In this memorable and heartfelt decision that examines the realities of the devastating and long term consequences of criminal convictions - even if for petty non-violent crimes, District Judge John Gleeson granted the petitioner’s application to expunge her 13-year-old conviction "because of the undue hardship it has created for her ...

In this case, the Fifth Circuit issued a notable ruling about the survival of claims of ineffective assistance of counsel under the rule laid down in Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010). In Padilla, the Court announced a "dramatic expansion of the scope of criminal defense counsel's duties under ...

The never ending saga of Ali Hamza al-Bahlul’s (“Bahlul”) captivity by the U.S. at the Naval prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba continues - even though all three of the crimes for which he was convicted by a military commission have now been vacated by the D.C. Circuit.

Shortly after the ...

A jury convicted Reginald Daniels of possessing a handgun with an obliterated serial number as a felon. He appealed his convictions, arguing that numerous and repeated errors by the district court (Judge John O’Meara of the E.D.Mich.) or their cumulative effect rendered his trial “fundamentally unfair.”

The Sixth Circuit agreed; ...

In 2004, Moones Mellouli, a native of Tunisia, entered the United States on a student visa and later became a lawful permanent resident. In 2010, Mellouli was stopped for a traffic related offense which led to the discovery of four orange pills in one of his socks. He ultimately pled ...

In this case, the Supreme Court made it harder to prosecute people for threats made on Facebook and other social media under a Federal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which makes it a federal crime to transmit in interstate commerce “any communication containing any threat . . . to injure ...