NEW YORK (AP) — Scores of defense attorneys in New York City and elsewhere protested the criminal justice system’s handling of police killings of unarmed black men by participating in marches and die-ins Wednesday. In Brooklyn, public defenders and other ...

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Vaguely written federal laws and mandatory minimums have shifted the balance of power at the federal level to prosecutors, according to a leader of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Steven D. Benjamin, the association’s immediate past president, recently ...

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WASHINGTON — Criminal defense attorneys are expressing concerns about a recent decision from the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a vehicle search based on an anonymous 911 call was constitutional. The ruling in Prado Navarette v. California, No. 12-9490, weakens ...

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ALBANY — New York’s top court on Thursday rejected some malpractice damage claims against defense lawyers by the people they represent unsuccessfully, concluding that allowing them could have “devastating consequences” for the criminal justice system. The Court of Appeals unanimously ...

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When it comes to informing clients of the possible consequences of a criminal conviction, what obligations do defense lawyers have outside the realm of the strictly criminal? That is one of the questions raised by a decision the U.S. Supreme Court handed down last year.

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