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

Defendants are agreeing not to challenge their case because of fears of more jail time or being deported to a country that is ...

The third and final installment in a three-part series exploring how New York state can respond if shifting federal ...

The House bill, H.R. 4002, Criminal Code Improvement Act of 2015, provides that if a federal criminal offense does not specify the state of mind required for conviction, then a default standard of ...

Diddy faced an uncertain verdict as his sex trafficking and racketeering trial concludes with experts divided on ...

Closing arguments by the prosecution in Diddy's trial highlighted claims the rapper used power and fear to force women into ...

Two key innovations have transformed UK corporate crime enforcement over the past decade, but their ultimate effectiveness ...

Instead of adopting the proposal, the group agreed to commit to “the aim of strengthening the jurisdiction of the court over ...

The tradition of granting post-term immunity from prosecution to those who leave the White House now ... accountability for crimes without making political differences a criminal offense.

However, beginning in the early to mid-1990s crime rates in the United States began to fall and have largely continued to fall for more than 20 years. Incarcerations rates, however, have continued ...

There is nothing at all remarkable about the Justice Department’s indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, on its face. If not for the politically electrified name on the defendants ...

But pressing criminal charges against a former U.S. president would take the nation into uncharted territory. The law against “seditious conspiracy” makes it a crime for “two or more persons ...