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• March 13, 2025

  NJ State Police Agree To Clear Expungements In 120 Days

  The New Jersey State Police have agreed to process judicial expungement orders within 120 days, resolving litigation over yearslong delays in the clearing of expunged criminal records, the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender announced Thursday.

• March 11, 2025

  Former Immigration Judges Defend Legal Services Programs

  A group of former immigration judges and Board of Immigration Appeals members told a D.C. federal judge that legal services programs for unrepresented detained immigrants that the Trump administration stopped funding help the courts function more efficiently.

• March 11, 2025

  Ex-Prosecutor's Handling Of 2017 Protest Evidence Defended

  A former federal prosecutor accused of withholding key evidence in the criminal cases against hundreds of people arrested at a 2017 anti-Trump demonstration in Washington, D.C., was working "under profoundly challenging conditions" at the time, her attorney told an ethics panel in the nation's capital on Tuesday.

• March 10, 2025

  Bad Police Work Led To 30-Year Sentence, Conn. Jury Told

  A Connecticut man who served 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit should be compensated because one local police officer failed to disclose key evidence and another sat by as the state police fed facts to an informant, his attorneys told a federal jury Monday afternoon.

• March 10, 2025

  DC Ethics Hearing Over Anti-Trump Protest Arrests To Kick Off

  A former federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., is set to face an attorney ethics panel Tuesday in disciplinary proceedings that could shed new light on how the government handled key evidence in cases against hundreds of people arrested at protests of President Donald Trump's first inauguration in 2017.

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