Law enforcement seized Robert Reeves' Chevrolet Camaro without charging him with a crime. After he filed a class-action lawsuit, that changed.
The White House may be setting us up for a new wave of police abuses—and necessary calls for reform.
The case against Michelino Sunseri exemplifies the injustice caused by the proliferation of regulatory crimes—the target of a recent presidential order.
John Moore and Tanner Mansell were convicted of theft after they freed sharks they erroneously thought had been caught illegally.
Trump rightly decries the "absurd and unjust" consequences of proliferating regulatory crimes.
Martin is a bully and a menace to free speech. Unfortunately for him, his own free speech caught up with him.
A Mississippi mom was charged with a felony years after she gave birth for drug use early in her pregnancy.
Even if Laredo cops punished Priscilla Villarreal for constitutionally protected speech, the appeals court says, they would be protected by qualified immunity.
Trump's appointees are wielding federal power in a manner that appears every bit as corrupt as what he complained about on the campaign trail.
That's the powerful argument that Mayor Adams's lawyers are making, citing (among other grounds) the leaking of a resignation letter containing "the wildly inflammatory and false accusation that Mayor Adams and his counsel had, in essence, offered a quid to the Department of Justice in exchange for the quo of dismissal."
New Mexico State Police Sgt. Toby LaFave, "the face of DWI enforcement," has been implicated in a corruption scandal that goes back decades and involves "many officers."
A driver who was acquitted of drunk driving joins a class action lawsuit provoked by a bribery scheme that went undetected for decades.
In the latest guilty plea, a local defense attorney says he had been bribing cops to make DWI cases disappear "since at least the late 1990s."
For a decade and a half, officers made DWI cases go away in exchange for bribes, relying on protection from senior officers implicated in the same racket.
Federal prosecutors say the city's police department was the main focus of a 15-year bribery scheme that also involved the sheriff's office and the state police.
Local news reports detail how Polk County, Minnesota, charges drivers and petty offenders with drug-free zone violations like no other county in the state.
"I can tell you that I have never been put in a position of doubting my own sanity like I was in the hands of those police officers," Knox tells Reason.
The president drew no distinction between people who merely entered the building and people who vandalized it or assaulted police officers.
His last-minute acts of clemency invite Trump and future presidents to shield their underlings from the consequences of committing crimes in office.
In the first volume of his final report, Special Counsel Jack Smith laid out a damning case against the former and future president.
Aside from a felony record that may yet be erased on appeal, the president-elect will face no punishment for trying to conceal his hush payment to Stormy Daniels.
Federal prosecutors argued that John Moore and Tanner Mansell stole property when they hauled in a fishing line they mistakenly believed had been set by poachers.
The president-elect makes valid points in highlighting potential abuses of prosecutorial power.
Brandy Moore, who stopped using meth midway through her pregnancy, was charged with "aggravated domestic violence" because she decided not to have an abortion.
Trump's pick to run the FBI has a long list of enemies he plans to "come after," with the legal details to be determined later.
The draconian penalties that Hunter Biden escaped affect many people whose fathers cannot save them.
A class action lawsuit claims Indianapolis law enforcement is using civil asset forfeiture to seize millions in cash from packages routed through a major FedEx hub, without notifying the owners of what crime they're suspected of committing.
Joe Biden says his son did not deserve prison for violating firearm laws that the president vigorously defends and has made more severe.
The attorney general nominee's record as a drug warrior epitomizes the predictably perverse consequences of prohibition.
In response to charges that he illegally interfered with the 2020 election and improperly retained presidential records, Trump insisted that he was entitled to do whatever he wanted based on preposterous claims.
A board employee and a local reporter were arrested on the same bogus charge of divulging nonexistent grand jury secrets.
In bodycam footage, the police major—now the deputy chief—asks for "anything we can get" after being told felony charges would be difficult.
Coercing defendants into plea deals is poor training for convincing people to vote for you.
The vice presidential hopeful displayed his dishonesty on Joe Rogan's podcast last week.
Americans' ignorant or capricious views on crime rates may seem inconsequential, but they have very real effects in setting prosecutorial policy.
The charges, which could send Colin Gray to prison for the rest of his life, are part of a broader attempt to criminalize parental failures.
The film ties together years of reporting on a legal saga with broad implications for both free speech and sex work.
Similar scandals across the country suggest the problem is widespread.
Absolute immunity protects prosecutors even when they commit serious misconduct on the job.
The three defendants remain under indictment for racketeering, along with 58 others.
Three people have pled guilty and two will go to trial over the actor's death.
But for a disastrous raid, narcotics officer Gerald Goines would have been free to continue framing people he thought were guilty.
Former narcotics officer Gerald Goines faces two murder charges for instigating the home invasion that killed Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas.
The case is another example of stretching criminal laws to hold parents accountable for their children's violence.
In charging the former president with illegal election interference, Special Counsel Jack Smith emphasizes the defendant's personal motivation and private means.
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