Brandon Lowrey

Video showed a masked federal agent walking out of the gates of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Durango, Colorado. He stepped around a small line of protesters seated on the street and lumbered past a petite, gray-haired woman as she recorded him on her smartphone last month.

Texas voters have approved a constitutional amendment requiring judges to deny bail to defendants charged with certain violent crimes if they are shown to be a threat or flight risk during a pretrial hearing.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2021 sex trafficking conviction.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2021 sex trafficking conviction.

The California Supreme Court on Thursday reversed the convictions of a prisoner on Death Row, saying developments in legislation and case law defining gang involvement have invalidated his death sentence.

A Texas prosecutor "went too far" by telling jurors in a punishment trial that the defendant murdered his victim because he was prejudiced against Hispanic people, the state's highest criminal court has ruled, ordering a lower court to assess whether that comment could have led to a harsher sentence.

A Connecticut appellate panel vacated sexual assault convictions against a man accused of abusing his former girlfriend's children and granted him a new trial after finding his counsel failed to raise a statute of limitations defense, according to an opinion released Friday.

A Connecticut appellate panel vacated sexual assault convictions against a man accused of abusing his former girlfriend's children and granted him a new trial after finding his counsel failed to raise a statute of limitations defense, according to an opinion released Friday.

Charles "Tim" Laughlin spent 28 years working for the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System, taking the reins as executive director in 2021 before retiring and going into private practice this year. Despite Oklahoma's deeply conservative political climate and high incarceration statistics, he managed to secure more funding for the public defense system and win support for policies to help low-income criminal defendants.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday ruled that defendants facing only fines can be eligible for pretrial habeas corpus relief, saying complaints, preliminary convictions and appellate bonds can constitute "restraint" under state law.