A California appeals court ruled this week that holding a cell phone while driving, even while looking at a map to navigate, ...

Breakthroughs in DNA technology continue to bring resolution to decades-old cases once considered unsolvable. Techniques like ...

David Lira, the son-in-law of convicted California attorney Tom Girardi and a former member of Girardi's now-defunct law firm, pleaded guilty on Thursday to criminal contempt in connection with ...

Jurors started deliberating Thursday in Harvey Weinstein 's New York sex crimes retrial, tasked with deciding - again - a case that encapsulated the #MeToo movement.

A CalMatters investigation has found that poor people accused of crimes are routinely convicted in California without anyone investigating the charges against them. Close to half of California’s ...

Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper and District Attorney Thien Ho are calling for reforms to California's mental health ...

A CalMatters investigation finds that Californians are routinely convicted of crimes without anyone investigating the charges against them.

The California State Assembly passed Assembly Bill 1231, which would allow judges to offer pretrial diversion for people ...

Hundreds of people convicted of murder in California didn't kill anyone. They were handed long sentences because they drove a getaway car or kicked down a door in a robbery that ended in murder -- and ...

Cooper and Ho say they plan to continue pushing lawmakers for changes they believe will better balance public safety and ...

Hasan Korkmaz, 44, of Las Vegas, the owner and operator of San Diego Logistics Group Inc., a Santee trucking company, was arraigned in federal court today on an 18-count indictment charging him with ...