Attorneys General Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Microsoft Case

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 2 -- Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge issued the following news release: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has joined a large bipartisan coalition in submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to decide whether email service providers can shield evidence of a crime from law enforcement by storing data outside Here you can find useful examples and description about searching the news archive. Read it carefully to get the best results.

North Carolina Loves Creating New Crimes, And 2016 Proved It

North Carolina legislated nearly three times more new crimes in 2016 than in any of the six previous years, according to to a study released Tuesday by the Manhattan Institute . The Institute studied over-criminalization in North Carolina between 2015 and 2016, finding that the state created 83 new crimes in 2016, compared to just 31 in 2015 and an average of 34 between 2009 and 2014.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Had To Tell Department Not To Stage Crimes

The commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department felt compelled to order officers not to stage or "recreate" footage taken by their body cameras Tuesday, due to two recent alleged incidents of agents orchestrating crime scenes. Kevin Davis, the lead law enforcement official at the BPD, urgently advised his crew through a memorandum, which was first reported by Kevin Rector of The Baltimore Sun.

Sessions: US prosecutors will help addiction-ravaged cities

The Justice Department will dispatch 12 federal prosecutors to cities ravaged by addiction who will focus exclusively on investigating health care fraud and opioid scams that are fueling the nation's drug abuse epidemic, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday. He unveiled the pilot program during a speech in hard-hit Ohio, where eight people a day die of accidental overdoses.

TKG Has Scheduled a Live Webcast on White Collar Crime Law and the Criminal Justice

Aug. 1, 2017 - PRLog -- TKG /The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, announced today that it has scheduled a live webcast entitled: White Collar Crime Law and the Criminal Justice Reform Under the New Administration: Trends, Developments and Updates LIVE Webcast. This event is scheduled on August 30, 2017 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET.

Mystery at Sea: Hearing on Nathan Carman’s insurance claim set for Aug. 7

Attorneys for the companies that insured Nathan Carman's Chicken Pox are asking a federal court in Rhode Island to leave open the possibility of questioning Carman during deposition about "his grandfather's unsolved homicide ..." "[F]urther defenses ... may become apparent later in discovery ... and [plaintiffs] anticipate that Nathan Carman's 'criminal wrongdoing' ... and 'illegality' ... will similarly bar his insurance claim," states the Plaintiff's Rule 16 Statement filed on July 31. Carman, of Vernon, spent seven days in a four-person, inflatable life raft after his fishing boat sank in September 2016. He was rescued by a freighter and brought to safety by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio convicted of criminal contempt

Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff whose extreme stance on illegal immigration made him a household name, was convicted Monday of criminal contempt of court for ignoring a judge's order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton wrote that Arpaio had shown a "flagrant disregard" for the court's command and that his attempt to pin the conduct on those who worked for him rang hollow.

California father accused of killing 5-year-old due in court

Longtime critics of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio say his conviction of a criminal charge for disobeying a court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants is a long-awaited comeuppance. Longtime critics of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio say his conviction of a criminal charge for disobeying a court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants is a long-awaited comeuppance.

PEOPLE v. NAVARRA

Audrey R. Chavez, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Louis M. Vasquez, Lewis A. Martinez, Tia Coronado and William K. Kim, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

PEOPLE v. FLORES

Lance Salisbury, for appellant. James P. Maxwell, for respondent. Upstate Drone Action; Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, et al.; Daniel Finlay, et al.; New York Civil Liberties Union; Vera House, Inc., amici curiae.

De Blasio, Mark-Viverito Reach Deal on Legal Services Funding for Immigrants

Following a tense standoff between Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito over whether undocumented immigrants convicted of serious crimes should receive taxpayer-funded legal services, the pair announced Monday that private donors would provide funding for those services instead. In June, Mark-Viverito inserted language into the city budget mandating that the $26 million plan to offer legal services to undocumented immigrants facing deportation include individuals convicted of one of 170 crimes that the city exempts from its "sanctuary city" protections.

Anti-Immigrant Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Convicted of Criminal Contempt of Court

Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a strong ally of Donald Trump, has been found guilty of criminal contempt of court for defying an order that he stop his department's infamous roundups of people he suspected to be undocumented immigrants. Arpaio was sheriff of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and is the state's most populous county, from 1993 until 2016.

We Cana t Live in Fear of Our Own Intelligence Community

U.S. intelligence agencies are telling us not to worry about the FISA Amendments Act, a 2008 law that allows the NSA to tap into the communications of "non-U.S. persons" who are outside the U.S., even though this law sidesteps the Fourth Amendment as it allows the NSA to record the emails and phone calls of U.S. citizens who happen to be communicating with people overseas. How many American citizens is the government listening in on? We don't know, as the intelligence agencies told Congress they can't say just how many American citizens they've eavesdropped on .

Child advocates urge back-seat alarms as 2 die in Arizona

A proposed law that would require carmakers to build alarms for back seats is being pushed by child advocates who say it will prevent kids from dying in hot cars. The law also would streamline the criminal process against caregivers who cause the deaths - cases that can be inconsistent but often heavier-handed against mothers.

US President Donald Trump doesn’t bother to disguise his thuggish instincts

OPINION: US President Donald Trump, speaking on Friday on Long Island, told a gathering of police officers: "I said, please, don't be too nice - like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head ... I said you can take the hand away, OK?" That's not a trash-talking guy with a Confederate battle flag. That's the head of the executive branch , who has sworn to uphold the Constitution.

Top Lawyer For Civil Rights At Justice Department Leaving After Roughly 6 Months

Thomas Wheeler, who has been leading the Justice Department's civil rights unit, informed staffers there Thursday that he would be leaving the post, according to two sources familiar with the communication. The job put Wheeler, an Indiana lawyer who's personally and professionally close to Vice President Mike Pence, in the middle of a number of controversies, including the Trump administration's turnaround on guidance regarding transgender students, the decisions to close investigations of police officers without criminal charges and shifting legal positions on voting rights and other cases.