A California appeals court rejected a defendant’s claim that a report by generated an automatic license plate reader database violated his Fourth Amendment rights. The court ruled that any error in admitting the report was harmless because other evidence proved the defendant switched license plates after shooting at another vehicle.
Read moreReinstating charges against a former prosecutor said to have withheld evidence in the probe of a police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man, a New York appeals court on Thursday upheld a new policy adopted in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.
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The daughter of a man executed 13 years ago for murder does not have legal standing to seek DNA testing of evidence in the case, a Memphis judge ruled Monday, but the judge said the ruling was based on jurisdiction, not on the merits of the claims.
Read moreA federal court in Illinois refused to dismiss a civil rights suit brought by parents who claim that two towns and others concealed evidence that their daughter was killed by her police officer boyfriend. The parents, who claim the defendants covered up the death as a suicide, have offered evidence that the town of Crest Hill has a practice of “concealing and condoning officer misconduct.”
Read moreA federal judge in Washington cleared the path Friday for House Democrats to regain momentum lost after the close of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year probe, green-lighting the release of secret material from the investigation’s grand jury.
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The suspect in a torture killing in Alaska’s biggest city ended up leading police right to him, first by losing a digital memory card labeled “Homicide at midtown Marriott” that contained video of the dying woman.
Read moreThe Justice Department urged a federal judge Tuesday not to look to the history books in deciding whether to hand over secret material from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation to the House Judiciary Committee, saying the court in 1974 was wrong to release grand jury evidence during Watergate.
Read moreConvicted of murdering his girlfriend, Horace Roberts spent 20 years in prison before being exonerated thanks in part to his own DNA testing of evidence found at the crime scene. On Tuesday, the 61-year-old sued the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department claiming it manufactured the case against him and withheld key evidence that implicated the real murderers.
Read moreProsecutors portrayed a white fired Dallas cop charged with murder as callous and uncaring Tuesday as they played body camera footage of her typing on her phone while first responders frantically tried to save the unarmed black man that she had just shot after mistaking his apartment for her own.
Read moreA federal judge who last year warned Michael Flynn he may face prison time in the investigation over Russian interference in the 2016 election has penciled in Dec. 18 to sentence the former national security adviser.
Read moreWith a major trial to test prescription opioid manufacturers’ liability set to begin next month, a federal judge refused Monday to throw out the public nuisance claims of two Ohio counties impacted by the national crisis.
Read moreA federal judge in Ohio rejected local governments’ pre-trial request to hold opioid manufacturers and distributors liable for failing to report suspicious pharmacy orders to the Drug Enforcement Agency, finding Monday that the drugmakers presented plenty of evidence justifying their conduct.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that former state prosecutor Robert J. Healy fabricated evidence against Ledura Watkins, whose life sentence on a first-degree murder conviction was vacated in 2017 after he served 41 years.
Read moreA federal judge denied New York police officers a retrial of the excessive-force lawsuit they lost after arresting a doctor over a parking ticket, because they fabricated evidence; the doctor may accept $200,000 in damages or ask for a retrial on damages only.
Read moreRevealing film tastes befitting an accused sex trafficker, the Second Circuit offered a nauseating look Friday at Jeffrey Epstein’s Amazon purchases in a huge tranche of unsealed documents.
Read moreFinding no Bivens cause of action for fabrication of evidence, the Fifth Circuit affirmed dismissal of civil rights claims against Texas police and FBI agents from a man who spent two years in jail awaiting trial on drug charges, of which a jury cleared him.
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Georgia election officials repeatedly and intentionally destroyed evidence that could show unauthorized access to state election infrastructure and potential manipulation of election results, according to a federal court filing.
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With the fate of North Carolina’s voting districts on the line, objections to evidence from a deceased mapmaker’s files dominated the third day of a trial on claims of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering by Republican lawmakers.
Read moreLocked in a safe inside his $77 million Upper East Side townhouse, wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kept a long-expired Austrian passport bearing his picture and not his name.
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