The issue before the Supreme Court in Koons v. United States concerns the application of 18 U.S.C. §3582(c)(2), which allows federal judges to modify a prison term for a “defendant who has been ...
Moving further along the constitutional line between adults and children in the criminal courts, the Supreme Court on Tuesday turned to life-without-parole sentences for youths who commit murder, and ...
February 28, 2022 - Most appellate lawyers will say that oral arguments are fading: with every passing year, there are fewer and they are shorter. What time is allotted may be consumed or redirected ...
AUGUSTA — An Oakland woman previously sentenced to 90 days in jail for firing a bullet from her handgun into the floor while arguing with her then-husband in 2023 was resentenced Monday to a year in ...
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Robert Holbrook, who was given a life sentence, and Ashley Nellis, co-author of the book "The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences." The ...
KHOU 11’s afternoon anchors opened the update with a line that almost doesn’t feel real until you hear it said out loud: a Houston man will spend the rest of his life in prison after a killing tied to ...
A powerful DIY film cobbled together from testimonials, iPhone videos, and home movies, Rudy Valdez’s personal documentary The Sentence explores the personal toll of mandatory minimum drug sentences ...
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