A Florida state prisoner who was sentenced to 25 years in prison on sexual battery, child pornography, and firearm charges failed to convince the Eleventh Circuit to grant his habeas petition on the basis that he was coerced into signing a plea agreement due to ineffective counsel.

A California dispensary can pursue recovery of more than 2,000 marijuana plants confiscated in a 2015 raid, because regardless of county land use ordinances, the plants themselves weren’t illegal under state law, a state appeals court said Wednesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a lower court order that required specific steps to curb Covid-19 at four southern California jail facilities that have seen more than 400 cases since the outbreak began.

A Michigan court’s denial of habeas corpus petitions filed over a judge’s visit to a crime scene wasn’t a contrary or unreasonable application of Supreme Court precedent, the Sixth Circuit said Wednesday in affirming a lower court’s ruling.

A defendant facing a felon-in-possession of a firearm charge wasn’t entitled to have the jury given an instruction explaining he was using the gun to ward off attackers, the Fifth Circuit said Wednesday.

A bail hearing by Zoom for the 17-year-old accused of hacking some of the world’s highest-profile Twitter accounts last month offered some surprises when a lawyer revealed that the teenager was already under investigation last year -- and then the session was interrupted by participants showing porn.