ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. The ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A group of Ohio criminal law professors is urging the state’s highest court to uphold the reduction of a murder conviction in the death of Cleveland firefighter Johnny Tetrick.

A CBS News investigation has uncovered a massive backlog of court cases that has delayed progress on hundreds of thousands of criminal cases across the United States. CBS News obtained and analyzed ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Prosecutions by the US attorney’s office in New Jersey are poised to advance despite a federal court decision that the office ...

When there are parallel criminal and civil cases, the criminal defendant or the civil defendant sometimes tries to have the civil case abated, on the grounds that the criminal's actual or anticipated ...

A Florida clerk in one of the biggest state circuits in the country launched a criminal law records system that has supplemented the court's decades-old paper system. And attorney Jude Faccidomo, the ...