The Saudi prisoner agreed to the settlement to avoid a death-penalty trial, his lawyer said, but it has yet to reach the ...

China has embraced a plea deal system, but lawyers and scholars fear that it is being abused to further erode individual ...

Smith's attorney recently met with his client and explained why he expects to go to trial rather than take a plea deal in the case. "He was working at GE for four or five years and I felt bad when ...

Carie Hallford withdrew her guilty plea in federal court Tuesday and is now set to take her case to trial, according to court records. The funeral home in Penrose, about 35 miles southwest of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A murder trial abruptly ended this week when a judge accepted a man’s guilty plea to a lesser offense of involuntary manslaughter. Jerome Lee, 33, was charged with 10 counts ...

The Highland Park parade shooter changed his plea to guilty Monday — moments before opening statements were to begin on the first day of his trial. Lake County Judge Victoria A. Rossetti ...

Timothy Hauschultz will face trial after a judge rejected a plea deal that would have reduced his charges to two Class H felonies. Hauschultz is accused of murder and child abuse in the 2018 death ...

Upon changing his plea to guilty Monday, the Highland Park parade shooter signed "Donald Trump" rather than his own name on a trial waiver document, CBS News Chicago has confirmed. The document ...

On Feb. 25, well after Baxter announced her trial plans at a status conference on Jan. 14, 14 of the 21 defendants in the Hertel & Brown case had reached plea deals on charges that they conspired ...

MANITOWOC – Timothy S. Hauschultz was set to have a jury trial beginning next week but that was canceled and a plea hearing was set for later Feb. 20. Hauschultz is accused of murder and child ...

The District Attorney told the court the main concern continues to be for the minor witnesses who would have to testify if the case goes to trial. “In these plea negotiations that in any case ...

MILFORD, CT. (WFSB) - A plea deal was accepted in the murder trial of Ewen Dewitt, who allegedly used an axe to kill his ex-girlfriend in 2022. Dewitt will serve 40 years in prison for the crime.