Gregory Vance covers law and criminal justice with a prosecutor’s eye for how a case is actually built. Precise on procedure, careful with allegations, and clear about what the evidence does and does not show.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel had already decentralised operations away from its founder's direct control. His stepson took over without a significant violent struggle for power.
Recruited renters use real identities to take luxury trucks for five days, leave them with keys inside, then cartel operators collect them and drive to the border. California rules stop agencies activating GPS tracking until after the return deadline — enough time to reach Mexico.
Seven doctors, nurses and other staff have been on trial since April over the football legend's death in 2020. Prosecutors say warning signs were ignored and his recovery home lacked basic medical equipment.
The New York attorney general secured the lifetime ban alongside up to $35 million in conditional payments. Mashinsky is already serving a 12-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to securities and commodities fraud.
The former Philippines president had claimed cognitive decline affected his memory and daily functioning. His trial opens on 30 November, with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted.
Newly filed documents show internal researchers questioned algae biofuels and carbon capture while Exxon promoted them. The US Supreme Court heard arguments in October 2026 in a Boulder case that could shape the fate of nearly 60 similar climate lawsuits.
Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun admitted to helping route restricted Nvidia A100 and H100 servers through Southeast Asian intermediaries to conceal Chinese end customers. A co-founder of Super Micro has denied the charge; a third defendant remains a fugitive.
US regulators found the company's anti-money-laundering controls were so weak that suspected trade-based activity slipped through undetected for ten years. The Federal Reserve also issued a cease-and-desist order against American Express and its travel services subsidiary.
The justices heard arguments in Suncor v. Boulder, a case brought after the 2021 Marshall Fire destroyed over 1,000 homes. The companies warn a ruling for Boulder could trigger 90,000 similar lawsuits across the country.
Teenagers recruited via Snapchat were stopped trying to plant a device near Bank of America offices in March. The FBI says the alleged organiser may have been behind 18 similar actions across Europe.
US prosecutors plan to add allegations that the pair played a role in the wrongful detention and torture of more than a dozen US citizens held in Venezuelan prisons. The new charges would widen an existing drug and weapons case against them.
His lawyers are challenging the legality of the warrants used to search his homes at Sandringham and Windsor before his arrest in February. If the court rules in his favour, evidence gathered in the searches could be barred from any future prosecution.
Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, had allegedly bought an AK-47 and 200 rounds of ammunition from an undercover FBI agent for $600. Prosecutors say he planned to kill 30 to 60 people at a Hmong Arts Celebration on 24 October.
A US district judge found sufficient evidence that Saudi government employees knowingly helped the al-Qaeda hijackers, denying the kingdom's motion to dismiss. Saudi Arabia has appealed the ruling, and no trial date has been set.
Abdullah Albadri, 34, tried to climb the embassy fence in Kensington carrying two knives before armed officers stopped him. He had arrived in the UK by small boat just 16 days earlier and told police he wanted to 'do something to stop the war'.
Boulder, Colorado, filed suit against Suncor and ExxonMobil in 2018, accusing them of driving climate change and misleading the public on fossil-fuel risks. A ruling against the city could end dozens of similar cases brought by nearly 60 local governments across the country.
The Justice Department says all 40 concealed criminal histories or other material facts when applying for citizenship. Cases include a navy sailor convicted of passing secrets to China and a man convicted of sexual offences against a minor.
ZachXBT posed as a paying client inside a Chinese crime syndicate after the $1.5 billion Bybit hack. His undercover operation traced more than $12 million in stolen funds, and Tether froze $442,000 linked to the cluster he identified.
A proposed nationwide class action filed in Chicago alleges the company used machine-learning algorithms trained on nonpublic data to coordinate prices among franchisees who may compete with one another. McDonald's says AI does not set its prices and that store owners make their own pricing decisions.
The men and boys, some as young as 12, spent years in Kurdish-run prisons before being moved to Iraqi custody. Human Rights Watch warns of overcrowding, allegations of torture, and trials that could end in the death penalty.
Unauthorised individuals exploited a Danish company's legitimate access to the CPR system in September. Names, addresses and ID numbers were exposed — and police are now investigating.
Jane Doe, 20, says seven men assaulted her after she was pressured to take ketamine and arrived severely intoxicated. New York's governor has appointed the state attorney general to take over the investigation, saying she had lost faith in the county prosecutor.
Wanying "Heather" Zhang, 34, was stopped at the airport before a flight to Shanghai. The FBI says she photographed the target's home and told a handler on WeChat: "Saw him. I am videorecording."
Two young mothers and five children, all aged seven and under, have been living in tents in Gaza after the Home Office wrongly blocked them from travelling to the UK. A tribunal judge ruled their children's best interests must come first.
The case alleges Google used its grip on Android app distribution to exclude rivals and overcharge developers and consumers for more than a decade. A £260 million settlement for developers was approved just two weeks before trial, but the main claim presses on.
Manchester Airports Group was breached over the weekend of 22-23 August after an API key had been sitting exposed in public website code since 2022. The attackers leaked 550GB of data and published it on 2 September after MAG refused to pay a ransom.
A Florida woman charged with voting illegally in 2020 had her case dismissed after the judge found Congress has no constitutional authority to set voter qualifications — only states do. The ruling could complicate the Trump administration's push to prosecute noncitizens for voting, with about 45 similar cases pending across the country.
Greg Lui, owner of Earthmade Computer Inc., allegedly used false documents and routed shipments through Malaysia and Singapore to conceal China as the true destination. Prosecutors say the scheme ran between 2023 and 2024 and are seeking to keep him in custody pending trial.
The FBI and EPA issued a joint advisory after attacks spread across at least seven states. Operators lost control of pumps and valves, and some communities received boil-water notices.
A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled the warrantless Flock query gave police a month's worth of a driver's movements and amounted to mass surveillance. She suppressed the camera records and everything found in the subsequent vehicle search.
Rahman Salehi and Salam Ahmadyan were arrested on 20 September, the eve of Yom Kippur, and are accused of sourcing explosive components and carrying out reconnaissance on possible targets. Police say they see no ongoing threat to the public.
Joshua Kerry, 28, already faces a murder charge over the death of the former Conservative minister in July. He now faces a separate terrorism charge over alleged plans that included Reform UK's leader, Nigel Farage.
The Abu Dhabi Declaration, agreed by acclamation at the UN's largest crime congress, sets out 67 initiatives covering cybercrime, trafficking, corruption and criminal asset recovery. It calls for AI to be used in justice systems, but only with human oversight and data protections in place.
A Santa Fe jury found over 43 million violations of New Mexico's consumer protection law, ruling that Facebook misled users about how it protected their personal data. The judge will set penalties at a hearing on Oct. 1; the state is seeking the maximum $5,000 per violation.
At least 70 Indian nationals were allegedly brought to the Netherlands and five other countries as chefs, then made to work up to 80 hours a week in non-chef roles for well below legal wages. Restaurant owners are suspected of making over €4 million in unlawful profits.
Prosecutors in Dortmund are looking at his alleged role at Stalag 326 in Senne, one of the largest Nazi PoW camps, where up to 70,000 prisoners are thought to have died. No charges have been filed and prosecutors have not set out his alleged individual role.
Mahamat Said Abdel Kani was found guilty on four counts, including torture and persecution of prisoners in Bangui. He is the first Seleka member to be convicted by the court; sentencing will be set at a separate hearing.
The children were toddlers in Crimean orphanages when Russia seized the peninsula in 2014. They were granted Russian citizenship and placed with adoptive families — and Ukrainian authorities have had no information about them since.
Fourteen defendants were found guilty on all counts, including murder and terrorism charges, after a five-year trial. Each of the 15 received a 220-year prison term.
Every Crown Court will set aside at least one courtroom for rape and serious sexual offence cases. Fixed trial dates, private victim entrances and trauma-informed staff training are all part of the plan, with specialist police teams across all forces due by December 2027.
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was shot once in the torso and is in serious but stable condition. Whether he was armed or posed an imminent threat remains unknown, and Austin police were not part of the operation.
The company is contesting Ofcom's decision to place WhatsApp and Instagram in a higher-duty category, its use of global revenue to calculate charges, and its demands for internal data. TikTok, X, Roblox and Quora are also challenging parts of the Act's rollout, which begins in April.
A 49-page opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel says the 1968 restriction on licensed dealers selling handguns to 18-to-20-year-olds violates the Second Amendment. The law stays on the books — Congress has not repealed it — but federal prosecutors have been told not to bring cases.
Mohammed Sharifullah scouted a road to Kabul airport hours before the 2021 attack, reporting it clear. Jurors convicted him of supporting ISIS-K but deadlocked on whether his actions directly caused the deaths — ruling out a life sentence.
Tierra Walker, 37 and 20 weeks pregnant, requested an abortion and was turned away at a San Antonio hospital. She died two days later. Her family's lawsuit is the first to directly name the Texas attorney general over a death linked to the state's abortion ban.
NewsChopper4 crashed in Chatsworth on Tuesday night, killing journalists Eliana Moreno and George Marciniw along with a third person whose identity has not been released. The cause of the crash is not yet known.
The Justice Department says the network recruited operatives to assassinate Russian dissidents in the US and Lithuania, and to attack infrastructure in countries supporting Ukraine. All five defendants remain at large.
Fraudulent requests passed standard email authentication checks, leading Revolut to hand over personal details, identity documents and transaction records. The company says funds were not touched, but has not disclosed how many customers were affected or whether the data has been misused.
David Rush, 49, is accused of claiming military leave pay years after his Navy discharge, and of faking his degrees and résumé. Prosecutors say the 303 gold bars found at his home — which he called work expenses — are a separate matter, though he was not supposed to have them there.
A Reuters tally found the dismissals came amid public calls, including from JD Vance, to report Kirk's critics to their employers. Some workers have won reinstatement or financial restitution, though the legal basis for most decisions remains unclear.
The men allegedly obtained a rifle, 13 handguns and more than 700 rounds of ammunition, with part of the arsenal moved to Vienna. Prosecutors say the attack was planned for early October 2025, to mark the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel.
The Justice Department and Department of Education allege the school used race, essay prompts and other mechanisms to favour Black applicants. The finding comes three years after the Supreme Court banned race-based affirmative action in college admissions.
The Boeing 767 travelled 1,300 feet past the end of the runway, broke through the perimeter fence and struck two vehicles — including a van carrying seven people. The NTSB and FAA are investigating, and the flight recorders have been recovered.
US prosecutors accuse the Chinese tech giant of running an organised crime operation to steal trade secrets, defraud banks and evade sanctions. A conviction could result in one of the largest corporate criminal fines in US history.
The regulator claims Amazon misled the businesses that buy placements on its advertising platform about how its pricing and auction systems actually work. Key details of the complaint, including the scale of the alleged harm and the remedies sought, have not yet been made public.
The Hague District Court found Eugene N., a 66-year-old Dutch national, guilty of genocide and war crimes for throwing a grenade into a crowd of Tutsis sheltering at a stadium in Mbazi and directing attackers to let none escape. Rwanda had sought his extradition in 2014, but Dutch law bars handing over citizens, so Dutch authorities opened their own investigation in 2020 and arrested him in 2024.
Three guilty pleas for obstruction at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers have given legal weight to long-standing concerns that the evidence underpinning earlier acquittals of KLA commanders may have been compromised — while former president Hashim Thaçi now faces a separate indictment for alleged interference in his own ongoing war crimes trial.
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