Supreme Court Rules Absconding from Court’s Supervision While Serving a Term of Supervised Release Doesn’t Atomically Extend Term of Supervised Release In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court weighed whether or not a criminal defendant’s term of supervised release is...
Technology Emerging as Crime-Solving Tool and Civil Liberties Risk Facial recognition technology has become a hotly debated issue in and around the Chicagoland, with a recent proposed bill looking to curtail the practice in law enforcement. The proposed bill, the...
Controversial Practice Already “Categorically” Prohibited by Lower Courts As we have previously covered, law enforcement’s use of “geofencing” warrants, which uses GPS, cellular networks, and Wi-Fi to track location information of potential users at a specific time...
Predator Vigilantes, Viral Justice, and the Legal Minefield As we have previously covered, there is a growing trend across the United States in which private individuals or groups seek to entrap, record, and expose suspected sexual predators through “sting”...
Landmark Ruling Finds that Conversations with Chatbots Generally Aren’t Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege With the rise of artificial intelligence and the popularity of chatbots, it was inevitable that courts were going to be forced to deal with a fundamental...
Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office to Take Lead to Prosecutorial Task Force Earlier last week, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago will serve as a lead prosecutorial partner on the...
