Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court reverses felony and misdemeanor convictions for man claiming he was unable to pay $20 fee when filling out offender registry form.
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North Carolina
(The Center Square) – Scott Lindsay, the former lawyer for a North Carolina county’s Department of Social Services, for now has avoided jail time in his conviction of advising the agency to use agreements resulting in more than two dozen children removed from their parents’ custody.
New Hampshire
New Hampshire state law gives convicted prisoners three years to request a new trial. After that, they lose the right. With a narrow exception for DNA forensics, that’s true even if new evidence contradicting their guilt emerges. If someone else confesses to the crime after three years, they can’t request a new trial. If previously […]
Kansas
Midwest Innocence Project attorneys argue a Kansas City, Kansas, man was unjustly convicted of murder and attempted murder in a 2009 barbershop shooting.
Tennessee
Anti-abortion activist Paul Vaughn was convicted in 2024 on a felony charge of conspiring to prevent access to a Mt. Juliet reproductive clinic, then pardoned the following year by President Donald Trump just days after he retook office for a second term. Earlier this week, attorneys with the Thomas More Society, who represent Vaughn, announced […]
Missoula
A Helena Valley man was sentenced Thursday to five years in the Montana State Prison following his conviction on rape charges earlier this year.
Minnesota
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is criticizing Minnesota’s Board of Pardons after it issued a pardon for a criminal illegal immigrant ahead of his deportation.Â
Montana
HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Department of Justice (DOJ) has uncovered over $1 million in fraudulent Medicaid claims, filing charges against two counselors in Billings and Great Falls and securing a conviction in a separate case involving a Helena personal care attendant, DOJ announced in a release.
