instant decision is a good example of such reluctance.

In this case Cory Reibel pled ...

In its excellent amicus brief filed in this case, the NACDL framed the issue before the Court as follows:

“This case addresses the important question of the level of scienter required by § 924(c)(1)(B)(ii), and its resolution is likely to have a significant effect on the interpretation of other federal ...

In City of Indianapolis v. Edmond, 531 U.S. 32 (2000), the Supreme Court held that a police program of setting up suspicionless roadblocks at random checkpoints to catch possible drug offenders violates the Fourth Amendment because the primary purpose of such roadblocks is to discover evidence of ordinary wrongdoing - ...

Despite the Supreme Court’s recent refusal to establish a new rule requiring courts to evaluate eyewitness evidence made in a suggestive setting before it is submitted to the jury (see, Perry v. New Hampshire, 565 U.S. ___, 132 S.Ct. 176 (2012)), the reliability of eyewitness testimony remains the grist of ...