As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden drafted the Senate version of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement ...

On Jan. 10 — just 10 days before Trump’s inauguration — New York Justice Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to an “unconditional ...

PM’s spokesman confirms commitment to UN children’s rights convention after calls for Southport attacker never to be released ...

Convicted of 34 felony counts in his hush money case, Donald Trump could have faced severe consequences. Each of the felony counts of falsifying business records was punishable by up to four years ...

Criminal Justice Advocates made great strides under Trump with the First Step Act. In a second Trump term, they are poised to ...

Kemba Smith Pradia was convicted of a non-violent drug offense in 1994 and served 6.5 years of a 24-year sentence. She says ...

View a timeline of the quarter-century of legal twists in the case of Adnan Syed since he was arrested in the killing of Hae ...

Trump’s sentence doesn’t affect my opinion on the criminal justice system. I’ve already come to the realization, mainly through education, that the law isn’t designed to punish people like him. It is ...

said that Mr. Trump had “caused enduring damage to public perception of the criminal justice system.” Still, Mr. Steinglass said, prosecutors had recommended a sentence of unconditional ...

"Everyone is acting like a sentence if unconditional discharge is normal or that prosecutors asking for that doesn't also cause 'damage to the public perception of the criminal justice system,'" he ...

President-elect Donald Trump spoke for six minutes. The judge talked for seven. In the end, the first criminal court sentencing of a former or future president took little more than half an hour.