ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Welcome ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced in his federal criminal case on Oct. 3. A judge confirmed the schedule on Tuesday after ...

A decade after Indiana overhauled its criminal code to reduce incarceration, lawmakers approved more than a dozen new crimes ...

Editor’s note: The Carson City District Attorney’s Office provides the Appeal with monthly sentencing reports for serious crimes when available. On May 12, Lyle Mills appeared for sentencing on the ...

Season 2 of Criminal Code (Netflix) begins with an even bigger bang than the explosive jailbreak that ended Season 1. That’s because Isaac (Alex Nader), criminal mastermind of the Ghost Gang ...

Trump wanted federal Manhattan Judge Alvin Hellerstein to take the hush money case out of state Judge Juan Merchan's hands ahead of the Sept. 18 sentencing date, claiming Merchan is biased and a ...

Today I made a filing for the victims' families in the criminal case against Boeing, flagging an important point about how the new Administration's approach to criminal sentencing should lead to a ...

WASHINGTON − A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump's request to block Friday's sentencing in his New York hush-money criminal case, guaranteeing that Trump ...

Why does the US have so many people—2.3 million Americans—in prison? Why does the US have so many people in prison—2.3 million Americans at an estimated cost of $80 billion a year ...

The Supreme Court didn’t help Donald Trump … this time. The court’s 5-4 decision Thursday to deny the president-elect’s last-minute effort to delay sentencing in his New York hush money ...

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday evening cleared the way for President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing to go forward on Friday morning. In a brief unsigned order issued just after 7 p.m., ...

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision on Thursday refused President-elect Trump’s request to halt his criminal sentencing, now just hours away, closing off Trump’s last remaining pathway to ...