Our criminal justice system simply does not have the resources to hold a trial for every case, so the great majority of criminal cases are resolved through a negotiation process known as “plea ...

In a pair of recent decisions - Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v. Frye - the U.S. Supreme Court held that criminal defendants have the right to effective assistance of counsel during the ...

Sterling Biotech, an Indian pharmaceutical company, was recently subject to multiple allegations of loan fraud, ultimately ...

A: Here in California, and across the land, a judge can reject a plea bargain in a criminal case. There are a number of factors that may result in the plea agreement being rejected: (a) A victim’s ...

Behind the constitutional guarantee of trial by jury lies a shadowy reality of American criminal justice: the vast majority of federal criminal cases never reach a courtroom. Instead, they end in plea ...

In 2006, George Alvarez was charged with assaulting a prison guard while awaiting trial on public intoxication. He knew he didn’t do it — the guards actually jumped him — but the ten year mandatory ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke for the first time Tuesday on his decision to throw out a plea deal for the men accused in al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks. (Susan Walsh/AP) Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ...