Alleged Terrorist Ehsanul Sadequee Delivers Prayer and Opening Statement; Alleged Co-Conspirator Testifies

Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 23, nicknamed "Shifa," which means "Cure," is representing himself in his trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on four counts of allegedly conspiring to provide material support to terrorism. As reported by the Atlanta.

The stage is being set for the Supreme Court to evaluate technology’s effect on the scope of the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate oneself. The government is seizing computers routinely now in investigations. But, the files on those computers are increasingly.

How can it be that after the state of New York decriminalized possession of personal use quantities of marijuana, New York City police still manage to rack up tens of thousands of marijuana arrests every year -- including 33,000 arrests just in.

Defendant was convicted by a jury in the Northern District of Illinois for defrauding LaSalle Bank and sentenced to 96 months in prison, ordered to forfeit $16,241,202 in money that he obtained from the fraud, and ordered to pay restitution in the.

Why would African American defendants being prosecuted for in federal court on charges that could carry the death penalty adopt a bizarre defense developed by white supremacists, one that the trial judge himself  describes as legal "suicide"? The full story of the.

As reported by Chris Herring over at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the trial of former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi is scheduled to commence next Monday. And now the government has obtained Tannin’s e-mails from his private Google.

Jared Forgle: How People Get Arrested For Child Porn Crimes In August, the former spokesperson for the Subway sandwich chain, Jared Fogle, was arrested on federal charges. Fogle was accused of paying money to engage in explicit sexual acts with children. He.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, inc., will pay $2.3 billion to the Federal government and 49 States to settle allegations that it violated federal regulations in promoting several drugs, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The settlement is the largest in U.S. history to date.

The federal judges who are overseeing the attempt to rescue the California prison health system are considering "whether California's prison system needs to have a cap on its inmate population to alleviate overcrowding because of its deleterious impact on the health care,".

The trial of Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin got underway last week. As reported by attorney Jacob Zamansky in Forbes and the New York Daily News, the parties gave opening statements on Thursday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Sinclair.