Justice Berdon implored his colleagues not to place a confession on the same level as any other evidential ruling during the ...

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.

In the absence of any firm or consistent evidence, the Supreme Court has acquitted a 69-year-old woman who was booked in 2005 ...

Data shows that most individuals charged with a crime are found guilty. Estimates indicate that about 90% of criminal cases ...

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

We conclude that the evidence admitted in the record was sufficient to sustain a finding beyond a reasonable doubt by the ...

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

A case had been registered by the Thane police in 2017, alleging that the accused had allegedly raped the victim. The case ...

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

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 ...