A shift in reasoning at the Second Circuit recognizing the importance of a defendant’s right to be present for all things at sentencing marks a move in the right direction. Many years ago, in State v.

During the holiday season, in the picturesque town of Petoskey, Michigan, Kimiko Uyeda, and her son Marshall celebrate with an annual tradition of selecting a new ornament to add to their tree. Year ...

The Supreme Court decided Congress didn’t mean “and” when it put that word in a 2018 federal criminal justice overhaul law that sets eligibility for a “safety valve” for defendants to avoid mandatory ...

However noble the Legislature’s goals might have been, the new law denies closure to future victims, reopens the wounds of prior victims and will cause far more problems than it will ever solve. In ...

The story lines of every episode of legal TV dramas, from Law & Order to Perry Mason, revolve around five key narrative ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- New laws that took effect Monday to extend prison time for many serious criminal offenses and to crack down on fentanyl will affect the criminal courts, but it'll take some time and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder cautioned against the use of data in sentencing criminal defendants, saying judges should base punishment on the facts of a crime rather than on ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing hearing Friday in his business records falsification case was one for the history books. It ended not with a bang, but a whimper. Trump knew in advance of the ...