A court reporter takes down courtroom testimony word for word and turns it into the certified transcript that appeals rely on. Federal law requires verbatim recording of court proceedings, by stenograph, stenomask, or electronic sound recording.
The FBI's 2023 crime statistics show violent crime down about 3 percent from 2022, with murder down sharply — but the numbers depend on how many agencies actually reported.
Under the Bail Reform Act, release is the default and detention is what the government must argue for — here is the sequence, the burdens of proof, and what the federal data show about who is held.
The Office of the Pardon Attorney's published lists record pardons and commutations granted through 2026 alongside a much larger volume of denied applications — and the paperwork defines what each act actually does.