Court: Sentencing System Wrongly Applied
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A splintered Supreme Court threw the nation's federal sentencing system into turmoil Wednesday, ruling that the way judges have been sentencing some 60,000 defendants a year is unconstitutional.
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The unusually harsh sentence comes at a time of concerns for the quality and safety of Chinaâs food and drug system.
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A New Jersey man who pleaded guilty to murder after his lawyer and prosecutors mistakenly told him that he risked being executed if he didn't confess isn't entitled to a new trial, a federal appeals court ruled.
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Three months ago, the Supreme Court issued an opinion that seemed to outlaw the way much of the nation sentences criminals. Then they went on
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The judge said the juror had improperly learned some information about the case outside of the courtroom.
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The state wrongly confined sex offenders in psychiatric facilities after their prison terms, the court ruled.
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Part 2: A welfare mother has been in a Wisconsin jail for seven months to protect her child. Is she or the judge to blame?
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Thomas Coughlin, who was sentenced to home detention after pleading guilty to five counts of wire fraud and one count of filing false tax returns, got off too light, an appeals court ruled.
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A federal judge who ruled in 2005 that Californiaâs broken prison medical care system amounted to cruel and unusual punishment dismissed the receiver who had been appointed to repair the system.
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The Supreme Court Monday cast doubt on the constitutionality of guidelines that federal judges use in sentencing offenders.
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Prison guards claim state officials lied to the U.S. Supreme Court about racial segregation in California's prisons and the extent to which race is used to set prison policies, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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New York's highest court ruled Tuesday that the state wrongly confined convicted sex offenders in psychiatric facilities after their prison sentences ended.
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By Julia Reynolds, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 13--Juries are prejudiced by seeing defendants wearing prison garb and shackles, the Sixth District Court of Appeals said Tuesday in its reversal of a 26-year sentence handed down in Monterey County Superior Court.
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Calling her untruthful, selfish and a "ticking bomb on our roads," a Montgomery County judge sent a 59-year-old woman in a wheelchair to jail after a jury convicted her of vehicular manslaughter and negligent driving charges.
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States' compensation for wrongful imprisonment ranges from zero to millions of dollars.
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Why a Supreme Court ruling on sentencing guidelines puts more power back on the bench
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Motorists who cause death on the roads could avoid jail under new official sentencing guidelines