In most states, police can secure a warrant that enables them to enter a house without knocking or announcing themselves first. The...

Digital communication traces back to as early as 1844 when Samuel F.B. Morse sent a series of dots and dashes from Washington, D.C. to...

The jury has finally been selected for the trial of Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan for the killing of...

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data...

Crime has always been sensational. True crime books, movies, comics, and podcasts gather huge followings. And while the overwrought prose...

The District of Columbia Council set its first-ever hearing on a bill to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana. Chairman Phil...

For decades, lawmakers have justified “tough on crime” sentencing regimes by invoking the desires of crime survivors, particularly survivors

The United States is the only country in the world that sentences children under the age of eighteen to life imprisonment. Juvenile life...

In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, protests erupted in cities across the United States with the goal of reforming American pol

“[H]orse trading determines who goes to jail and for how long. That is what plea bargaining is. It is not some adjunct to the criminal...

The criminalization of mental illness has become increasingly common in the United States. A disproportionate number of mentally-ill...

In early 2019, Front Royal and surrounding Warren County, Virginia were rocked by allegations that the executive director of the Warren...

On March 24, 2021, Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., ended a 400-year run of the death penalty in Virginia, making it the first southern state...

As police departments’ roles are widened beyond their expertise, police are granted vast discretion to employ tactics of force, and there is

#StopAsianHate. #BlackLivesMatter. For a plethora of reasons, 2020 and 2021 so far have been the hardest and harshest times for many people,

The violent January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection is still fresh in our minds. As a veteran, I was particularly saddened and dismayed, yet al

On January 6, 2021, then President Trump exhorted a mob of his supporters to march on the Capitol building with a vague mission of “stopping

As COVID-19 continues to persist after hitting the year mark this March, trials have started to resume in courthouses across the country. Th

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in courts shutting down in-person appearances. Courts then turned to virtual proceedings as it continued. In

In an important first step to making substantial reform to the American criminal justice system, Illinois became the first state to abolish