In U.S. v. Jones, 132 S. Ct. 945 (2012), the Supreme Court’s first major ruling on the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices, the Court unanimously held that attaching a GPS device to the vehicle, and the use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitute a search under …

In the 10/21/13 issue of P&J, we noted an important sentencing entrapment case arising out of a reverse sting operation in which a panel from the Ninth Circuit held, for the first time, that a defendant "is entitled to present his sentencing entrapment defense to the jury if the success …

The defendant in this case, Zavkiberg Ashurov, a citizen of Tajikistan, entered the United States under a visitor's visa and subsequently sought to obtain an F-1 student visa that would permit him to enroll in an English language program and temporarily remain in the U.S.. As part of the F-1 …

On August 7, 1998, the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were destroyed by truck bombs within minutes of each other. The bomb at the Embassy in Kenya killed 213 people, including twelve United States citizens; and the bomb at the Embassy in Tanzania killed 12 …