In a closely watched case for criminal-justice reform advocates, the highest court of Massachusetts unanimously found nothing improper about requiring that a person remain drug-free as a condition of probation.
Read moreClarifying rules on the execution of European arrest warrants, a magistrate said Thursday that courts must make specific inquiries into whether the person being extradited is at risk of justice abuses.
Read moreDissecting an outdated federal communications privacy law crafted decades before the birth of social media, California’s high court Thursday opened the door for defense lawyers to pry certain types of user content from companies like Facebook and Twitter in criminal cases.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of the state’s money bail system, granting review late Wednesday to the case of Kenneth Humphrey, whose $350,000 bail led to an appellate court ruling requiring judges to consider a person’s ability to pay when setting bail.
Read moreA Colorado bill encouraging 10,000 parolees to vote passed the House Committee on State, Veterans and Military Affairs on Thursday.
Read moreA group of black and Latino men anonymously filed a class action Tuesday claiming the New York City Police Department illegally kept and accessed their sealed arrest reports even though they were never convicted.
Read moreProtesters who face criminal charges for attempting to shut down two oil pipelines are allowed to present a “necessity defense,” a Minnesota Court of Appeals judge ruled Monday.
Read moreMeek Mill, a rapper whose imprisonment has served as a lightning rod for protests against the criminal-justice system in Philadelphia, will get a new trial, prosecutors said Monday.
Read moreTaken for granted in the United States, people across the European Union now enjoy the presumption of innocence and the rights to remain silent and be present at criminal proceedings after new rules took effect this week.
Read moreOn the 112th anniversary of a lynching that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s only criminal trial, the group behind a public art installation remembering a black man killed by a mob announced the finalist Monday for the memorial that will stand near where he died.
Read moreIn a state with the country’s lowest literacy rates and largest prison populations, lawmakers and nonprofit workers gathered at an auction block in downtown Atlanta last week to change that narrative.
Read moreAn immigrant who was sentenced for illegal re-entry based on a miscalculated recommendation courted sympathy Wednesday from the Supreme Court.
Read moreThe Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a broad, bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, sending it to an uncertain future before the full Senate.
Read moreSenator John Cornyn, R-Texas, the number two-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate, said Thursday he does not see a path forward during the Trump administration for a sweeping bipartisan criminal justice reform bill a being prepared for consideration next week.
Read moreA prior conviction for carjacking in California can no longer serve as the sole basis for deporting an immigrant with legal permanent resident status, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday.
Read moreAttracting protesters to his appearance in Baltimore, Attorney General Jeff Sessions railed against the Salvadoran street gang MS-13 on Tuesday and warned Americans of a crime wave.
Read moreThousands of troops staged a military parade Friday to celebrate Romania’s national day, but key politicians didn’t attend, signaling tensions between the president and the ruling left-wing coalition over plans to revamp the country’s justice system.
Read moreEfforts to reform the Massachusetts criminal-justice system cleared another hurdle as the state House passed an omnibus bill on the heels of a version passed by the Senate.
Read moreA national effort is launching to help low-income defendants get out of jail by bailing them out as their criminal cases progress through the courts.
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California’s sluggishness on bail reform has earned the state a failing grade in pretrial justice, according to a report released Wednesday by the nonprofit Pretrial Justice Institute.
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