Georgia remains the only state where it must be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the highest standard of proof in law.

A new bill introduced in the Georgia House of Representatives would make it easier for attorneys to prove their client has an intellectual disability.

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Sir William Blackstone famously said that it is "better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer." The ...

A Memphis man, Bradley Robert Dawson, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife during their honeymoon in ...

A St. Louis jury has awarded nearly $19 million to the family of a Black man who was shot and killed by police a decade ago. Mansur Ball-Bey was fatally ...

Trooper Michael Proctor, who was suspended without pay in the wake of Read's mistrial, appeared before the trial board at ...

A police officer in upstate New York will not face criminal charges after hitting and killing a new father with his patrol ...

A well-known New Zealand musician has been found guilty on two charges relating to domestic violence, but not guilty on nine ...

Danielle Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney in Manhattan, has resigned after the Justice Department ordered her to drop the ...

Prosecutor Colleen Smith made the comments as she delivered the Crown's closing arguments in the second-degree murder trial of 54-year-old Brent White.