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Latest News in Access to Justice
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August 11, 2026
State prosecutors told a North Carolina Court of Appeals panel during arguments on Tuesday that a trial court judge overstepped by vacating the convictions of four men found guilty as teenagers of murdering NBA star Chris Paul's grandfather in 2002, saying the only remedy was to order a new trial.
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August 11, 2026
The Eighth Circuit has ruled that a Minnesota woman lacks standing to sue a police department that failed to test her rape kit evidence for over 16 years, because police decisions on how or whether to investigate a crime are discretionary functions.
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August 07, 2026
With under 200 lawyers, Legal Aid of North Carolina found itself at one point receiving over 300,000 calls to its hotline a year from people in need. So when the opportunity arose to deploy AI to help divert at least some of the call volume, the organization's chief innovation officer thought it was time to take a leap of faith and found a pro bono partner in K&L Gates.
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August 04, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice pushed back against Connecticut's bid to toss the federal government's legal challenge to a state law subjecting in-custody deaths to state oversight, requiring federal agents to wear identifying badges, and banning law enforcement officers from wearing facemasks, calling the act "blatantly unconstitutional."
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August 03, 2026
New Haven, Connecticut, has asked a federal judge to lower the $38 million award that a jury ordered for a felony murder exoneree after finding that local police engaged in a widespread pattern of concealing evidence, arguing the city was improperly associated with a former detective of "low character" who is now the subject of a criminal referral.
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