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This photo from the Baltimore Police Department shows the six police officers charged with felonies ranging from assault to murder in the death of Freddie Gray. Top row from left: Caesar R. Goodson Jr., Garrett E. Miller and Edward M. Nero. Bottom row fro

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Maryland's Highest Court Delays Trials In Freddie Gray Case

8:45pm February 18, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The Court of Appeals must decide whether Baltimore Police Officer William Porter can be compelled to testify against five other officers while still facing his own charges.

FBI Director James Comey has said enhanced security on cellphones and other devices blunts the bureau's ability to find terrorists before they strike or to prosecute them if they are caught.

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Experts Cast Doubt On What Else FBI Might Get From Suspect's iPhone

6:46pm February 18, 2016

by NPR Staff

The showdown between the FBI and Apple could result in huge changes for security and privacy, but one thing it may not do is deliver a big break in the San Bernardino case.

Sen. Ron Johnson: 'Let The American People Decide' Direction Of Supreme Court

4:27pm February 18, 2016

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. The Republican senator, who is running for re-election this year, said on Sunday we should wait for the next elected president to choose Justice Antonin Scalia's replacement. He has since switched his position, now willing to vote on Obama's Supreme Court nominee.

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More Than 130 Maryland Lifers Adjust To Freedom After Court Ruling

4:10pm February 18, 2016

by Robert Siegel

Over 130 "geriatric prisoners" who were serving life sentences are leaving Maryland prisons due to a ruling by the state's highest court on criminal cases before 1980.

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Karriem Saleem El-Amin of Baltimore is one of the more than 130 prisoners serving life sentences for violent crimes who were released on probation following a landmark ruling by Maryland's highest court.

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From A Life Term To Life On The Outside: When Aging Felons Are Freed

3:41pm February 18, 2016

A landmark ruling by Maryland's highest court affected prisoners convicted of violent crimes before 1981. None of them has re-offended so far. But that's no comfort to angry families of their victims.

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Ex-Solicitor General Clement, Who Clerked For Scalia, On Judge's Legacy

12:55pm February 18, 2016

Paul Clement, who clerked for Scalia on the Supreme Court and went on to argue dozens of cases before the court — and Scalia — as solicitor general, remembers the judge who died Saturday.

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Sen. Leahy: Delaying Supreme Court Appointment Would Be Irresponsible

11:48am February 18, 2016

In the wake of Antonin Scalia's death, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, argues that President Obama should be the one to nominate Scalia's replacement.

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Shawna Cox, seen here walking with Ammon Bundy and other armed anti-government protesters at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., last month, cites "extremely serious public corruption" in a countersuit. Both Cox and Bundy face federal c

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Oregon Occupier Countersues For $666 Billion, Citing 'Works Of The Devil'

11:08am February 18, 2016

by Bill Chappell

While she invoked the number of the beast in her request for damages, Shawna Cox listed a wide array of people she plans to subpoena, from judges to local and federal police.

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Apple Raises The Stakes In Silicon Valley's Fight Over Encryption

10:32am February 18, 2016

by Martin Kaste

Apple says it will not comply with a judge's request that it help unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino, Calif., attack. This legal showdown has been years in the making as tensions have been building between tech companies and law enforcement, as encryption has become easier to use — and harder to crack.

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Politics & Government

GOP Would Be Irresponsible Not To Consider Supreme Court Nominee, Leahy Says

6:56am February 18, 2016

Renee Montagne talks to Sen. Patrick Leahy, ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, about the prospects for a vote on a nominee to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.