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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, ...

Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters charged with storming the U.S. Capitol have faced the same choice in the three years since the attack: either admit their guilt and accept the consequences or take ...

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 ...

Relatives of a man killed in a Grand Bend stabbing weren’t happy to hear the killer get just eight years in prison. Zachary Hartman, 27, of Exeter, was fatally stabbed by Stratford’s Michael Compton, ...

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 ...