Courts & Law

A Monmouth County man was convicted Thursday of animal cruelty for leaving a caged dog in a New Jersey bay, prosecutors announced. 

Prosecutors believe the pending cases could gut Pennsylvania’s law, allowing sexually violent predators to evade detection and endangering public safety.

The attorney general said the directives will mean greater transparency in an era of increased scrutiny of the criminal justice system.

The N.J. Department of Corrections has come under fire from criminal justice and public health advocates who say its policy of targeted screening for the virus falls short.

A petition seeks big changes to the grievance arbitration process for city cops.

It reflects what the industry says is a rush by people to buy weapons in reaction to the Democratic presidential candidates' calls for tighter restrictions.

Council President Hanifa Shabazz had said she felt threatened by Dion Wilson’s remarks. Police charged him, but a prosecutor dropped the charges.

Two former high-ranking officials with a New Jersey youth baseball league who played in the Little League World Series two years ago have admitted stealing league funds.

Those charged include employees from the international security firm Tiger Swan.

Victims who were previously barred from suing because they didn’t act during the allotted time period now have a two-year window to file claims.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the SDNY and FBI investigators are making their way through what prosecutor Douglas Zolkind called a "voluminous" amount of evidence in the case

Attorneys at the Defender Association of Philadelphia say unionization will help them better serve clients in criminal court.

Any sexual abuse survivor, abused at any time in N.J., can sue their abuser even if previously blocked by statute of limitations, for the next two years.

When Pennsylvania overhauled its child sexual abuse laws after a years-long battle, absent from the bill-signing ceremony were some of the people who had worked hard.

Carmela Apolonio Hernandez has been living in sanctuary for almost two years since ICE tried to deport her family. She begins fasting today in protest.