Criminal Justice

A long-awaited resentencing hearing on Tuesday is set to determine whether two brothers who killed their wealthy parents in their Beverly Hills mansion could be freed from prison after three decades.

After months of delays, a judge will begin hearing two days of arguments both for and against Erik and Lyle Menendez's bid to receive a lesser sentence - which could ultimately lead to their paroled release.

Three former police officers in Memphis, Tenn., were acquitted of state charges on Wednesday, more than two years after they were accused of brutally beating Tyre Nichols and causing his death.

The jury found the three defendants — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, and Justin Smith — not guilty on all seven charges after deliberating for over eight hours. The charges included second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression. The trial was held in Memphis for nine days.

A whistleblower has come forward to confirm allegations brought by over 40 attorneys general that the nonprofit Polaris Project, contracted by the federal government to run the National Human Trafficking Hotline, routinely fails to pass along pertinent trafficking tips to law enforcement.

Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), wrote a letter Monday laying out the whistleblower disclosures to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., National Review has learned.

President Donald Trump said on May 4 that he is ordering the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay that closed more than six decades ago.

Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he wanted to reopen the prison to "house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders."

"The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE," he wrote.

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.

President Donald Trump directed the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reopen and rebuild Alcatraz prison to house the “most ruthless and violent” criminals.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump noted that when the United States was “a more serious Nation,” the government did not “hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals.”

New York leaders are drawing criticism, including from President Donald Trump, over a new law set to take effect Jan. 1 that will end cash bail in the state in most cases and will free inmates being held on low-level offenses as early as next month.

The law, approved as part of the state budget in March, doesn't officially start until 2020, but the state court system indicated in recent days that it will begin to stagger the release of inmates next month to avoid a crush of cases in January...

President Trump said on Saturday that he would consider pardoning Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who faced criminal charges after leaking classified documents about vast government surveillance.

“There are many, many people — it seems to be a split decision — many people think that he should be somehow be treated differently and other people think he did very bad things,” Mr. Trump said during a news conference at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. “I’m going to take a very good look at it...

Edward Snowden, the man at the heart of the NSA information leaks, is nothing but a “traitor” — and America ought to recreate history in dealing with him, real estate mogul Donald Trump said on a “Fox & Friends” interview.

In other words, execute him, Mr. Trump implied.

“I think Snowden is a terrible threat, I think he’s a terrible traitor, and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country — you know what we used to do to traitors, right?” Trump said, Politico reported...

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order Monday on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions.

Trump’s order, coming just hours after he returned to the White House, compels the Justice Department to not only seek the death penalty in appropriate federal cases but also to help preserve capital punishment in states that have struggled to maintain adequate supplies of lethal injection drugs...