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3 Men Found Guilty in Murders of Tourists on Mexico Surf Trip

The 2024 killings of two Australian brothers and their American friend drew international attention.

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Debra and Martin Robinson, the parents of Callum and Jake Robinson, who were murdered during a surfing trip, outside court in Ensenada, Mexico, on Thursday.
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Christa Pike Discharged From Hospital After Surviving Execution Attempt

Ms. Pike, 50 and convicted of the 1995 murder of a classmate, survived two doses of the drug pentobarbital late last month.

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Christa Pike survived an execution attempt and has now been discharged from the hospital.
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Blogger on Trial: Is a Lewd Image of Shrek Free Speech or Harassment?

An Ohio municipal court heard a misdemeanor case that considered the limits of political discourse in the age of the internet.

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D.J. Byrnes, known as The Rooster, prowls the Ohio Statehouse for his guerrilla journalism.
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Warrants to Search Former Prince Andrew’s Properties Were Unlawful, Court Says

A judge in London said that a “significant error” had been made in the granting of search warrants in an investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

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Officers at an entrance to Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, eastern England, in February after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest. He was later released without charge and has denied wrongdoing.
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Judge Throws Out Last Defendant’s Confession in Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo

The government is now 0-5 in its efforts to admit the so-called clean team confessions to the capital cases at Guantánamo Bay.

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A war court building at Guantánamo Bay, seen in 2019.
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Mass Trials Put Hundreds in One Dock in El Salvador

Lawyers warn that the mass trials of people imprisoned during President Nayib Bukele’s gang crackdown are marred by vague evidence and restrictions on a proper defense.

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Inmates during a mass hearing at the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, prison in April in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
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Ex-C.I.A. Officer Who Stashed Gold Bars Admits to Far Larger $145 Million Scam

A plea hearing revealed a far larger pattern of fraud against the government, while keeping some key secrets still hidden.

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At the time of his arrest, David J. Rush was at work on highly classified programs for both the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.
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Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records

Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bronx by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Gary R. Brown, a federal judge, condemned the agency’s actions.

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Immigration arrests have swept across the New York region as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown.
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Judge Sides With Justice Dept. in Dispute Over Subpoena to Times Freelancer

The magistrate judge’s conclusion is only a recommendation, and a Federal District Court judge is scheduled to hold a hearing on the issue next month.

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Investigators are seeking the freelance reporter’s testimony as they seek to identify his sources for an article about a top-secret operation in North Korea.
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Court Tosses ​​Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim ‘Forgiving’ His Killer Is Played

An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played at a trial.

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Stacey Wales with an enlarged photo of her brother, Christopher Pelkey. She created a video using artificial intelligence to depict her dead brother speaking at the sentencing of his killer.
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Former Nurse Convicted of Murder in Crash at 130 M.P.H. That Killed Six

Nicole Linton was found guilty of six counts of second-degree murder, which included the death of an unborn child, related to a 2022 crash in Los Angeles.

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Nicole Linton in Los Angeles Superior Court in 2022. Prosecutors said she had sped through a red light like a “high-speed missile” in 2022 and crashed into multiple vehicles.
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Ex-Sheriff’s Deputy Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Airman Roger Fortson

The airman, Roger Fortson, had answered a knock at his home in Fort Walton Beach while holding a gun, and was shot within seconds. A Florida jury cleared the former deputy, Eddie Duran.

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Airman Fortson’s mother, Chantemekki Fortson, during a news conference in June 2024. The family’s lawyer supported the decision to charge the former deputy, Eddie Duran.
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Judge Blocks Border Wall Construction in Big Bend in Texas

The ruling dealt a setback to the Trump administration’s plans for hundreds of miles of barriers that have drawn local opposition.

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A construction site for a border wall near Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park in August.
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Judge Throws Out Another Confession in Sept. 11 Case

Prosecutors have long considered the defendants’ admissions during interrogations in 2007 to be their best evidence.

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An image taken in 2007 of the detention facility at the Guantánamo Naval Station in Cuba.
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Judge in Lindsay Clancy’s Case Declines to Find Her Not Guilty After Mistrial

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer argued this week that the state failed to present enough evidence at trial to prove she killed her three children.

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Lindsay Clancy during a court appearance in Plymouth on Tuesday.
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Mike Smith, Bubbles on ‘Trailer Park Boys,’ Has Sexual Assault Charge Dismissed

The Canadian cult comedy series announced that Mr. Smith, 54, would resume his involvement with the show.

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Mike Smith in 2014. A sexual assault charge against Mr. Smith, who plays Bubbles in the Canadian mockumentary series “Trailer Park Boys,” was dismissed on Thursday. He had pleaded not guilty.
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.

After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.

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Federal Judge Orders Bureau of Prisons to Restore Union Protections

In his ruling, Judge Vernon D. Oliver cited public statements from the bureau’s director that hurt the agency’s case in court.

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The Bureau of Prisons had argued in court it was merely carrying out an executive order from President Trump instructing a broad swath of government agencies to end collective bargaining with federal unions.
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