An Ohio lawmaker wants judges to consider a defendant’s immigration status when they set conditions for bail or hand down criminal sentences. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Josh Williams, R-Sylvania ...

George Allen, now 73 years old, has been behind bars for two decades for killing and burying his friend and business associate, Garry McGrath, on his acreage east of Edmonton.

In 2015, former Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella overturned decades of Supreme Court precedent to invent the Charter protected “right to strike.” Going back to the 1980s, the Supreme Court in ...

The world is still waiting for the Hamas response to the Gaza ceasefire plan, outlined by US president Donald Trump at a White House press conference on Monday night.

A year after federal prosecutors unveiled a sweeping criminal case against Sean "Diddy" Combs and months after a trial that revealed shocking details of violence and his private life, the convicted ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — On the day he turned 18 years old, a Decatur teenager was sentenced to spend the next 15 years in prison for shooting a marijuana dealer after a drug deal went wrong earlier ...

Mr. Combs’s life in jail: Since his arrest, Mr. Combs has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, which has come under criticism from detainees’ advocates for its conditions and ...

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 […] ...

The requirement to disarm and relinquish control of Gaza is a particular sticking point, with Hamas officials expressing concern that such measures would amount to a new form of occupation ...

Indonesia s revised criminal code will take effect in three months, expanding its blasphemy laws from one to six articles and introducing new clauses that critics say are vague and open to abuse The ...

Despite being imprisoned in Israel since 2002, Barghouti has consistently topped polls of potential future PA leaders. His supporters have named him the “Palestinian Nelson Mandela” in the hope that ...

The Beggary Law is one of the most draconian legislations and the severity increases manifold in the context of mental illness ...