So-called switches, which turn handguns into automatic weapons that can fire 20 bullets a second, are "beyond terrifying," Judge Iain Johnston warns.

The former state attorney general discusses the latest recommendations from the Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission, which he chairs, and other legal issues.

The government agency responsible for implementing federal sentencing policy has taken the first step toward loosening controversial methamphetamine trafficking punishments that have flooded prisons ...

Professor Alison Siegler, Founding Director of the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, had an opportunity to help shape the future of federal drug sentencing policy by participating in a distinguished ...

A Calgary judge handed down a seven-year prison sentence to an investment advisor who bought more than $6 million of a ...

Victim impact statements, a pre-sentencing report on King's history and a jailhouse interview he did in July 2022 are included as part of the sentencing submissions. Crown prosecutor Moiz ...

According to the United States Sentencing Commission, since October 2019, 34,037 motions for compassionate release have been filed across the United States. In Fiscal Year 2024 alone, 2,901 such ...

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his historic hush money case to an unconditional discharge -- allowing ...

Justice Juan Merchan's sentencing of Trump ... to the office "do not reduce the seriousness of a crime or justify its commission in any way." "The considerable, indeed extraordinary, legal ...

Today, the conservative-dominated panel announced it won’t block the president-elect’s sentencing in his New York criminal trial. Trump was convicted in his hush-money case in May. He was ...

Now that the sentencing is over, Americans wonder if this could affect the Republican president-elect’s upcoming term. Since Trump unsuccessfully requested a delay in his sentencing, voters are ...