California was also sued over claims it failed to provide competent defense. To settle the lawsuit, filed in Fresno County, ...

David Lira pleaded guilty to defying a Chicago judge’s order to distribute settlement funds to widows and orphans of an ...

HUNDREDS OF INCARCERATED PEOPLE at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center are bracing themselves for unexpected transfers to other facilities and many are ...

Breakthroughs in DNA technology continue to bring resolution to decades-old cases once considered unsolvable. Techniques like ...

Jurors started deliberating Thursday in Harvey Weinstein 's New York sex crimes retrial, tasked with deciding - again - a case that encapsulated the #MeToo movement.

Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper and District Attorney Thien Ho are calling for reforms to California's mental health ...

A CalMatters investigation finds that Californians are routinely convicted of crimes without anyone investigating the charges against them.

The California State Assembly passed Assembly Bill 1231, which would allow judges to offer pretrial diversion for people ...

Hundreds of people convicted of murder in California didn't kill anyone. They were handed long sentences because they drove a getaway car or kicked down a door in a robbery that ended in murder -- and ...

Hasan Korkmaz, 44, of Las Vegas, the owner and operator of San Diego Logistics Group Inc., a Santee trucking company, was arraigned in federal court today on an 18-count indictment charging him with ...

The victim’s father said if the driver came forward, he would forgive them. “Leaving my son to die is not sitting well with ...