Because of what might be described as a definitional “artifact” in our case law, there is a serious inequity that has deprived many offenders of the opportunity to seek review or reconsideration of ...

When he shot his 3-year-old daughter Joy to death in her hospital bed in 1985, Charles Griffith called it a mercy killing. A jury disagreed, calling it first-degree murder. And now, after Griffith ...

The length of a sentence isn’t what makes it hard to understand— it’s how long you have to wait for a phrase to be completed. When you’re reading a sentence, you don’t understand it word by word, but ...

A disgraced former Victorian Detective, who was jailed for trafficking drugs, has lost an appeal against his seven year prison sentence. 53 year old former Drug Squad Detective Wayne Geoffrey ...

The Colorado Court of Appeals has rejected arguments by a Grand Junction man serving a prison sentence in connection with the death of a toddler girl. Through his attorneys, Charles McEachern, 36, had ...

It took the jury slightly less than three hours to sentence Dylann Roof to death for murdering nine men and women at Emanuel AME Church 18 months ago. The jury — two men and 10 women — made the ...