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Latest News in Access to Justice

• August 19, 2025

  4th Circ. Revives Habeas Bid Over Attorney-Client Evidence

  The Fourth Circuit has ordered a lower court to conclusively determine whether a Maryland woman's rights were violated after prosecutors retried her for murder using information they gathered from her successful ineffective assistance of counsel motion during the first trial.

• August 18, 2025

  Physicians Call Out ICE Medical Neglect In Detention Facilities

  A group of New York medical practitioners on Monday called for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop denying medical care to detained noncitizens across the United States.

• August 18, 2025

  NC Sheriff's Office Must Hand Over Officer Names In Raid Suit

  A North Carolina federal judge has ordered a county sheriff's office to turn over the names of officers involved in a midnight raid on a home they incorrectly believed was harboring a suspected carjacker.

• August 15, 2025

  4th Circ. Revives Asylum-Seeker's Suit Over Her Atty's Error

  The Fourth Circuit has revived a Salvadoran woman's bid for asylum based on threats from a gang, saying in a published opinion that the woman's previous attorney proposed a legal theory during her removal proceedings that was "dead on arrival."

• August 15, 2025

  Despite Criminal Justice 'Tragedy,' Murder Framing Suit Axed

  A man who spent 23 years in prison after allegedly being framed for murder by vindictive police had his civil suit over the ordeal dismissed by a Rhode Island federal judge, who lamented the lack of recourse for misconduct she said amounted to a "tragedy in criminal justice."

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