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Criminal Practice
Criminal Practice Law360 provides timely news and analysis on criminal law and enforcement across U.S. jurisdictions. Coverage includes major prosecutions, sentencing trends, constitutional challenges, legislative developments, and key rulings impacting prosecutors, defense attorneys, and the courts.
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Latest News in Criminal Practice
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August 04, 2025
5th Circ. Says Appeal Over Mexican Bank Discovery Looks Moot
The Fifth Circuit pushed a Mexican businessman to explain how his appeal was not moot after a special master was appointed to review documents relating to an alleged fraud against Mexican financial institutions, saying Monday the businessman has seemingly already gotten the relief he sought.
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August 04, 2025
New Conn. Assault Trial Ordered Over Crucial Tattoo Evidence
A Connecticut appeals court has ordered a new trial for a man sentenced to over five years in prison for an assault at a Denny's, finding that his constitutional rights were violated when a trial court refused to allow potentially exculpatory evidence showing that, unlike the perpetrator, he had no tattoos.
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August 04, 2025
D.C. Circuit Court Backs FBI Agent's Bribery Sentence
The D.C. Circuit Court has affirmed a former FBI special agent's two-year sentence for taking a bribe in connection with a property-buying scheme, finding that he accepted at least $6,500 from a real estate developer in exchange for illegally sharing information from a protected database to which the FBI subscribed.
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August 04, 2025
Fla. High Court Vacates Drug Charges Over Speedy Trial Rules
A Florida appeals court has permanently tossed a drug case against a man after a counting error led to him being held for over 180 days without a trial after being extradited from another state in violation of his right to a speedy trial.
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August 04, 2025
'Pig Butchering' Seizure Is A Milestone In Crypto Crime Fight
The U.S.' recent seizure of $225 million in crypto funds in a massive "pig butchering" scheme highlights the transformative impact of blockchain analysis in law enforcement, and the increasing necessity of collaboration between law enforcement agencies, cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.
Areas of Coverage
- Influential appellate decisions in state supreme and federal circuit courts—especially those guiding trial strategy and evidentiary standards
- Developments in intermediate state appellate courts with potential to shape precedent.
- Federal, state, and local legislation or regulation impacting courts, prosecutors, and defenders.
- Developments from state attorneys general, including prosecutions, policy shifts, and personnel moves
- Criminal justice reform efforts and the impact on state and local prosecutions.
- Unique criminal cases at the trial court level, in state or federal court
- Civil appellate opinions affecting the criminal bar, such as rulings on qualified immunity.
- Innovations in criminal law education and defense training at law schools.
- Profiles of judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and others impacting criminal law.
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- POLICY & REGULATION
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- State legislative initiatives in criminal prosecutions and defense
- ENFORCEMENT
- Misconduct investigations and disciplinary actions involving prosecutors and defenders
- PROFILES
- Profiles of individual prosecutors, public defenders and private criminal defense attorneys
- Profiles of firms and public offices
Readership
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