The sentence handed down by Judge Juan Merchan to Trump means that he will not face jail time nor will he be forced to pay a fine for his crimes. The fact that Trump got no real punishment despite ...

A commutation is a legal process that reduces a criminal sentence without overturning the conviction, often granted for ...

The action, aimed at inmates who received harsher sentences based on old disparities in drug laws, is the broadest ...

With Trump 10 days from inauguration, Judge Juan M. Merchan has indicated he plans a no-penalty sentence called an ...

The judge was well-aware that we bubble-wrap presidents and protect them from legal proceedings and sentences that could undermine their ability to do their jobs. This spared Trump from having to ...

Merchan also called out Trump’s legal team, members of which will likely ... “This court has determined that the only lawful sentence that permits entry of a judgment of conviction without ...

Deadline: White House” legal reporter and former prosecutor Jordan Rubin answers your questions about the Supreme Court, ...

Russia sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for sharing his messages from prison with the outside world.

President-elect Donald Trump was formally sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment ...