This Georgia Man Has Been Jailed for 10 Years Without a Trial
In 2013, Maurice Jimmerson was charged with murder. Ten years later, he's still languishing in a Dougherty County jail, awaiting trial.
In 2013, Maurice Jimmerson was charged with murder. Ten years later, he's still languishing in a Dougherty County jail, awaiting trial.
Myles Cosgrove never faced criminal charges in connection with Taylor's death, but he was fired for his reckless use of deadly force.
A Texas jury unanimously rejected Perry’s assertion that Garrett Foster pointed a rifle at him.
The duty to retreat from public confrontations has nothing to do with the cases cited in recent stories about seemingly unjustified shootings.
Meg Garvin, John Yoo, and I argue to the California Supreme Court that L.A. District Attorney George Gascon is not free to ignore the commands of California's Three Strikes Law.
He was hospitalized multiple times for diabetes while in state custody.
The Department of Justice emulates the Kremlin in smearing government critics as foreign agents.
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It took years to break our society; we’ll be a long time making repairs.
Florida will now only require an 8–4 majority for a jury to recommend a death sentence. Alabama is the only other state that allows split juries to recommend death sentences.
The smell of weed in the streets is a sign of progress and tolerance, not decline.
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"They put that man in that cell, left him there to die," said an attorney for the man's family. "And that's exactly what happened."
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Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia last month on espionage charges. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in a penal colony.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two consolidated cases by Alabama women whose cars were both seized for more than a year before courts found they were innocent owners.
Recent efforts from the governor, the attorney general, and state legislators suggest the state is moving away from capital punishment.
It's been nearly three years since New York repealed its police secrecy law, and departments are still fighting to hide misconduct records.
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'Digidog is out of the pound," New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared, not ominously.
Robert Delgado's family is now seeking damages.
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Have we forgotten the era of mass institutionalization?
Headlines about the 34 alleged felonies seem to have obscured newly revealed information about the weakness of the charges.
"It is critical that Oklahomans have absolute faith that the death penalty is administered fairly and with certainty," said the state's attorney general in a Thursday press release.
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Prosecutors are counting each record misrepresenting the former president's reimbursement of that payment as a separate crime.