Critics of the current magistration system say it wastes taxpayers' money and can substantially increase the time offenders ...

Davidson County magistrates will now have access to a suspect’s full criminal history through a database that allows access ...

Broughton's main scholarly work was his massive, three-volume Magistrates of the Roman Republic (commonly abbreviated MRR)... requiring more than 30 years to complete. The project provides an ...

Massachusetts’ highest court has initiated an emergency protocol that could see many indigent criminal defendants in Middlesex and Suffolk county courts released from jail or their cases dropped.

Many court-appointed attorneys have stopped taking on new clients as they fight for higher pay rates from the state.

The knife-wielding maniac accused of stabbing three officers in a Manhattan courthouse attack pleaded not guilty Thursday – ...