April 24--An arsonist who got a 15-year prison sentence for a 2010 blaze that injured six Detroit firefighters and paralyzed a seventh could get a lighter sentence ...

During Wednesday's hearing, Effingham County Superior Court Judge William Woodrum Jr. ordered the sentence changed to kidnapping after finding that the jury was not properly instructed in the ...

A man serving life in prison for murder has lost after appealing his sentence because of a paperwork error by a clerk. A New Jersey appeals court ruled Wednesday that ...

Last Monday, the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the Middle District of Florida’s sentence of probation for former physician Nicole Bramwell in a $4.4 million Tricare fraud case was substantively ...

Criminal law - Application for leave to appeal - Sentencing - Principles to be applied - Accused sentenced to five years in respect of child pornography - Whether trial judge erred in sentences ...

A legal technicality allowed Raymond M. Johnson to work out a deal Monday for a reduced sentence in the 2014 fatal shooting of a man in a South Side duplex. Johnson, 37, had been serving a life ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...