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Criminal Practice
Criminal Practice Law360 provides timely news and analysis on criminal law and enforcement across U.S. jurisdictions. Coverage includes major prosecutions, sentencing trends, constitutional challenges, legislative developments, and key rulings impacting prosecutors, defense attorneys, and the courts.
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Latest News in Criminal Practice
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November 07, 2025
Can States Prosecute ICE Agents? It Depends
Video showed a masked federal agent walking out of the gates of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Durango, Colorado. He stepped around a small line of protesters seated on the street and lumbered past a petite, gray-haired woman as she recorded him on her smartphone last month.
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November 07, 2025
11th Circ. Nixes 15-Year Sentence Over Fla. Cocaine Definition
The Eleventh Circuit has vacated a 15-year sentence for a Florida man convicted of being a felon in possession of a weapon after finding that, because the state's statutory definition of 'cocaine' was too broad, the man's drug offenses couldn't be used to enhance his sentence.
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November 07, 2025
Insurer Escapes Gas Station Row Over Shooting By Employee
A gas company's insurer owed no coverage for a suit brought by a customer who was attacked and shot by an employee, an Indiana federal court ruled, saying the suit was not an occurrence under the policy.
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November 07, 2025
Ex-CFO Convicted Of Bilking Startup To Fund Fintech Co.
A Seattle federal jury convicted a software startup's former executive of wire fraud on Friday, after prosecutors accused him of siphoning $35 million in company funds into his personal fintech project and then losing the money in a cryptocurrency collapse weeks later.
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November 07, 2025
Acting NJ Law Division Director Gets Permanent Post
The current acting director of the Division of Law in the New Jersey Office of Attorney General took over the role in a permanent capacity Friday, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced.
Areas of Coverage
- Influential appellate decisions in state supreme and federal circuit courts鈥攅specially those guiding trial strategy and evidentiary standards
- Developments in intermediate state appellate courts with potential to shape precedent.
- Federal, state, and local legislation or regulation impacting courts, prosecutors, and defenders.
- Developments from state attorneys general, including prosecutions, policy shifts, and personnel moves
- Criminal justice reform efforts and the impact on state and local prosecutions.
- Unique criminal cases at the trial court level, in state or federal court
- Civil appellate opinions affecting the criminal bar, such as rulings on qualified immunity.
- Innovations in criminal law education and defense training at law schools.
- Profiles of judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and others impacting criminal law.
- Studies or reports on the work of state and local prosecutors or public defenders.
- AGENCIES
- State and local prosecutors鈥� offices
- Public defender offices
- DOJ鈥檚 Office of Professional Responsibility
- State bar associations and judicial conduct bodies
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Rules of Criminal Procedure in state and local courts
- Professional conduct standards for criminal attorneysDOJ鈥檚 Office of Professional Responsibility
- State legislative initiatives in criminal prosecutions and defense
- ENFORCEMENT
- Misconduct investigations and disciplinary actions involving prosecutors and defenders
- PROFILES
- Profiles of individual prosecutors, public defenders and private criminal defense attorneys
- Profiles of firms and public offices
Readership
- State and local prosecutors
- State and local public defenders
- Criminal defense attorneys in private practice
- Criminal justice reform advocates
- Law enforcement professionals
- Appellate specialists
- Legal academics and students
- Attorneys specializing in appeals of criminal cases
- Judges and court staff in the criminal courts
- Staff in state attorney generals offices
- Staff at the DOJ, working in the criminal division