U.S. District Judge Thomas Barber sentenced Jonathan Rok Thyng, 48, to probation and 100 hours of community service. In July, ...

A draft of new sentencing guidelines unveiled on Monday calls for tougher penalties for severe and repeated cases of animal cruelty, a move widely seen as a push to end a long era of leniency in ...

HO CHI MINH CITY — The appeal of a Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death for fraud totaling $27 billion began on Monday after she pleaded for a more "lenient and humane" sentence. Property ...

The letter from Stinson's mother was part of his sentencing hearing Friday. The 29-year-old was found guilty earlier this year of three counts of first-degree murder and one count of arson causing ...

Significant amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines, approved by the US Sentencing Commission in April, take effect Friday. Under the new guidelines, acquitted conduct is excluded from the ...

2022,” prosecutor Danielle Sassoon wrote in a letter to the judge. “Ellison approached her cooperation with remarkable candor, remorse, and seriousness.” Prosecutors declined to make a specific ...

The former president has already twice successfully delayed his sentencing past Election Day on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election by hiding a hush ...

If he loses, he could face swift sentencing in one case and trials in the other three. If Trump were not a candidate for president, his legal trouble would be unavoidable. He is scheduled to be ...

A woman caught driving with meth in her system has been shown leniency by the court after a "compelling" letter she wrote to the magistrate.

Maxwell, 60, “cannot and should not bear all the punishment for which Epstein should have been held responsible,” her lawyers wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed in Manhattan federal court.

"If, as has been reported, China successfully executes even a 'grab sample' at Mars and returns it safely to Earth before the U.S., that would constitute a 'Sputnik Moment.'" It appears that China ...