Courts & Law

The lawyer who represented the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown says there is “legalized genocide” in U.S. He talked about his new book at WHYY.

Poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts talks about how his years in prison lead him to poetry and criminal justice reform.

An elaborate embezzlement scheme involved funneling seniors’ funds through a shell company and a church where two of the three defendants were pastors.

Almost a year after lines opened, residents will say the project remains a risk to public safety.

Madinah Brown says Delaware youth rehabilitation officials discriminated against her. State officials counter that wearing hijab at work puts her at risk.

Two Old City business owners intentionally set the massive 2018 fire that shut down the 200 block of Chestnut Street, federal authorities charged.

A jury has found Michael White not guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the 2018 fatal stabbing of real estate developer Sean Schellenger in Rittenhouse Square.

Why there could be more cases like Willy Veasy's as the Philly DA's office investigates allegations of coerced confessions and bad convictions.

An ICE spokesman confirmed their deportation to the United Kingdom in a statement Wednesday evening.

A video, the second this month, emerged showing white Chester Township police officers arresting a black man for loitering in front of his own property.

The lawsuit claims that N.J. Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has endangered the public safety of the county by restricting its ability to communicate with law enforcement.

The largest-ever federal action related to the U.S. opioid crisis is on the cusp of its first trial next week — and it's complicated.

The face of refugees coming to the U.S. is changing. The places they're going is changing, too. Why is that happening and what does it look like in Pennsylvania?

Michael White told a Philadelphia jury on Tuesday that he stabbed real estate developer Sean Schellenger, but never wanted to kill him.

Newark Police arrested a suspect in the decades-old case after using DNA evidence and an ancestry-type website to identify the alleged attacker.