Criminal justice systems need these reforms to better serve rural Iowans and the state budget, writes the Register's ...

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman. Here's a look at who else is on death row in the state.

Consider a recent appeals court decision that answered a key question raised in a malicious-prosecution lawsuit filed by former South Beloit Mayor Randy Kirichkow against former Winnebago County State ...

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) scandal involving the state's most prolific and revered DNA analyst, Yvonne Woods, ...

Around 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 15, Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Dajuan Clark was patrolling near Lower Broadway in Nashville ...

Anjorin described the case as a cross-sue, noting that she and the complainant became defendants before the ruling absolved ...

Thomas Wallace, 61, defended himself throughout a monthlong trial as he faced a murder charge in the death of veteran Kenneth ...

The judge who fined a public defender $100 and ordered him to write an apology letter for being late says he followed the ...

His defense argued the prosecution “shirked its responsibility” to disclose evidence on time and, in turn, violated the court ...

A Kennebec County superior court judge issued an order saying the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services must provide ...

A witness identified simply as “ABC,” yesterday told the Federal High Court in Abuja how the notorious bandit kingpin, Kachalla Halilu, purchased a gun truck from Niger Republic to perpetrate their ...

"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...