BISMARCK — A convicted murderer's argument that life sentences discriminate against younger offenders didn't hold up with a South Central District Court judge, but the judge did amend the man's ...

The case of slain D.C. police officer Oliver Wendell Smith Jr. illustrates how the rule allowing reconsideration of a sentence can keep families in limbo for years, victims advocates say. In 1997, ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that a man’s arguments for a lighter sentence are enough for him to challenge as unreasonable another year being added to a sentence he ...

BOSTON (AP) — The state's highest court has upheld the sentence of a Massachusetts man who at age 17 was convicted of raping and murdering a woman and drowning her two young children in a bathtub. The ...

Last Monday, the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the Middle District of Florida’s sentence of probation for former physician Nicole Bramwell in a $4.4 million Tricare fraud case was substantively ...