In United States v. Girard, the Third Circuit held that permitting spectators to observe the opening day of trial only by audiovisual...

The Supreme Court decided in 2019 that a court should defer to an agency’s interpretation of its own regulation only where the regulation...

Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and chief executive of the former cryptocurrency exchange FTX, raised a number of issues in his appeal...

In United States v. Maldonado, the First Circuit held that a defendant’s unconditional guilty plea waived any Fifth Amendment challenge...

In Abouammo v. United States, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a defendant charged with violating 18 U.S.C. § 1519, the...

Even where the government explicitly waived any request for restitution in an initial sentencing phase, it is permitted to seek...

Victims of crime have the right under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act to confer with the government and to be treated with fairness, but...

In United States v. Pérez-Otero, the First Circuit affirmed bribery convictions of the former mayor of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, rejecting...

The Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of an impartial jury is settled doctrine, but the procedural mechanics, such as when bias must be raised,...

In United States v. Tew, the Tenth Circuit held that a warrant for a defendant’s Apple iCloud account was insufficiently particularized...

Following shortly after the Fourth Circuit’s decision in United States v. McDonald, the Ninth Circuit in United States v. Motley also...

In United States v.  Ritter, the Fourth Circuit confronted whether a defendant’s lie to state investigators had the requisite federal...