Covering trends in the criminal courts, analyzing court stats
By Amanda Bronstad | December 1, 2023
Prosecutors insisted in a Thursday brief that Tom Girardi's courtroom behavior—including hurling an expletive at one of them under his breath—shows he's mentally competent to stand trial on criminal charges.
6 minute read
By Rachel McKane and David Pellow | December 1, 2023
Racketeering charges typically are reserved for people accused of conspiring toward a criminal goal, such as members of organized crime networks or financiers engaged in insider trading. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is attempting to build an argument that seeking to stop construction of the police training facility—through actions that include organizing protests, occupying the construction site and vandalizing police cars and construction equipment—constitutes a "corrupt agreement" or shared criminal goal.
7 minute read
By Matt Brown | The Associated Press | December 1, 2023
A record number of Black attorneys general, seven in total, are serving today. Two Black attorneys, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, have servedg as U.S. attorney general. And the vice president, Kamala Harris, was the first Black woman elected attorney general.
13 minute read
By Jeffrey Collins | The Associated Press | November 30, 2023
Academy Sports asked that the amount of the settlement be kept confidential because it could encourage other lawsuits, but a judge ruled it didn't make much of a difference because the case had attracted so much publicity already, and that the public had a right to know how it turned out. The estates of the victims will split the settlement.
3 minute read
By Brian Lee | November 30, 2023
The bill is not meant to punish district attorneys, according to the sponsor's legislative director, but the measure is aimed at ensuring a neutral third party was setting guidelines.
4 minute read
By Emily Wagster Pettus | The Associated Press | November 30, 2023
"If you get arrested in one of these counties where grand juries seldom meet, you can wind up in jail for months or even years just waiting to be indicted, and you will spend more time behind bars simply because of geographic misfortune," said Cliff Johnson, an attorney who is director of the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law.
5 minute read
By Alan Vinegrad and Zora Franicevic | November 30, 2023
A discussion of the effectiveness of alternatives to incarceration (ATI). Authors Alan Vinegard, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District, and Zora Franicevic summarize data from the last 20 years on the effectiveness of ATI as a form of punishment in our country's criminal justice systems.
19 minute read
By Lisa Willis | November 30, 2023
"This is clearly a case of first impression," said appellee attorney Bruce A. Zimet.
4 minute read
By Brian Lee | November 29, 2023
The report has been met with a potential proposal from a key lawmaker in the New York Senate that would seek to improve transparency in the criminal courts of the state.
4 minute read
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | November 29, 2023
The Grammy winner, whose given name is Jeffery Williams, was charged last year in a sprawling indictment that accused him and more than two dozen others of conspiring to violate Georgia's anti-racketeering law. He also is charged with gang, drug and gun crimes and is standing trial with five of the others indicted with him.
6 minute read
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