The Legislature should take steps to create a new, independent public defense system that's financed by social impact bonds.

Prosecutors with the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office are now seeking to revoke 31-year-old Chase Cox’s probation and send ...

These are the West Coast events involving the members of the group linked to the killings of the Chester Heights couple and ...

Louisiana, New York and other states are rolling back reforms — and efforts to reduce excessive sentencing or expand parole ...

Karen Read is set to go on trial for the second time next week on murder charges in the January 2022 death of her boyfriend, ...

Karen Read is going on trial again for allegedly running down her police officer boyfriend in 2022 after the first trial ...

Heuermann's defense team has sought to bar from trial the DNA results from rootless hairs found at six of the seven crime ...

Lawmakers are likely to blow past the April 1 deadline, in part because they're split on Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposal to ...

A judge Friday afternoon did OK a request for an out-of-town-jury, which will be sequestered during the trial.

Why did the president pardon a campaign donor who'd been convicted of crimes related to defrauding investors? Trump struggled ...

A Massachusetts attorney who served as an alternate juror in the mistrial of Karen Read last year has joined her defense in ...

The judge doubted Nicole Lopes competency and suggested even more serious consequences are coming, while Lopes accused the ...