Officials have recalculated the amount of time Casey Anthony must serve in jail, after being convicted of four counts of providing false information in the investigation into her missing 2-year-old…
Humberto Leal Garcia was executed today in Texas for the 1994 murder and sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl, despite White House concerns about violations of international law and damage…
Jailed on what he describes as “some very serious felony charges,” a suspect in the shooting deaths of four people at a Long Island, N.Y., pharmacy last month was worried…
Imposing a more severe sanction than sought by the Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, the state supreme court has indefinitely suspended a lawyer convicted of his fourth drunken-driving offense…
A judge in West Texas has rejected a plea deal in which country singer Willie Nelson would have been fined $500 in exchange for his guilty plea to a misdemeanor…
An email from a husband to his wife discussing trial strategy in his criminal case has won a reversal of his conviction in a divided ruling from the Connecticut Supreme…
Updated: Casey Anthony should be thankful she is being sentenced in Florida state court, according to a law professor who is an authority on sentencing.
Prosecutors throughout California have scaled back use of the state’s three-strikes sentences, vastly reducing the number of lifetime prison terms sought under the statute.
Federal prisoners serving crack cocaine-related sentences will be eligible for early release as a result of a U.S. Sentencing Commission decision today, the Associated Press reports.
A federal appeals court has ruled that a defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when a policeman followed the suspect into his mother’s home and seized a cellphone containing nude…
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