The prosecutor rarely holds officers accountable.

District Attorney Jackie Lacey chose not to prosecute officer

Jail isn’t the “appropriate place” for all that get arrested, he says

Last, month the Nevada Supreme Court threw out the death sentence of Julius Bradford after defense attorneys raised concerns that his trial was marred by the illegal exclusion of minority jurors.

A pattern of scandals, misconduct, and federal reversals seem to plague the state’s district attorneys.

Former business partner of Nico LaHood will run against him after LaHood threatened to shut down his law practice

Court watchers believe Justices will side with plaintiff

Retired Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, Katherine, a deputy prosecutor, have been arrested on multiple federal charges, including conspiracy, making false statements to federal officers, obstruction and bank fraud.

Community members are cautiously optimistic, but wary of the program’s emergence during election season.

Will the state with the second highest incarceration rate get its act together?

The City Controller’s report calls on the DA’s office to “dismantle the current cash bail system”

A law that results in disproportionate arrests and prosecutions of black and Latino New Yorkers will stand.

U.S. Attorney says the evidence against him is “overwhelming”

Do these so-called “john schools” actually hurt women more than help them?

“It is so loud inside my head. It feels like electrical impulses are going through my head all the time. If you took that pen and tapped it on the table I can feel it all the way down my spinal column. It is so loud inside my head.”

I am going to switch it up today. Instead of giving you this week’s stories of horrible injustice, which Lord knows there is a long list of those stories to tell this week, I want us to have a serious conversation about how we make change happen in this country.

A movement to oust Cyrus Vance gains steam.

A movement to oust Cyrus Vance gains steam.

A local solution to a national problem.

In this Oregon capital case, it could ensure that the state doesn’t execute the wrong man.

It was July of 2004 in Oklahoma City, and Brenda Andrew was on trial for killing her husband. The prosecutor had been speaking for two and a half hours, and he was wrapping up the closing argument by reading from Rob Andrew’s diary about his wife’s infidelity: “The first time was when I drove to her school in Kansas to surprise her and I found out she had spent the night in her old boyfriend’s dorm room. Second time was during the summer when she was teaching at summer camp she met a new boyfriend and then kept dating him on the side while we were engaged.”