A Maryland appeals court has upheld the conviction of John Allen Muhammad, convicted of six sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C., area, in a biting opinion that said his claims…
New federal sentencing guidelines took effect yesterday that will cut the recommended sentences for crack cocaine offenses and reduce the prison population.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s new guidelines cut the…
Prosecutors have been asked to prepare a response to a long-shot emergency bail application to an individual U.S. Supreme Court justice, made in an effort to delay the start of…
Formerly sealed documents detailing jailhouse phone calls made by the leader of a controversial fringe sect of the Mormon church that advocates polygamy were released Tuesday by a Utah court.
ABA President William H. Neukom is supporting legislation to eliminate the disparity in federal sentences for crack and powder cocaine offenses. Currently, crack cocaine offenders are punished the same as…
Misrepresenting himself as still married to his ex-wife for six years, so that she could continue to be covered under his health insurance, has cost a former New York state…
If a police officer acts improperly during an arrest, a defendant in a California criminal case has a right to obtain in camera judicial review of that officer’s personnel file…
Two cases argued yesterday before the U.S. Supreme Court raise issues of statutory construction. The outcome will affect futures clearinghouses and prisoners.
DNA tests funded with help from the lead singer of Pearl Jam have revealed that none of the teens convicted of killing three 8-year-old Arkansas boys in 1993 left genetic…
In his first public comment after being sentenced to 12 years in prison for breaking into a neighbor’s home and stabbing him to death, a 30-year-old Connecticut lawyer says he…
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