A former special prosecutor in Illinois who filed charges against the state’s attorney in McHenry County has agreed to pay $157,500 to settle a wrongful prosecution suit.
Two middle school students in Granbury, Texas, have been arrested based on accusations they created a fake Facebook page for a 12-year-old classmate that harmed her reputation.
Updated: Following news reports Wednesday about a package of material that may have been mailed to a psychiatrist by a graduate student subsequently accused of killing 10 people during a…
When former Bolingbrook, Ill., police officer Drew Peterson goes on trial next week for the murder of his third wife, the jurors will come from a pool first selected in…
Some judges appear to be acting as social workers or agents of public retribution when they impose unusual pretrial conditions on a defendant’s release, according to two law professors who…
If the city of Harpersville, Ala., intends to jail an individual for failing to pay a fine, it will first have to persuade Shelby County Judge Hub Harrington of the…
Lawsuits in Alabama and Georgia are challenging the jailing of poor people who can’t afford to pay fines for minor infractions and the much larger fees charged by private probation…
After serving time for robbery, Sharon Dietrich’s client Ameen Muqtadir was released from a Pennsylvania prison in 2002. Nine years later, he was ensnared in a sweep launched by the Philadelphia court system to collect up to $1.5 billion in unpaid criminal files and costs. Photo by Bill Cramer.
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