Eric Sweeney’s three sentences of 60 years to life in the killing of his sister-in-law and his two young nephews inside their Northfield home in 2022 will stand after being affirmed by the state’s ...

OF INTERFERE WITH CUSTODY. ON MAY 9TH, ADAM MONTGOMERY APPEARED IN COURT FOR HIS SENTENCING AFTER DECIDING NOT TO BE IN COURT FOR HIS TRIAL. IN SENTENCING MONTGOMERY, JUDGE AMY MESSER TOLD HIM HE HAD ...

PROVIDENCE – State lawmakers are once again weighing a proposal that would allow people serving long sentences to ask a judge for a “second look” at their punishment after 10 years. Matching ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Some prisoners serving life sentences under Alabama’s habitual offender law could see their punishments reviewed under legislation that advanced Tuesday. The Alabama House of ...

OF INTERFERE WITH CUSTODY. ON MAY 9TH, ADAM MONTGOMERY APPEARED IN COURT FOR HIS SENTENCING AFTER DECIDING NOT TO BE IN COURT FOR HIS TRIAL. IN SENTENCING MONTGOMERY, JUDGE AMY MESSER TOLD HIM HE HAD ...

Ohio's criminal sentencing system allows trial court judges to give people convicted of multiple crimes sentences that run either concurrently or consecutively. This can swing prison time from a few ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court in mid-February granted a petition asking it to consider whether the mandatory sentence for murder in the second degree — life without parole — is unconstitutional under ...

While one of us works with a religious organization and the other is a public defender, we have both become intimately familiar with the system of criminal punishment in Michigan. We each spend much ...

The Pennsylvania Su­­preme on Tuesday denied further review of attempts by a former Altoona man seeking a reduction in his 31-to-46-year prison sentence for drug-related offenses. Charles A. Bellon, ...

A Central Criminal Court judge has accepted that he cannot review the sentence he imposed on one of the two men who murdered schoolgirl Ana Kriegel when they were just 13 years old. The case of Boy B, ...