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Freedom & Ethics
CAN WE JUST CALL THEM DAs?: Vermont’s State’s Attorney Problem
By Ed Adrian
Vermont has fourteen counties and fourteen State’s Attorneys. None of them is the State’s Attorney for the entire State. That would be too easy. The official with statewide criminal authority…
Marler Blog
A Senator Finally Asks the Question I’ve Been Asking: Where Did the Abbott Criminal Case Go?
By Bill Marler
For two weeks I have been writing that the Justice Department quietly walked away from a criminal case against Abbott Laboratories over the Cronobacter contamination at its Sturgis, Michigan infant-formula plant —…
Legal History Blog
Bray and Bamzai on the Origins of Criminal Contempt
By Dan Ernst
Samuel L. Bray, University of Chicago Law School, and Aditya Bamzai, University of Virginia School of Law, have posted Prosecuting Contempt:Under Supreme Court precedent and the Federal Rules of Criminal…
Law Web
Supreme Court: Whether failure to prove motive in the case based on circumstantial evidence is fatal to prosecution case?
By Law Web
It is trite law in the cases of circumstantial evidence when the chain of circumstances have been adequately proved to link to the culpability of the Accused, motive is irrelevant…
Missouri Lawyers Media
DOJ sees fallout after push to prosecute former FBI director James Comey
Listen to this article Summary More than six prosecutors demoted or pushed out in Eastern District of Virginia First indictment of Comey dismissed due to unlawful appointment of U.S. attorney…
Legal Bites
Download U.P. Assistant Prosecution Officer Prelims Examination 2026 Solved Paper PDF
Get access to the U.P. Assistant Prosecution Officer (APO) Prelims Examination 2026 Solved Paper on Legal Bites. Working through this paper allows aspirants to simulate real exam conditions, improve accuracy,…
FCPA Professor
One Year Ago … A Look Back At The DOJ’s Flawed Prosecution Of Former Cognizant Executives Coburn And Schwartz
By Mike Koehler
A year ago this week, the DOJ moved to dismiss its long-standing criminal indictment charging former Cognizant executives Gordon Coburn and Steven Schwartz with FCPA and related offenses. Shortly thereafter,…
FCPA Professor
Smartmatic: “The Constitution Protects Defendants … From Having To Defend Against Such Opaque Charges”
By Mike Koehler
In October 2025, Smartmatic was criminally charged with conspiracy to violate the FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions, money laundering conspiracy, and money laundering in connection with an alleged bribery scheme involving the…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Davis Polk Discusses DOJ Self-Disclosure Policy for Criminal Cases
By Daniel S. Kahn, Greg D. Andres, Martine M. Beamon, Paul J. Nathanson, Tatiana R. Martins
On March 10, 2026, the Department of Justice announced its first ever Department-wide corporate enforcement policy for all criminal cases. Under the new policy, companies that self-report misconduct could be…
Simple Justice
Where Have All The Lawyers Gone?
Career prosecutors are fleeing the offices of the United States Attorneys and Department of Justice. The MAGA faithful call them “Biden prosecutors,” but they were there long before Biden, including…