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Women, queer people and POC are over-criminalised in the US

In Pink Crime, Valena Beety examines how prejudices around gender, sexuality, race and reproductive politics in the US justice system lead to the over-criminalisation and wrongful...

Criminal – Circuit court erred when it held statute was facially unconstitutional

Where the circuit court declined to address the defendant’s First Amendment overbreadth challenge to a criminal statute, and did not rule on whether the statute was unconstitutiona...

Lawful Permanent Residents With Criminal Issues May Face Increased Scrutiny

Criminal – Government can’t sandbag defendant during sentencing

Where the government initially argued the defendant’s four prior convictions qualified him for an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act, which requires three predic...

Is AI The Fix For Policy Sludge and Zombie Laws?

How many federal criminal laws and regulations are there? Nobody knows. It’s not for lack of trying. It’s because nobody in government has the time needed to go through more than t...

A New Way to Think About Crime

Have you ever done something illegal? Probably. Do you have a criminal record? Probably not. All criminals are lawbreakers, but only some lawbreakers become criminals. Why is that?

Criminal – Court denies en banc review in facial challenge to criminal statute

Although the court denied the petition for rehearing en banc, several judges would have granted the petition, with Judge Gregory explaining that the question raised First Amendment...

In 39 States, People Can Be Sentenced to Life for Murders They Did Not Commit

The Sentencing Project highlights the perverse consequences of the felony murder rule, a vestige of British law that still prevails in federal courts and all but two states.

Washington judges flagged criminal law defects last year that remain unresolved

(The Center Square) - Months before the 2026 legislative session, superior court judges outlined three “defects and omissions” in Washington criminal law‚ none of which were addres...