In the new, gentrified post-9/11 New York City, gone are the days when a visitor’s trip to Times Square might include aggressive panhandling, a mugging or an uncomfortable exchange with…
Mar 1, 2014 11:39 AM CST
Though many New Yorkers credited aggressive police tactics for a sharp reduction in street crime, policies like stop-and-frisk proved immensely unpopular in the city’s poorest precincts. In one eight-block area of Brooklyn, police made nearly 52,000 stops over a four-year period, resulting in a limited number of arrests. ©Kevin Downs/Demotix/Corbis
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The U.S. will seek extradition of the claimed leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, who was captured over the weekend sleeping in a condo in a Mexican beach resort town…
Feb 24, 2014 6:30 PM CST
The American Bar Association has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant cert in the case of a Florida death-row inmate whose lawyer failed to file…
Feb 6, 2014 12:00 PM CST
A federal judge in Missouri has granted a preliminary injunction to prevent a Missouri town from prosecuting drivers for flashing their headlights.
U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey said the plaintiff,…
Feb 4, 2014 4:31 PM CST
On Jan. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases that hopefully will force it to bring the Fourth Amendment into the 21st century. In United States v.…
Feb 4, 2014 2:45 PM CST
Eighty-seven convicted defendants were exonerated in the United States last year, a record high, according to a new report by the National Registry of Exonerations.
DNA played a role in…
Feb 4, 2014 2:19 PM CST
Criminal court judges in one Kansas county are resolving serious criminal cases by acting as mediators.
Judges who mediate the criminal cases in Shawnee Country District Court aren’t the judges…
Feb 4, 2014 12:00 PM CST
Franklin Frye was dispatched to a mental hospital in 1971 after a not-guilty-by-insanity verdict in the case of a stolen necklace valued at about $20. Since then he has sought…
Feb 3, 2014 2:53 PM CST
In what the New York Times characterizes as an “unprecedented move,” the Justice Department on Thursday asked defense lawyers to help identify low-level offenders who were…
Jan 31, 2014 12:00 PM CST
Updated: Convicted again—along with her Italian ex-boyfriend—Thursday by an Italian court in the 2007 slaying of her former roommate in that country, onetime American exchange student Amanda Knox wasn’t there…
Jan 30, 2014 10:05 PM CST
Hollywood couldn’t come up with a better script than this. A gang member was convicted in 1986 of double murder by two prosecutors who are now accused of coercing witnesses…
Jan 28, 2014 10:00 PM CST
Ordered to spend 48 hours in jail in August for violating test rules for her drug program, an Indiana woman was released last week, 154 days later, after becoming lost…
Jan 28, 2014 2:25 PM CST
South Carolina’s attorney general says he will ask a state supreme court justice to recuse himself from criminal cases, after the justice told a group of prosecutors in a speech…
Dec 20, 2013 11:49 PM CST
As the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal unfolded at Penn State University, the school’s general counsel went from being a close adviser to school officials tasked with managing the unfolding…
Dec 20, 2013 7:45 PM CST
A National Security Agency program that collects information from nearly all telephone calls made to or from the United States is probably unconstitutional, a federal judge held Monday.
In his…
Dec 16, 2013 8:50 PM CST