Plea bargains. Bench trials. Pleading the Fifth. Law students—and anyone who has seen Law and Order—will recognize these as familiar features of the US criminal justice system. But, as Emma Kaufman ...

Six weeks after she vanished from her $1 million home near Tucson, Arizona, we still do not know what happened to Nancy Guthrie. Now it has emerged that investigators are reviewing additional images ...

Immigration attorney Ahmad Yakzan’s legal education guide becomes the top-selling book in Amazon’s Legal Education ...

South Carolina criminal defense lawyer James R. Snell Jr. was quoted by A&E Crime & Investigation in an article explaining Alford pleas. Depending on the circumstances of the case, courts may evaluate ...

A "prolific waste criminal" has been ordered to pay £1.4m relating to 4,275 tonnes of illegally dumped waste across sites in England. It comes after a nationwide investigation by the Environment ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Today’s column is my busman’s holiday project: providing nerd-like numbers and ...

When Harris County courts make the news, it is almost always because of something that happened in our criminal district courts. These are the venues where murder and assault charges are heard as well ...

Harris County's Criminal Courts at Law handle all Class A and Class B misdemeanor criminal cases, ranging from DWI to theft. Since 2019, the courts have been under a federally supervised consent ...

The Taliban has formally entrenched a class-based justice system in Afghanistan under a newly enacted Criminal Procedure Code signed by its supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, a move that has ...

While the Trump administration insists that it is targeting the “worst of the worst” in its immigration enforcement, it has not provided information to substantiate that, and the data that is ...

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