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A U.S. District Court recently ruled that the Missouri Parole Board had been violating the U.S. and Missouri Constitutions in its handling of cases…

A lot of money has gone missing at local colleges and universities lately. A former administrator at Washington University was indicted for allegedly…

In what some are calling a historic compromise, a broad spectrum of senators on Thursday announced support for sweeping changes in criminal sentencing…

With federal prisons already more than 30 percent beyond their designed capacity, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons, an unlikely group of U.S.…

You can be just or you can be merciful but it’s damned hard to be both simultaneously. Barack Obama may have pulled off that difficult trick when he…

The Missouri Supreme Court has affirmed the murder conviction for Gregory Bowman, but reversed the sentence that put him on death row.The court ruled…

Updated at 5:00 p.m. March 10, 2011 with additional comments.Former Sunset Hills police officer Christine Miller received her sentence today for the 2009…

In November 2010, James Allen Morgan, a former St. Louis city liquor control officer, plead guilty to bribery charges. Today, Morgan found out just how…

UPDATED 4:10 Dec. 15, 2010 with comments from Richard Callahan and sentencing:In court on Wednesday, prosecutors revealed that Shade stopped cooperating…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 17, 2010 - Every year in my first-year criminal law class, I have my students consider a sample…