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Octavio Lopez Sanchez Jr., the last of 10 charged in the March 2022 East High attack to plead guilty, got a 70 year sentence, but no minimum term.

NEW YORK — One of the men accused in the 2002 murder of hip-hop star Jam Master Jay has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges — taking a plea that means a minimum 15-year prison sentence. Jay Bryant, 50, still faces a looming murder trial in the Run-DMC founder’s 2002 slaying, but on Friday he pleaded guilty to all four counts in a separate drug trafficking and gun possession case in ...

The Supreme Court mulls how to apply a mandatory minimum for gun possession by people convicted of drug felonies.

We’re all too willing to argue about the inhumanity of executions. What about those of us who are still alive?

The decision was split, with one justice in dissent

The court will hear the case when its new term begins next week.

Investigators are looking for information from people who may have come in contact with a man indicted on multiple child exploitation charges.

The Racial Justice Reform Movement holds protests and rallies, lobbies Congress and state legislatures, educates the public, and takes on individual defendants’

Mandatory minimum sentences are the product of good intentions, but good intentions do not always make good policy; good results are also necessary.

It’s a shocking headline, but true.