A man, who was found guilty of murdering his wife in a double jeopardy case, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Robert Rhodes was originally acquitted of killing his wife Dawn in June 2016, ...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a Second Circuit order mandating two separate convictions and sentences—one for a ...

The Supreme Court ruled in Barrett v. United States that a defendant may not receive two firearm convictions for a single ...

In Barrett v. United States, the court held in an opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause prohibits a defendant from receiving two convictions for […] ...

The Supreme Court will eventually need to resolve a "tension" in the way it has handled past cases, Gorsuch wrote in a new ...

The high court’s ruling settles a dispute between the appellate circuits over whether Congress intended to authorize ...

The attorney representing Raul Valle believes the case will be dropped on the grounds that the charges brought against him after a jury found him not guilty on more serious offenses tied to the death ...

Now, what do a small-time Alabama felon and a big-time prosecutor like Robert Mueller have in common? Well, a case brought by the felon and heard by the Supreme Court today could have implications for ...

While not altogether unexpected, Italy’s highest criminal court ruling Tuesday overturning the acquittals of Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend in the 2007 murder of her British roommate is still a ...

A district court judge has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss a sexual abuse case, rejecting arguments that prior child welfare proceedings bar the prosecution under constitutional protections ...

The attorney representing Raul Valle believes the case will be dropped on the grounds that the charges brought against him after a jury found him not guilty on more serious offenses tied to the death ...