After a Shocking Murder Conviction, the Texas Cop Who Shot Jordan Edwards Is Going to Prison
A jury has sentenced Roy Oliver to 15 years in prison.
A jury has sentenced Roy Oliver to 15 years in prison.
Bail reform is a good idea, but California lawmakers turned it into one hot mess.
Jordan Edwards and his friends were driving away from a party when Roy Oliver shot and killed the 15-year-old.
A judge sides with a Brown University student who says the Title IX process was unfair and discriminatory.
Two thirds of the Llano Police Department stand accused of abusing their power.
His crime? Refusing to sit down.
Benjamin Paul is a single father, a college graduate, an ordained minister, and a career adviser. And he's an ex-con.
My upcoming speaking engagements through November of this year. Most are free and open to the public.
PolitiFact has the details -- but in any event, the purported statistic was suspect on its face.
Feeding the homeless, drawing the Prophet Muhammed, and Kim Kardashian's plea for executive clemency.
Prosecutors have declined to file charges against the officer.
Trump and Republicans will wait until after midterm elections to try to pass a long-awaited prison reform bill.
The woman who leaked a report showing Russian attempts to infiltrate voting systems gets the longest sentence ever imposed for her offense.
Play an augmented-reality zombie shooter in a school halllway, go to jail.
"Flipping" should probably be illegal, Trump says. It's one of federal prosecutors' most beloved tactics, and their go-to argument for mandatory minimums.
After police said Tibbetts' killer is an illegal immigrant, conservatives started using her death to argue for stricter immigration enforcement.
Is hush money to a politician's mistress "for the purpose of influencing an election" or "personal use"?
Matt Welch talks with sportswriter Jeff Pearlman about his new book, Football for a Buck
A question that now hangs like a miasma over D.C. is "Which of my staffers would hang me out to dry in order to avoid going to federal prison?"
Israa al-Ghomgham would be the first female activist to be executed in Saudi Arabia.
At some level, the "void-for-breadth" doctrine already exists, but it needs to be excavated, clarified, and expanded.
Matt Welch interviews Brown (and others, including ex-Reasoner Lauren Krisai) from 9-12 ET.
"For some of us it's as if we are already dead, so what do we have to lose?"
The Wisconsin and Mississippi Supreme Courts have recently rejected state-level Chevron deference.
District attorneys rarely ever get punished for misbehavior that puts innocent people behind bars. Is that about to change?
An inside look at how indie media veterans James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt.
When a criminal law is extremely broad but perfectly clear, in what sense does it violate rule-of-law principles?
The group fears the bill wouldn't really reduce unneeded pretrial detentions of the poor.
A program at UC-Davis looks at the relationship between capitalism and racism.
An actress who helped take down Harvey Weinstein paid $380,000 to keep a young man quiet about their encounter.
The family of 15-year-old Steven Rosenthal is demanding proof after he died in a police chase.
Ha! Science now has a non-shocking answer that question: Yes, of course, they are.
Repurposing "fair notice" principles to tackle an important aspect of overcriminalization.
An interesting case applying the private search reconstruction doctrine.
Kevin Sweeney pleaded guilty to fraud. He is the sixth state trooper to be accused of lying to get more overtime.
MacGyver, Rumpelstiltskin, and a whole bunch of attorneys behaving badly.
Changes in a bill have caused civil rights representatives to take a step back.
I agree with Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) -- this is indeed the best headline I've seen all the week.
For the second time this week, a federal court has rejected the EPA's effort to delay an Obama Administration rule.
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