Plea Deals

Law professor Cynthia Alkon, who studies plea bargaining, explains what RICO plea deals for Trump's co-defendants are and how they work.

Cyntoia Brown and Robert Mueller's investigations into Donald Trump and his cohorts may seem unrelated, but they tell the same story.

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Louisiana death row inmate who wanted to argue his innocence during his trial but whose lawyer told the jury that he was guilty.

A new study conducted by the Vera Institute of Justice titled, “Race and Prosecution in Manhattan,” revealed that Black and Latino defendants in Manhattan are more likely to be held pretrial proceedings and ultimately sentenced to prison than white or Asian defendants.