Legislation Expands Qualifications for Deferred Prosecution for First Time Gun Offenders Illinois recently passed into law an expansion of who can qualify for the second chance probation program with bipartisan support. Under the previous law, enacted as a pilot...
Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amended for Zero Criminal History Point Offenders Defendants With No Criminal History to Receive Reduction in Guideline Level Calculation The United States Sentencing Commission recently met and made changes to the federal sentencing...
Inmates with Serious Medical Needs Remain Imprisoned at High Levels in Illinois 2022 Reform Has Limited Impact on Aging Population in Illinois Prisons In 2022 Governor Pritzker signed the Joe Coleman Medical Release Act, which was a bill designed to allow the Prisoner...
Individuals Seeking Expungement in Illinois Face Roadblocks In Illinois, there is a legal process that allows individuals that have been accused/convicted of certain crimes to have their records formally sealed or expunged from their criminal record, depending on the...
District Court Dismisses Indictment in Potentially Landmark Ruling A federal district court judge, the Honorable Carlton Reeves, in the Southern District of Mississippi dismissed an indictment against a man charged with being a felon in possession of a gun in...
Wisconsin Court Rules Marijuana Scent Alone Warrants Police Search Recently the Wisconsin Supreme Court narrowly ruled that police officers were justified in conducting a search of a vehicle based on the purported smell of marijuana, overturning a lower courts ruling....
Social media helps us connect with loved ones and friends; it can even play a role in our professional lives. There are certain things we share online that we expect will remain within our friend groups — but is this expectation reasonable? This is a question that...
Although most of the panic around the COVI-19 pandemic has subsided, some issues continue to linger. One remaining effect of the pandemic has been the ongoing targeting and prosecution of fraud stemming from federal relief programs for American businesses. If you were...
The law is changing all the time. It is no small task keeping up with the changes that occur in every area of law from one year to the next. Illinois lawmakers have drafted nearly 300 new laws and changes to existing legislation, according to NBC Chicago online. These...
Purchasing weapons for people who are not authorized to own them can have dangerous consequences. Currently, a Chicago woman faces charges related to purchasing guns for people not permitted to have them, and prosecutions are happening at the federal level all over...
