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"Judge Reinhart acted unethically in approving the warrant to search President Trump’s residence."

The governing boards of both school districts serving Ahwatukee will each have at least one new member after the Nov. 8 General Election, according to the ballot petitions that made

Student members of the pro bono project have facilitated the early release of five North Carolina men in the past two years.

The number of inmates held at Michigans prison for women has dropped by a third since 2016, the director of the Corrections Department said Tuesday.

Two adults face charges in the Dec. 30, 2020, shooting deaths of Kevin and Dylan Stamper; the first homicides in South Lyon in about 15 years.

Education: B.C.L., University College Cork; LL.M., University of Cambridge Since 2014, University of Minnesota Law School professor JaneAnne Murray and her students, through the school’s Clemency Project, have helped win early release for 32 low-level, nonviolent inmates serving disproportionately long sentences. Murray, who founded the project at the university, served on the steering committee of Clemency Project 2014, a collaboration of defense organizations that recruited and trained lawy...

Washington high court charts less punitive path on juvenile justice With the Monschke decision, the state Supreme Court expanded the definition of youth in murder cases. No other court has done so. by Washington State’s Supreme Court Building, also known as the Temple of Justice, photographed on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, from Heritage Park in Olympia, Wash. (Jovelle Tamayo for Crosscut) Liberal marijuana laws, an early endorsement for same-sex marriage and our general embrace of individual i...

New legal clinic concentrates on cases of women languishing in the system for crimes against alleged abusers Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune © Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS Attorney Rachel White-Domain, director of the Women and Survivors Project, on March 15, 2021, in Chicago. It is not disputed that in June 2007 Tewkunzi Green fatally stabbed her boyfriend. Green testified to as much at her trial, but also telling a Peoria jury that she was pinned agai...

Columnist William Newman: Trump’s unpardonable abuse of the pardon power In this Dec. 12, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. AP Published: 1/1/2021 9:41:45 AM I believe I know something about pardons and commutations. My co-counsel, Buz Eisenberg of Ashfield, and I asked a president for a number of them. Details below. The Constitution says, “The president ... shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses agains...

A Michigan woman who says she conspired to have her husband killed to protect herself and her 7-year-old daughter from abuse is asking for clemency, her only chance at freedom from a life sentence in prison.  LuAnne Szenay says she endured violence at the hands of her husband for 12 years. In 1990, she hired two men to kill Timothy Szenay, believing that his death would be her only way out after police repeatedly dismissed her complaints of domestic abuse.  She now recognizes her thinking was...