RICO cases, protest prosecutions, appeals and landmark rulings.
Justices Sotomayor and Gorsuch questioned Chicago’s practice of selling cars over unpaid parking tickets. The court also turned away two SWAT property-damage cases.
Lexington, Mississippi, agreed to stop jailing people for unpaid fines without checking whether they can pay, two years after a federal investigation.
Victims’ families may watch in person. The Dec. 3 execution at Fort Hood is still on.
Trump told the attorney general to seek execution for people who kill police officers. Most of those cases are state cases, and a 1977 ruling bars automatic death sentences.
The city’s ordinance carries a fine of up to $999 and 300 days in jail. Similar bans in six other big cities have mostly been blocked.
The 10-year veteran had just finished SWAT training. A 35-year-old city water department worker faces a preliminary hearing Oct. 26.
Trump has called off the livestream, but the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan is still set for Dec. 3. What’s known, and what could still delay it.
Domestic terrorism counts, a sweeping RICO indictment and a dismissal on appeal. How Georgia prosecuted protesters, and what the cases reveal about the legal limits of dissent.
Why prosecutors turned to a racketeering statute against protesters, what the indictment alleged, and why civil liberties groups called it an overreach.
Georgia charged 61 people under its racketeering law over opposition to the Atlanta training center. A Fulton County judge later dismissed the charges, and the state appealed.