Gail Atwater and her two young children were driving home from soccer practice in March 1997 when they realized that a rubber bat that was usually affixed to the window of their pickup truck was ...

What is a typical case in the American criminal justice system? If you listen to Donald Trump's tales of "American carnage" or watch the news coming out of Chicago or Baltimore, you might be tempted ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office will no longer prosecute a range of misdemeanor crimes, from resisting arrest to drug possession to making criminal threats, ...

One day after oral arguments in a high-stakes battle over whether a corporation must comply with laws and regulations that violate the religious beliefs of the family that owns the company, the ...

Jurors swore they could still be impartial after observing the complaining witness purportedly chase the defendant, screaming, into City Hall. Illustration by Neil Ballard Not quite three short hours ...

Just before Christmas, Janice Dotson-Stephens died in a San Antonio jail. The 61-year-old grandmother had been arrested for trespassing, a class B misdemeanor in Texas. She couldn’t afford the $300 ...

This week marks the beginning of the trial of Derek Chauvin, one of the four Minnesota police officers accused of involvement in the outrageous killing of George Floyd last year. After a grocery store ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A new Louisiana law aimed at raising fines for misdemeanor DWIs could have an unexpected consequence: flooding courtrooms with jury trials. Signed by Gov. Jeff Landry last ...