As former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner begins his controversial six-month jail sentence for sexual assault, many are asking whether privilege was a factor in the judge's decision. In a statement to ...

Last Wednesday in Setser v. United States, the Court held that federal district judges have authority to direct that a criminal sentence be served consecutively or concurrently to a state sentence, ...

No juvenile who commits murder or another serious crime can be sentenced to life without parole unless it is clear that the youth is doomed to a life of crime — that is, is so “corrupt” as to lack any ...

Federal judges in New York City gave dozens of lighter prison sentences during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, often citing brutal conditions in Manhattan and Brooklyn jails as the reason, an ...

Federal judges handed down dozens of lighter sentences due to brutal conditions in New York City’s federal jails during the coronavirus pandemic, new statistics obtained by the Daily News show. A ...