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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.
Asha VenkataswamyUnder 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.
Asha VenkataswamyThe 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.
Asha VenkataswamyFewer than one in a hundred petitions survives; here is how certiorari works, who screens the papers, and what a grant means for the criminal docket now taking shape for October Term 2026.
Asha VenkataswamyAnnounced March 10, 2026, the policy consolidates how every DOJ component treats corporate crime cases — from voluntary self-disclosure to deferred prosecution and guilty pleas.
Asha VenkataswamyProposed amendments published in January — covering career offender guidelines, human smuggling penalties, and sentencing options — closed a public comment period in March and a cycle that can rewrite federal sentences without Congress.
Asha VenkataswamyThe Justice Department's statistical agency released early 2024 jail figures in December 2025, with 7.9 million annual admissions — and final tables still to come.
Asha VenkataswamyIn State v. Tolbert, the Eighth District Court of Appeals reversed a suppression ruling and sent the case back after police did not tell the issuing judge that an algorithm, not a witness, supplied the suspect identification.
Asha VenkataswamyFrom California's roughly 800 new statutes to Illinois's removal of a prosecution time limit for involuntary servitude offenses, the new year reset the rulebook in courthouses across the country.
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