Vusimusi "Cat" Matlala could have given evidence against senior police officials in a $22m graft case.

Derek Pixley had accepted a plea deal to plead guilty to reckless homicide instead of murder. The judge rejected that plea ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three corrections officers allegedly involved in the death of Robert Brooks have turned down plea bargains offered by the ...

The Supreme Court issued an important criminal justice ruling on Thursday about the appropriate bounds of plea bargains. In an 8–1 opinion written by Justice Elena Kagan, the court held that some plea ...

When celebrities face criminal charges, their decision-making process often diverges dramatically from that of ordinary defendants. While over 90% of criminal cases in the American justice system end ...

Behind the constitutional guarantee of trial by jury lies a shadowy reality of American criminal justice: the vast majority of federal criminal cases never reach a courtroom. Instead, they end in plea ...

Nicholas Gentile was charged with tampering with evidence and plead down to the lesser charge of attempted tampering with physical evidence. Gentile admitting to cleaning up blood after the brutal ...

A: Here in California, and across the land, a judge can reject a plea bargain in a criminal case. There are a number of factors that may result in the plea agreement being rejected: (a) A victim’s ...

On July 31, a letter from the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Prosecutor for Military Commissions conveyed a disheartening message: The U.S. government had reached a plea bargain with ...