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A decade after Indiana overhauled its criminal code to reduce incarceration, lawmakers approved more than a dozen new crimes ...

The budget bill just passed by the Senate provides more than $170 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement and ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs was convicted on two of his five criminal charges, but he still faces a mountain of civil lawsuits.

Ahead of his sentencing, Combs' attorneys are up against a label and an image nearly 25 years in the making – one in which Combs declared himself to be a "bad boy for life." ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with "The Jailhouse Lawyer" authors Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull. It's a memoir about Duncan's life as a wrongly incarcerated inmate and his efforts to exonerate himself.

Still, there have been cases of judges rejecting deals because of victim feedback. In her 35-year career as a prosecutor, mostly of white-collar crimes, Peress said she has twice encountered a judge ...

A new Florida law is about to kick into high gear, creating much harsher penalties for “dangerous” speedsters.

Am Law 100 firms leaped to a 12.3-to-1 equity partner pay ratio on average last year, according to ALM survey data.

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