Federal Prosecutors Turn Over Brady Evidence Concerning Key Witness The defense team representing indicted New York Mayor Eric Adams conveyed their belief to the media that the case against the embattled Mayor is weak after they recently received Brady evidence from...
Uncertainty Remains Around Prisoners Safety in the Face of Hurricanes With Hurricane Milton approaching (and now passed), several county jails and prisons in the evacuation zone in Florida announced that they would not evacuate inmates before the storm made landfall,...
Extensive Chicago Police Surveillance System Falls Short of Expectations The city of Chicago has one of the largest and most sophisticated surveillance networks in the United States, at great expense to the city’s taxpayers, but a recent investigation found that in...
New York State Lawsuit Against Manufacturers Reviewed by Second Circuit Manufacturers of parts and kits that are used to assemble so called “ghost guns” asked the Second Circuit to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General over their ability to sell...
FBI Raids Miami Mansion Linked to $230 Million Crypto Theft Earlier this week, the FBI raided a waterfront mansion in Miami and arrested one of two individuals in connection with a $230 million cryptocurrency scam. Malone Lam, 20, was arrested in Miami while his...
Illinois Supreme Court Rules That the Smell of Burnt Cannabis Does Not Justify a Warrantless Police Search of an Automobile In People v. Stout, a 1985 Illinois Supreme Court opinion, the Court held that law enforcement was permitted to search a vehicle without a...
Pilot Program Encourages Self-Disclosure of Non-Violent Criminal Conduct Has self-snitching become normalized? The government seems to think so and is encouraging it. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois recently announced a new,...
Texas Set to Execute Man Based on Disproven “Shaken Baby Syndrome” Theory Next month, Robert Roberson is scheduled to be executed in Texas based on his conviction for killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2002 after medical experts testified at his trial that the...
Appellate Court Decision Provides Pathway for High Court Review We have previously covered that the United States Supreme Court has consistently declined to intervene and hear the current challenge to the Illinois state law that bans AR-15s which was passed in wake of...
FDA Gives Early-Stage Approval for Psychedelic Used to Treat Mental Health Issues Psychedelics are enjoying a surge of interest from pharmaceutical companies looking to explore their potential for treatment of several mental health issues, from addiction to PTSD....
