Former-Chief of Staff for Former-House Speaker Madigan Found Guilty of Obstruction and Perjury A federal jury only needed 5 hours to find longtime ex-Chief of Staff to Michael Madigan, Tim Mapes eguilty of obstruction of justice and perjury charges stemming from...
Federal Charges Continue to Show That No One Is Above the Law Two former Chicago Police Department (CPD) Officers were charged federally for fraudulently obtaining over $2 million in money earmarked for COVID-19 relief programs. Last month, Torrey Price retired from...
Department of Justice Awards $6 Billion in Contracts to Private Companies to Assist in Civil Asset Forfeitures A nonprofit law firm, the Institute for Justice’s National Initiative to End Forfeiture, recently raised the alarm after the Department of Justice announced...
Illinois is the First State to Eliminate Cash Bail The Illinois Supreme Court ruled this week that the elimination of a judge’s ability to impose cash bail on defendants facing criminal charges is constitutional, lifting an injunction on the provisions that were to...
Federal Judge Rejects SEC Case, Rules Cryptocurrency Token Not a Security In an update to our earlier coverage over the ongoing efforts of the SEC to regulate aspects of the cryptocurrency market, a Southern District of New York judge recently ruled that a token...
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...
DOJ Arrests Chinese Nationals for Fentanyl Distribution Two weeks ago the Department of Justice announced that they indicted eight Chinese nationals and filed criminal charges against four Chinese chemical manufacturing companies for alleged fentanyl manufacturing and...
Court Rules a Defendant’s Passcodes Are Not Protected Recently the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a defendant’s Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination do not apply to cell phone passcodes and courts can order a defendant to provide the passcode to...
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....
