A new algorithm aims to assess the likelihood of defendants being treated unfairly in court. The tool considers details that ought to be immaterial to the ruling — such as the judge’s and defendant’s ...

The Chief Justice, Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo, delegated the acting duties to Justice Okuo on Thursday The Judiciary has announced that Anti-Corruption Judge Jane Okuo Kajuga has been assigned the ...

The Kane County Juvenile Justice Center in St. Charles is getting a new principal. Marisa Christoffel, most recently the assistant principal at Smith Elementary School in West Aurora School District ...

The National Registry of Exonerations has recorded the 3,000th exoneration of a wrongly convicted defendant since 1989: the case of Reynaldo Munoz, framed for a Chicago murder. Three thousand innocent ...