The bill would have allowed judges to ratchet down some misdemeanor offenses to violations, meaning no jail time.

When the Convention replaced “Mal-administration” with “high Crimes and Misdemeanors,” the president’s defense team suggests, it meant to remove not just policy disputes from the list of ...

A fundamental principle of criminal law is that individuals may only be punished for offenses which they have personally committed; any punish-ment must be personal and individual. To that end, ...

Will Barfoot, R-Montgomery, has filed a bill that would expand the list of people currently ... the person has been convicted of a violent crime, a misdemeanor offense of domestic violence ...