Dewayne Johnson II received the highest possible sentence of 23 years in prison for killing his wife and unborn child. But ...

A Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy will serve four months in prison on a misdemeanor conviction for using excessive force after ...

A proposed plea agreement that would allow Shelia Haney, former executive director of the Allen County Regional Transit ...

Luis Rivera, one of two convicted hitmen in the murder of FSU Professor Dan Markel, will soon be released from federal prison.

The Supreme Court (SC) announced on Tuesday updated guidelines on plea bargaining in drug-related cases. In a decision penned ...

The Supreme Court has updated plea bargaining guidelines in drug cases requiring the prosecution to raise all grounds for ...

Prosecutors handling plea bargaining in drug cases must present all their objections when an accused offers to plead guilty to a lesser crime, the Supreme Court ruled. Failure to raise all objections ...

Under the “agreement in principle,” which still needs to be finalized, Boeing would pay or invest more than $1.1 billion, ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The new interim U.S. attorney in Los Angeles is offering a plea deal to a sheriff's deputy caught on camera slamming a woman to the ground who was the suspect in a robbery.

Essayli’s proposed plea deal is deeply troubling. The felony charge would be downgraded to a misdemeanor: That would drop Kirk’s maximum term of incarceration to a single year. But the ...

Several federal prosecutors — including the chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section — have submitted their resignations following a plea deal offered by the new U.S. attorney ...

While over 90% of criminal cases in the American justice system end in plea bargains, high-profile figures frequently reject these offers, choosing instead to fight charges through full trials ...