First Circuit Holds Government Breached Plea Agreement by Implicitly Arguing for Upward Variant Sentence by Including Pictures and Video of Defendant That Allegedly Depict His Criminal Tendencies in Sentencing Memo by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that the Government implicitly …

Policing Prostitution in New York by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Undercover operations to combat street prostitution are standard fare in pop-culture depictions of big-city police work, but the reality is often seedier than television dramatizations. A 2020 investigation by journalists at ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, revealed that New …