Judges Generally Let Prosecutors Drop Charges. Maybe Not for Adams.
Judge Dale E. Ho will weigh the request after the resignation of Manhattan’s U.S. attorney and her accusations of misconduct.
Under Pressure to Drop Charges, Career Prosecutors Weighed Stark Options
Lawyers in the Justice Department’s public integrity section came to believe that to save their jobs, one of them would have ...
US Judge Says Lethal Injection Doesn't Violate Rights of Condemned Man, Avoids Firing Squad Question
Nance appealed and a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit concluded that since lethal injection is the ...
Drama over Adams case raises questions about Trump administration’s ‘weaponization’ of justice
The drama — which recalls the Saturday Night Massacre of Watergate fame — represents the most high-profile effort yet by ...
How cases could be expunged under New Mexico attorney at center of DWI scandal
"People who lose throughout the crooked enterprise are the people of New Mexico,' John Day said. 'The taxpayers, the citizens ...
What is presidential clemency?
U.S. presidents have the constitutional power to exercise leniency toward people who have committed federal crimes through ...
Opinion
Trump's 'lawfare' attack on the courts could backfire on the Constitution
President Donald Trump loves to take a phrase and drain it of all meaning. In his first term, he transformed the term "fake news" from describing a specific problem with a type of misinformation into ...
Biden clemencies free more North Texans serving long meth sentences
Roughly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders nationwide received a grant of executive clemency in January, including 10 people in ...