Homicides in the nation's capital are up 30% so far in 2023. Pending changes to the century-old criminal code of Washington, D.C., are now at the center of political controversy in Congress and an ...

The D.C. Council unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would overhaul the city’s criminal code for the first time in more than 100 years. The council sent the bill to Mayor Muriel Bowser to sign ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A decade after Indiana overhauled its criminal code to reduce incarceration, lawmakers approved more than a dozen new crimes and sentencing enhancements. The new laws, set to take ...

Paul is a Senior Legal Research Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Some claim that the critics of overcriminalization are making a mountain out of a ...

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An accused person can challenge the lawfulness of a warrantless arrest, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday, if the ...