Plans to Abruptly Close Several Facilities Due to Budget Restraints Revealed As we have previously covered, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) has been grappling with several issues that have hampered the BOP and its ability to provide necessary support for...
Supreme Court Rules Raw Cannabis Smell Justifies Search of Vehicle Just months after ruling that the smell of burnt cannabis alone cannot justify a police officer subsequently searching a vehicle, as we covered here, the Illinois Supreme Court found that the opposite...
Lack of Staffing, Crumbling Infrastructure, and Presence of Contraband Plaguing Bureau of Prisons Following a series of unannounced inspections by the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) facilities, the OIG recently released a publicly...
Search Reveals Over $40 Million of Cocaine in Vehicle Illinois State Police brought felony charges against 27-year-old Vanshpreet Singh and 36-year-old Manpreet Singh, both from Canada, after recovering over $40 million of cocaine during a traffic stop. Police pulled...
Inactivity Reboot Feature Makes iPhone More Secure Police agencies suddenly issued alarms recently when they noticed that suddenly iPhones in their possession were quietly rebooting on their own, frustrating law enforcement who had previously seized the phone and...
District Court Ruling Sets Up Appellate Court Battle As we have previously covered, multiple times, a court made a key ruling around the Illinois statewide ban against the future sale, distribution or possession of what are commonly referred to as assault rifles in...
Appellate Court Finds Law Enforcement Violated Constitutional Rights with Warrantless Search of Email Containing Possible Child Pornography The Second Circuit of Appeals recently found that law enforcement violated the 4th Amendment rights of an individual when they...
Voters to Weigh in on Marijuana Legalization, Police Funding, and Other Issues With the upcoming election in November, voters in several states will have the opportunity to vote on several ballot initiatives that are designed to allow the public to have their voices...
Sexual Assault Accusations Against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Garth Brooks Rattles Music Industry In the past several weeks there have been a new rash of criminal charges and accusations of sexual assault against icons in the music industry, including federal charges...
As we have previously covered, the passing and implementation of the SAFE-T Act, which eliminated cash bail in Illinois, was a hotly debated/litigated issue that saw both sides forecasting the best/worst outcomes with the dramatic change in how pretrial release is...
