UPDATES: The family of actor Lance Reddick is taking issue with a coroner’s conclusion on his cause of death.

Earlier reports linked Reddick’s death to heart disease. But the attorney representing the family is saying that cause of death was not proven by an autopsy and is inconsistent with Reddick’s habits and fitness.

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Attorney James Hornstein claimed Reddick was “the most physically fit person I’ve ever known.” He said the actor worked out daily at his home gym, doing extensive cardio and maintaining a strict diet. He said Reddick required “the availability of gym facilities” as a

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday that he hopes the enhanced security he authorized last year for Supreme Court justices and their families will not be provided indefinitely by the US Marshals Service.

“This is a task we’d gladly turn over to the Supreme Court Police,” Garland said during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing.

“We’re hoping this isn’t a long-term solution for the justices, because there are a lot of courts around the country,” the attorney general said. “And the marshals have traditional security responsibilities — and that’s to say nothing of their fugitive apprehension responsibilities.”

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Whatever other failings and misdeeds Alex Murdaugh may be guilty of, he would “not have killed the people he loved most in the world,” his defense attorney told jurors Thursday before they decide whether the former Lowcountry attorney committed murder.

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Jim Griffin gave the final defense of Murdaugh Thursday after a six-week trial at the Colleton County Courthouse

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Attorney Benjamin Crump has been at the forefront of some of the highest-profile cases involving civil rights and racial injustice – but admits there’s much more work to be done.

While accepting the Social Justice Impact Award at the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night, Crump vowed “never to stop fighting racism and discrimination.”

“I accept this award as greater motivation to continue to be an unapologetic defender of Black life, Black liberty and Black humanity,” he said.

Crump said he was also prepared to “fight for Black history in and outside of the courtrooms” – an apparent

An attorney for Elliot Blair’s family claims that his head was likely “hit and dragged” by more than one person before dying while on a vacation in Mexico.

Blair, a public defender in California, was vacationing in Rosita, Mexico last month with his wife Kimberly Williams celebrating their one-year anniversary when he was found dead outside an entrance to a three-story hotel.

Mexican authorities have been inconsistent in their explanations for Blair’s death, but the family believes it was a murder.

Mexican authorities claim that his death “was the result of an unfortunate accident due to the fall of the

Attorney General Merrick Garland has “multiple options” for handing an investigation into former Vice President Mike Pence’s improper retention of classified records, and former officials and legal experts told Fox News Digital that he is “not obligated” to establish another special counsel.

Pence informed Congress on Tuesday that he discovered documents with classified markings in his Carmel, Indiana, home on Jan. 16 from his time as vice president.

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Pence informed the National Archives on Jan. 18 of a small number of potentially classified documents found in