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Little-known federal law allows judges to ignore a not guilty verdict and sentence men and women to prison for illegal activity of which they were acquitted.

Terra Morehead surrendered her law license after framing a Black man for murder, but is it enough penance for the years her victims spent in prison?

According to local officials, handwritten notes from prosecutors were found during an appeal case from a previously sentenced man.

Terra Morehead, a former Wyandotte County prosecutor and retired assistant U.S. attorney in Kansas, voluntarily surrendered her law license following a history of ethical problems.

Opinion: New York banned cameras from courtrooms in 1997. That was an error that haunts the public three decades later as Donald Trump goes to trial.

Students are taught in civics class that, under the American justice system, a defendant may be convicted of a crime only if a jury finds him or her guilty of

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I have no doubt that if the case I deliberated on were tried in a blue city, jurors would have found a legally innocent man guilty.

They can go through that all they want. Its very difficult to get it impartial jury in the city thats 90 providen pro Joe Bidt an impartial Biden Jury its an impartial jury. Yet again this judge has the power to move the case to westchester which is more mixed even though it leans democratic these days or somewhere else just to say i do not want any criticism. Im going to move this case to a county outside of New York going to step down find it daughter who is not raising funds off the case prov...

Morehead’s conduct came under scrutiny during the exoneration of Lamonte McIntyre, who was convicted in 1994 of a double homicide when he was 17. McIntyre was freed in 2017.