A retired police officer in Massachusetts failed Friday to convince the First Circuit that he had a federal claim that could revive his lawsuit brought over the denial of an identification card that would have allowed him to carry a concealed firearm across state lines.
The mastermind behind a scheme to kidnap drug dealers and hold them for ransom had his convictions upheld, over a raft of objections, by the First Circuit Friday.
The defendant in a narcotics case was wrongly denied a copy of his presentence investigation report, but isn’t entitled to a new trial because this denial was harmless error, the Seventh Circuit ruled.
A Wisconsin prisoner who was stabbed by his cellmate has valid civil rights claims against the corrections officers who repeatedly ignored his warnings, the Seventh Circuit ruled Friday, criticizing the judge who previously threw out the lawsuit.
A convicted felon who was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment for being in possession of a firearm can have his sentence reduced, because the judge who heard his case wrongly determined that the firearm’s serial number had been altered, a split Sixth Circuit panel ruled Friday.
The co-owners of a California-based solar company pleaded guilty in connection with an alleged $1 billion Ponzi scheme whose victims include