By Steve Neavling A federal appeals court has reversed the murder conviction of a man sentenced to life in prison for the 2010 killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in southern Arizona. The killing exposed the botched gun-walking operation known as “Fast and Furious.” The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes’s…
A federal appeals court in Washington D.C. will consider the Justice Department’s order to dismiss the criminal case against Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Justice Department to give House lawmakers secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, The Washington Post reported.
TSA screeners at airport security checkpoints have such an important job that they cannot always be sued for failing to behave properly, a federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Tuesday.
The FBI’s use of gag orders to prevent companies from disclosing the number and details of national security letters does not run afoul of the First Amendment, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday.
Former FBI Agent John Connolly, who assisted now-imprisoned mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, was rightfully convicted of second-degree murder with a firearm even though he was 1,500 miles away from his vicim at the time of the fatal shooting by a hit man, an appeals court ruled.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent John Connolly is trying to convince a Florida appeals court that he should be released from prison because he is not a murderer. The Miami Herald reports that appeals judges in Miami-Dade are revisiting the former agent’s conviction of murder with a firearm in a case connected to notorious…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal appeals court is expected to decide soon whether the FBI’s “national security letters” are constitutional, the San Jose Mercury News reports. The letters are a demand for customer information in terrorism-related cases, allowing the FBI to obtain information without a warrant. San Francisco U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled…
