The United States Supreme Court just announced an opinion that clarifies what factors a district court judge can consider when weighing sentencing options in response to a violation of supervised release. When district court judges hand out a sentence on the federal...
Government Initiative Expands to Include Downtown Chicago and Transportation The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Andrew S. Boutros, recently announced that the federal government would be expanding the “Project Safe Neighborhoods”...
The use of a so-called “John Doe DNA warrant” has made the news recently after a convict escaped from an Arkansas prison last week. The inmate, former police chief Grant Hardin, plead guilty to a first-degree murder charge in 2017 when his DNA was entered into the...
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) recently announced that they are undergoing a massive review of any inmates who may have recently been effected by an estimated 6,000 false positive tests for the presence of opioids. There were...
