Prosecutors have immense power in the criminal justice system. They decide whom to charge with crimes, what punishment to seek and what evidence to use at trial. State and national legal and ethical ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Less than a month after Denver’s new district attorney took office, two of its criminal cases were dismissed for evidence violations, court officials ...

A $16 million effort by King County to send most juvenile criminal cases to community-based diversion programs, rather than the court system, is struggling to meet its goals, a county report shows.

SCOTUSCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official ...

Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped the federal government’s two criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, as Trump’s state cases are already poised to be delayed for years as he ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official ...

Justice Department (DOJ) officials fired several prosecutors who worked on President Trump’s criminal cases, saying they could not “trust” them. The move impacted at least a dozen prosecutors who ...