Brett Favre’s lawyer calls defamation case against Pat McAfee and Shannon Sharpe a “slam dunk”

Anyone who tells you they know how a case will turn out is either lying or stupid. No one ever knows how any case is going to go. There are too many factors. Too many things no one can control. Too many unpredictable, but inevitable, twists and turns that can turn a winner into a […]

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Military justice reforms still leave some criminal cases to commanders with no legal expertise

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. More than a year has passed since Congress adopted reforms that promised to overhaul the US military justice system. Lawmakers stripped military commanders of their authority to prosecute certain serious cases but […]

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Attorney in Tire Nichols’ case says unreleased footage could help ‘connect all the dots’

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said on Thursday that additional, unreleased footage related to Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols could “connect all the dots” related to the incident. Memphis officials last week released a graphic video of a group of law enforcement officers beating Nichols during a traffic stop earlier this month. The video […]

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