A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that the U.S. Sentencing Commission lacked authority to enact a policy last year that ...

Stewart said Bennet Wright, the executive director of the Alabama Sentencing Commission, will help lead that area of the ...

Efforts to end minimum mandatory sentences for non-violent drug offenders in New Jersey are again being put on the table, three years after a similar proposal was conditionally vetoed by Gov. Phil ...

The guidelines, drafted at a meeting of the Supreme Court’s sentencing commission on Friday, are the top court’s first formal framework for animal abuse crimes, a court spokesperson told local ...

Under the previous rule, a defendant who was convicted of one charge but acquitted of another could still face punishment for ...

An Indiana man waited until after he’d won election to his local county commission to plead guilty in a sexual assault case ...

A New York Supreme Court justice will decide Tuesday if President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing will move forward later ...

The median sentence for a federal child porn crime nationwide is seven years and more than nine years in Michigan, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Subscribers:Royal Oak youth ...

The receipts are for gold bars that she purchased after scammers convinced her that her bank account was hacked. A grand total of $433,279.53 was taken from the Prescott, Wisconsin, woman, mainly from ...

President-elect Trump is set to be sentenced on November 26, and there is a huge media push to allow photographers and ...

Significant amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines, approved by the US Sentencing Commission in April, take effect Friday. Under the new guidelines, acquitted conduct is excluded from the ...

Testimony in the sentencing phase of the federal case regarding the the ... Wednesday morning's testimony also revealed TPC ...