The pretrial discovery changes, approved as part of the state budget in April 2019, mandated that prosecutors hand over evidence to a defendant or their attorney within 15 days of an arraignment.

New Cook County state's attorney announces change to detention policy under SAFE-T Act O'Neill Burke announced that prosecutors must now seek pre-trial detention for anyone accused of certain ...

Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., were ordered on Monday to pursue every firearms case referred to them and to seek pretrial detention against every person charged with such an offense ...