A contentious and ongoing battle in criminal court is the investigative technique of police obtaining a court order for a tower dump compelling telecom companies to turn over the names and phone numbers of cellphone users whose signals pinged off a given tower during a particular period of time.

On Wednesday, the first known cases of coronavirus struck federal penitentiaries in the United States. The number of infected inmates and staffers at local facilities across America continued to climb, heightening concerns about the spread of the pandemic within the tight quarters housing the nation's inmates.

In what is a never-ending saga of politicians misusing funds for their own benefit, former Republican Representative Duncan Hunter, was sentenced to 11 months in prison and three years of parole for corruption charges.

Public health agencies around the world are preparing for COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that has spread from China to multiple regions of the world. We now see more cases outside of China than inside, and we’re also hearing of cases inside the U.S. among people without known travel contact.

In a recent case out of Ontario, R v Fearon, a confidential informant gave information that Fearon was dealing cocaine and heroin. The informer provided an address, vehicle description, the history of dealing, a concentrated geographic location and the street name to be used during all drug transactions.

In R v. Mohammed, the accused was stopped by police in a parking lot because the license plate light on his vehicle was out. A probationary constable and training officer were involved. The probationary constable approached the accused’s car and noticed marijuana smoke coming from the vehicle. She immediately placed the accused under arrest and gave him a caution that fell well short of the formal caution required. The accused was not told of the availability of legal aid or access to duty counsel.

The murder-for-hire deal went down inside the Edison Diner, a small red-brick eatery off Route 1 in New Jersey, on September 13th, 2009. Joe Passalaqua, a dark-haired 54-year-old with arms as thick as his Long Island accent, scribbled “$30,000” on a piece of paper and slipped it across the table to Chris Kontos, a Greek-American who owned strip clubs and restaurants throughout the state.

Nearly a decade into his life sentence for a murder he denied committing, Lydell Grant walked out of a Texas prison al thanks to DNA that was re-examined by a software program. Now 42-years-old, Grant is on a fast track to be exonerated after a judge recommended in December that Texas’ highest criminal court vacate his conviction. It is hoped that this occurs in the next few weeks.

The man, in his late 40's at the time, refused to take a breathalyzer test and was taken to a hospital, where his initial blood alcohol level was found to be 0.2% — about 2.5 times the legal limit and the equivalent of consuming 10 drinks an hour. Despite the man swearing up and down that he hadn't had anything to drink, doctors didn't believe him either.

A man who served 17 years behind bars has been exonerated from his rape conviction and released from a Georgia prison after a new DNA analysis cleared him of the crime. It is a story that we are hearing more and more with the implementation of new DNA technology.