What’s rarely mentioned, however, is that federal law allows judges to ignore a not guilty verdict and sentence men and women to prison for illegal activity of which they were acquitted.
Case of the Iuventa became a symbol of what activists say are growing attempts to criminalise refugee aid workers Judges in Sicily have acquitted all crew members of an NGO rescue boat who had ...
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court turned away appeals in several cases that would have given the justices an opportunity to prohibit the consideration of such acquitted conduct in sentencing decisions.
Federal judges will be limited from enhancing defendants' sentences based on conduct a jury acquitted them of, a practice that has drawn condemnation from a wide range of civil liberties groups ...
Exactly 13 years after Simpson was acquitted, the former professional football player was convicted in court for a 2007 robbery and kidnapping incident in Las Vegas. The case stemmed from Simpson ...
A man charged with dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm, in relation to a 2021 crash that killed a toddler in downtown Vancouver, has been acquitted on both ...
Simpson himself approved of her coverage and, after he was acquitted, she became his go-to media contact for exclusive interviews in the ensuing decades. The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Deutsch ...
O.J. Simpson, the acquitted California murder defendant, former football star and actor, has died, his agent confirmed to CBS News. He was 76. A statement posted to social media by Simpson's ...
Pakistani police are investigated the shooting death of a man who had been acquitted of killing accused Indian spy Sarabjit Singh in prison in 2013 LAHORE, Pakistan -- Pakistani authorities are ...
O.J. Simpson, the former football great who was accused of and ultimately acquitted of the brutal 1994 slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, has died, according to his family. He was 76.
O.J. Simpson, the former champion football running back-turned-actor who was acquitted in a sensational trial of charges that he murdered his ex-wife and her friend, has died of cancer ...