The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down an effort by a Texas inmate to invalidate his convictions using new evidence that he says could clear him. In a unanimous decision by Justice Ketanji Brown ...
Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...
NEW YORK, NY - A New York driving while intoxicated conviction creates consequences extending far beyond courtroom ...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Monday signed an executive order pardoning more than 175,000 marijuana convictions, the governor’s office said. Moore signed the executive order in Annapolis with state ...
U.S. attorneys in New Mexico and Texas are announcing some of the first convictions against migrants who crossed into newly created military zones along the southern border -- a tactic by the Trump ...
The Supreme Court of Maryland last week ordered a do-over of the hearing that freed Adnan Syed, whose case gained international notoriety with the “Serial” podcast, but what happens next depends on a ...
NPR's Michel Martin talks to Gov. Wes Moore about absolving people convicted of cannabis-related crimes, in what he calls “the most sweeping state level pardon in any state in American history.” ...
State prosecutors agreed Thursday to vacate convictions of a man imprisoned decades ago as a serial rapist after an alarming series of developments repudiated genetic or DNA crime scene evidence and ...
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers this week filed a bill to expunge federal convictions for low-level marijuana crimes. The legislation, dubbed the Marijuana Misdemeanor Expungement Act, was introduced ...
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