By Parker Quinlan ( June 23, 2026, 8:02 PM EDT) -- The dean of University of California, Berkeley School of Law, told the Ninth Circuit that a federal court in California is within its rights to refuse the federal government's request to drop already-tried charges against a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was convicted by a jury of violating the constitutional rights of a Black woman during a shoplifting investigation.... Law360 is on it, so you are, too.