In his opening paragraph, Judge Hughes succinctly summarized the issues at stake in this unlawful search of all passengers on a commercial bus at a phony checkpoint case. He wrote:

“This case illustrates the dilemma of detention and the fiction of freedom. The police in Conroe routinely board intercity buses ...

The relevant facts in this drug-trafficking conspiracy case began in September 2015 when U.S. Customs and Border Protection got a tip that a coastal freighter named the Ana Cecilia was going to be carrying narcotics upon returning to Miami from a trip to Haiti. When the boat arrived, customs agents ...

In this decision, Judge Caproni held that the Federal statute prohibiting violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity (18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(1)) was invalid, under the Eighth Amendment, as applied to juveniles to the extent it provided for a mandatory minimum sentence of life imprisonment. In reaching that conclusion, the ...

U.S. v. Dimasi, 215 F.Supp.3d 179 (D.Mass. Oct. 17, 2016) (“DiMasi I”) (Judge Mark Wolf)
U.S. v. Dimasi, 220 F.Supp.3d 173 (D.Mass. Nov. 17, 2016) (“DiMasi II”) (Judge Mark Wolf)

The recent history of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) so-called “compassionate release” program is, and has been from the ...

Because plea bargains have rendered criminal trials virtually obsolete in the Federal system, motions to suppress evidence have become one of the last areas in which a defendant has any chance of defeating the criminal charges against him. As a result, criminal defense attorneys should always examine creative ways of ...