Criminal Practice

  • June 11, 2025

    Amazon Union Reps Defend Suit Challenging NYPD Arrests

    Amazon should face claims that it started illegally calling the police on labor demonstrations after its workers' union affiliated with the Teamsters, Amazon Labor Union officials argued, asking a New York federal judge to preserve a lawsuit that also names the New York Police Department as a defendant.

  • June 10, 2025

    US Judge Tells Some Agents To Disarm In Connecticut Courts

    Connecticut's chief federal judge issued a standing order Monday updating the weapons policy for the state's federal courthouses, including limiting some law enforcement officers' ability to carry weapons in certain areas without permission, a step he took not long after banning most arrests and detentions in the courthouses.

  • June 10, 2025

    Mass. Court-Appointed Attys Hit 'Boiling Point' Over Low Pay

    Hundreds of private attorneys in Massachusetts who are paid by the state to represent indigent defendants and others have stopped accepting new court-appointed cases over complaints about low pay, putting the system on what one veteran advocate called "the verge of imploding."

  • June 10, 2025

    Ex-Conn. Attorney Sues AG Bondi To Restore Gun Rights

    A Connecticut attorney who served prison time for a tax offense has sued federal and state officials to demand the restoration of his right to possess firearms and ammunition, arguing that the prohibition on that right is unconstitutional as applied to him.

  • June 09, 2025

    Man Gets New Trial After Cop Testified To Witness Credibility

    A Florida appeals court reversed a man's conviction on charges of burglary, manslaughter and conspiracy for his alleged role in a home invasion robbery after finding that the court erred in allowing a detective to testify to the credibility of the prosecution's key witness.

  • June 09, 2025

    Russian Crypto CEO, Charged With $530M Fraud, Can't Get Bail

    The Russian CEO of Miami-based cryptocurrency firm Evita was arrested and charged Monday with 22 criminal counts for allegedly orchestrating a $530 million scheme to dodge U.S. sanctions and export controls and launder funds, prompting a New York federal judge to deny him bail given his incentive to flee.

  • June 09, 2025

    Judge Denies Obstructing ICE As Disciplinary Hearing Begins

    An attorney for a Massachusetts state judge, who was accused of plotting to let a man wanted by immigration agents escape out of a back door of a courthouse in 2018, said at the start of a disciplinary inquiry Monday that the judge did not know about the plan, pointing the finger at the wanted man's lawyer.

  • June 09, 2025

    Senators Seek Probe Into SEIU Leader's Arrest At ICE Raid

    Three Democratic senators called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Justice on Monday to provide legal justification for the arrest of the president of a Service Employees International Union affiliate in California during an immigration enforcement raid last week.

  • June 09, 2025

    Chinese Student Accused Of Smuggling Roundworms To US

    A Chinese student pursuing a doctoral degree in Wuhan has been charged with smuggling roundworms to recipients associated with a University of Michigan laboratory and lying to federal agents about it, according to an announcement Monday by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan. 

  • June 09, 2025

    Fla. Sheriff Charged In $21M Gambling, Corruption Scheme

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has issued an executive order suspending a county sheriff following a state and federal investigation into an illegal $21.6 million gambling operation, resulting in racketeering-related charges against the law enforcement official for his involvement in the enterprise, state officials said.

  • June 06, 2025

    High Court Says Software Glitch Led To Early Order List Drop

    An "apparent software malfunction" caused the U.S. Supreme Court's order list to be issued early Friday, orders in which the justices granted certiorari in four cases and refused to take up a long list of other ones, including cases centered on Pennsylvania's election system and the Obama Presidential Center.

  • June 06, 2025

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia Back In US To Face Smuggling Charges

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration removed to an El Salvador prison in March, is back in the U.S. and charged by a federal grand jury in Tennessee with smuggling unauthorized immigrants, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

  • June 06, 2025

    Judge Allows New Plaintiffs In 'Good Time' Sentencing Suit

    A Michigan federal judge said Friday that a proposed class alleging they were denied timely release from jail because the sheriff refused to provide so-called good-time credit to their criminal contempt sentences can add new plaintiffs to the case, rejecting the sheriff's arguments that the proposed new parties were improperly solicited.

  • June 06, 2025

    Atty Gets Prison For Conn. Law Firm Parking Lot Shooting

    A onetime Cramer & Anderson LLP partner was sentenced Friday to a seven-year prison term after being convicted of first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting an attacker in the parking lot of his rural Litchfield, Connecticut, law firm, although his incarceration will be suspended after 2½ years.

  • June 05, 2025

    Grindr Sued Over Teen's Death, Alleged Negligence In Fla.

    The family of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly killed and later dismembered by a couple she met through the Grindr dating app has sued the company in Florida federal court, alleging there were no age verification safeguards that prevented the teen from being targeted by sexual predators.

  • June 05, 2025

    Fla. Justices Set New Atty Suspension Rule For Felony Cases

    Florida attorneys who are charged with a felony will soon be given the opportunity to respond before the issuing of an interim suspension under a new rule created by the Florida Supreme Court Thursday.

  • June 05, 2025

    How Trump's Pardons Could Sway Prosecutorial Discretion

    As President Donald Trump dismantles a growing list of white collar criminal cases with a flurry of clemency grants early in his second term, erasing years of investigative and prosecutorial work with a stroke of his black Sharpie, experts worry his actions will have a chilling effect on prosecutorial decision-making.

  • June 04, 2025

    High Court Told 'Categorical' Right To Counsel Must Persist

    A criminal defendant's right to consult with counsel during an overnight trial recess is "clear and categorical," a man who didn't receive that right has told the U.S. Supreme Court in preparation for his Sixth Amendment case to be heard before the justices.

  • June 04, 2025

    Judge Says DHS Can't Deport Colo. Attack Suspect's Family

    A Colorado federal judge on Wednesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting the wife and children of an Egyptian man accused of violently attacking peaceful pro-Israel demonstrators on Sunday in Boulder.

  • June 03, 2025

    Profs Back Shinnecock Tribe In Long Island Fishing Rights Suit

    A group of law and history professors have backed the Shinnecock Indian Nation in three tribal members' lawsuit claiming New York state and Suffolk County wrongly engaged in a pattern of criminal prosecutions against them for fishing in waters where they have aboriginal rights to fish.

  • June 03, 2025

    9th Circ. Wary Of Dormant Commerce Application To Cannabis

    A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday appeared skeptical that constitutional doctrine barring states from impeding interstate commerce should apply to the federally illegal marijuana market in a pair of cases involving cannabis business licenses in Washington state and Sacramento, California.

  • June 03, 2025

    Fla. Jury Finds CEO Guilty In $1.4B Medicare Fraud

    A Florida federal jury on Tuesday found a software company CEO guilty of participating in a scheme to coordinate illegal medical kickbacks through an internet platform, resulting in about $1.4 billion worth of false billings to Medicare and other insurers for unnecessary medical products, including orthotic braces.

  • June 03, 2025

    Mich. High Court To Weigh Warrantless DNA Testing Legality

    The Michigan Supreme Court will consider whether to take on an appeal from a man convicted of murder who says the police's warrantless testing of his clothes while he was jailed on unrelated warrants was unlawful.

  • June 03, 2025

    NJ Mayor Accuses US Atty Habba Of Defamation, False Arrest

    Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka filed suit Tuesday against interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba over his May 9 arrest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility he was visiting with three members of Congress, claiming false arrest, malicious prosecution and defamation.

  • June 03, 2025

    NJ Securities Enforcer Elevated To Interim Chief

    A former attorney at the New York Stock Exchange and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has been tapped to lead the Garden State's securities enforcement division, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin has announced.

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