The facts before the Court in this case were relatively straightforward. The Petitioner, Elijah Manuel, was arrested and held in jail for 48 days after a judge relied on allegedly fabricated evidence to find probable cause that Manuel had committed a crime. Approximately two years later, Manual brought a “Bivens ...

In 1980, Bobby James Moore fatally shot a store clerk during a botched robbery of a grocery store in Texas. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. Since his conviction, Moore has spent more than 35 years living on death row; and 15 of those years were ...

The Defendant in this case, Dr. Naeem Kohli, an Illinois physician, was convicted on multiple counts of prescribing narcotics without a legitimate medical purpose in violation of § 841(a) of the Controlled Substances Act. His appeal raises a number of issues common to the growing number of cases involving the ...

This is another of the growing number of “pill mill” cases in which the Government has been bringing criminal prosecutions against pharmacists for participating in the illegal distribution of pain killers. The defendant in this case, Kofi Agyekum (“Kofi), was the “licensed pharmacist intern” of the A+ Care Pharmacy in ...

One of the most oppressive and frequently used mandatory minimum statutes is 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), which makes it a separate crime to use or possess a firearm in connection with a violent or drug trafficking crime. That separate offense carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for the ...

This is an intriguing and provocative decision that debates whether the rash of new gun laws that have been sprouting up all across our nation in the aftermath of District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) are, of necessity, radically changing the face some of the long-established assumptions ...