Courts & Law

Miya Ponsetto, 22, was jailed Thursday in Ventura County, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office there said. It wasn't immediately clear what charges she might face.

The first step to quelling an insurrection is installing a competent government, said author and Navy veteran Malcolm Nance.

The U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement that Officer Brian D. Sicknick was injured “while physically engaging with protesters" during the Wednesday riot.

Attorney Liliana Zaragoza said the Capitol riots revealed that law enforcement “can refrain from using force when they choose.”

A Pa. Trump supporter was one of the few insurrectionists arrested Wednesday for storming the nation’s capital in an attempt to disrupt the 2020 election.

Merrick Garland is likely best known as a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court who was refused even a hearing by Senate Republicans.

Charles Ramsay joined CNN Wednesday afternoon as chaos unfolded in the nation’s capital.

The conviction rates for nonfatal shootings and illegal gun possession are decidedly low in Philadelphia. One of the problems: Witnesses aren’t showing up to court.

A Wisconsin prosecutor has declined to file criminal charges against a white police officer who shot a Black man in the back last summer.

According to the ACLU, from 2008 to 2018, Montgomery County Court overcharged defendants by hundreds of dollars in nearly 13,000 cases.

Montco NORML and TerraVida VOWD teamed to put refurbished newspaper bins filled with pardon applications across the county. Two are in place, with more coming.

Federal prosecutors say in court filings that Barry Croft Jr. is a “violent extremist” and that releasing him would be "unreasonable."

Will a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy soon be a thing of the past?

I worked hard to destroy the mindset and behavior that led me to prison. Two of the reasons for my change in lifestyle were Dennis and Lee Horton.