In 2009, Shirin Bryant watched as an all-white jury acquitted a white police detective who shot and killed her 18-year-old brother, Jashon, in the north end of Hartford. The detective, Robert Lawlor, ...

Yakima County soon will see its first jury trial since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to a new jury selection system at the Yakima SunDome. There, prospective jurors will be spread out ...

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Trial by jury has long been considered a jewel in the crown of America’s constitutional republic. Alexis de Tocqueville, who traveled the young nation observing its social, political and legal ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - You've probably heard of a grand jury in the news or on TV crime shows but what exactly is a grand jury? And how is it different than a regular trial jury? The simplest ...

The case of Ahmaud Arbery has become a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement and over the last two and half weeks, as the trial unfolded, race took center stage both inside and outside the ...

I didn't want to write this, but I feel compelled to after my recent term of service on a Harris County grand jury. Our grand jury system in Harris County is broken. Something desperately needs to be ...

President Joe Biden said Friday he stands by the jury's decision after Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges in his homicide trial. "I stand by what the jury has concluded. The jury system ...

The recent release of tape recordings from the Breonna Taylor Grand Jury and public statements by three of the anonymous Grand Jury members have offered America a rare look into an opaque system. The ...

Thanks largely to Republican political tactics, the courts were already losing legitimacy for millions of Americans before a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty Friday. Progressives are now afraid ...

A New Jersey jury found Harris Jacobs guilty of leaving the scene of an accident after he struck a pedestrian with his S.U.V. But jurors would not have the final word. By Tracey Tully and Jonah ...

Rick Sarre receives funding from the Criminology Research Council. He is affiliated with the Labor Party of SA. The High Court today quashed the conviction of Cardinal George Pell, who had originally ...