Crime and Courts

A Manhattan judge chose a sentence that sidestepped thorny constitutional issues to end the case but assures Trump will become the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency.

A judge can sentence a defendant to unconditional discharge. What does that mean and how often is it used?

In a singular moment in U.S. history, President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Like so much else in the criminal case and the current American political landscape, the scenario set to unfold in an austere Manhattan courtroom was unimaginable only a few years ago. A state judge...

Judge Juan Merchan isn’t going to sentence Donald Trump to jail before he takes office.

Actor Alec Baldwin has filed a civil lawsuit for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie “Rust.”

No two trials are the same — and it appears that’ll be true for the high-profile Karen Read case as well.

The latest hearings in the Karen Read case are giving us a look at how her retrial may play out. 

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A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to delay his sentencing in his hush money case in New York.

A judge has ruled that a Wisconsin woman who stabbed her sixth grade classmate to please horror character Slender Man can be released from a psychiatric hospital.

The former director of elder services for Quincy, Massachusetts, embezzled thousands of dollars from the city through “personal indulgences” like 153 lbs. of steak tips and using city funds as a “personal slush fund,” federal officials said Wednesday.

Federal authorities executed a search warrant Tuesday in St. Louis in connection with an investigation in Puerto Rico of a tourist accused of setting businesses on fire last week.

Prosecutors say the 36-year-old Santos has earned more than $400,000 from appearances on Cameo, the video-sharing website, and another $400,000 from a new documentary.

Authorities have shared new information about the hourslong armed standoff in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood early Monday morning, including that the suspect held his mother, father and grandmother hostage in a bedroom. Andres Rivera, 42, appeared in West Roxbury District Court Tuesday, where he was held without bail on a slew of charges including armed home invasion, assault with a...

A Miramar woman who laundered millions of dollars that were stolen in romance scams was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison, authorities said.

An ex-gang leader is filing to dismiss all the charges against him in the killing of rap music icon Tupac Shakur decades ago, citing constitutional violations.

The man accused of being drunk when his car struck and killed NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and brother Matthew as they biked near their South Jersey hometown the night before their sister was to be married pleaded not guilty in court on Tuesday morning. Prosecutors have offered a plea deal.

A defense expert in the Karen Read case spent hours on the stand Tuesday explaining and defending her work on dog bite analysis ahead of Read’s second trial later this year. Read is accused of hitting her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow in Canton, Massachusetts, outside the home...

Four San Diego State University fraternity members pleaded not guilty Monday to criminal charges stemming from a skit that allegedly involved intentionally setting one of the defendants on fire, causing him to suffer third-degree burns.

A driver is now facing a murder charge over a four-vehicle crash that left a man dead in Lakeville, Massachusetts, last year, prosecutors announced Monday. David DeLorenzo, 74, was indicted Friday by a grand jury on charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle, homicide by motor vehicle while under the influence, assault and battery with a deadly...

The alleged incident is said to have occurred while the Grammy-nominated artist was on tour in Detroit in April, the lawsuit said.