Without discussion the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $14 million settlement of a lawsuit filed by a man who spent more than two decades behind bars following his wrongful ...

Attorneys Johnnie Cochran Jr. and Stuart Hanlon would spend decades working to free former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt, who ...

Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors agreed to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit for $14 million Tuesday morning ...

William Richards maintained his innocence and appealed his criminal conviction several times until it was finally reversed by ...

His attorneys alleged detectives were unable to identify a clear suspect and “decided to invent a suspect themselves and make ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is recommending an ex-Kentucky police officer convicted of using excessive ...

A man was convicted and deported to Mexico, and at least 26 other people have been arrested under a Florida immigration law that officials were ordered not to enforce.

Sean Combs was found not guilty of the major charges of racketeering and sex trafficking, but convicted of prostitution ...

A report says at least 13 people were thought to have taken their own lives as a result of Britain’s Post Office scandal ...

Horn and Jackson were convicted — and eventually exonerated — of charges related to a robbery-turned-murder at a deli in 1999. They each spent 19 years in prison until a reinvestigation uncovered ...