Explore how U.S. criminal law defines, prosecutes, and punishes crime — including key elements, defenses, sentencing rules, ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

PHOENIX - The civil fraud trial involving Former President Donald Trump has been in the headlines in recent weeks. The lawsuit accuses Trump of dramatically inflating his net worth, and during trial ...

On the one hand, restitution is imposed by a court as part of sentencing and adds to a defendant’s post-conviction obligations, which certainly sounds punitive. But the primary purpose of restitution ...

SCOTUSCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official ...