Bail is not a fine or a punishment — it's a court's mechanism for balancing a defendant's presumed innocence against the risk of flight, built on a federal framework and a patchwork of state processes.
Aleksandr Komarov
Federal securities law gives people with inside knowledge of fraud a path to report it directly to regulators and, if the case pays off, a share of the money collected.
Aleksandr KomarovA federal court primer on the initial hearing, the factors a judge weighs, and what happens to a defendant who cannot pay.
Aarya KapoorA 2011 double-blind test of more than 169 examiners put numbers on a method courts had relied on for a century — and the numbers cut both ways.
Malik JohnsonWhat changed, what the primary record says, and what remains uncertain.