With just over a month to go until Donald Trump’s scheduled July 11 sentencing hearing, a legal expert told Salon the former president’s lack of remorse and findings of contempt could be grounds for a ...

A recent appellate decision noted just how difficult it is to get compassionate release from federal prison even where there ...

Federal sentences for meth trafficking crimes are much longer than those for other, deadlier drugs. And nowhere are those meth sentences longer than in the Northern District of Texas, which serves the ...

During a criminal trial in the United States, an impartial jury is selected to determine the innocence or guilt of the defendant; however, it is not within their power to determine how to punish the ...

UPDATE (Feb. 25, 4:31 p.m. PT) — The jury in the Jeremy Christian trial is slated to return to the courtroom Tuesday afternoon for the beginning of a two-day "sentence enhancement" hearing, during ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The jury that unanimously convicted Jeremy Christian on all 12 charges in the MAX attack also reached a unanimous conclusion on enhanced factors that Judge Cheryl Albrecht can ...