The court had heard that the child victims looked up to the defendant as a 'cool older cousin' and that teenagers would often ...

First Judicial Criminal Court Judge Stacy Street took particular note of a victim impact statement Tuesday as Mark Sexton III ...

The Iowa Supreme Court rules a victim impact statement in Cerro Gordo County case was properly used to sentence a woman who took money from her employer. Malorie Hallock pleaded guilty to stealing ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — The heartbroken mother of 16-year-old Michael McCune, who was ambushed and fatally shot ...

Victim impact statements allow those affected by crime to detail its emotional, physical and financial shock to the court during sentencing. Its primary purposes are to assist judges in determining ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The fight for Senate Bill 9 continues as it was passed unanimously, 9-0, by the Corrections and Criminal Law Committee on Tuesday morning. This bill would require defendants ...

Sarah Zent (left) and her three children — Carter, Ashton and Aubree — were killed in Fort Wayne in 2021 and are the inspiration for a bill moving through the Indiana Legislature that would largely ...

The man convicted of murdering Kayley Richardson’s 2-year-old niece had his day in court. Six days, actually. Richardson on Tuesday recalled the agony of adhering to the court’s rules that forbid ...

The wind howled outside the courthouse as David Kingsley stood before Judge Robert Bauer and was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the beating death of Robert Brooks. Brooks, an incarcerated ...

Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man convicted of killing his wife Ana Walshe on New Year's Day 2023 in their Cohasset home, was formally sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of ...

She said Ana Walshe’s death has left her family with “an unbearable emptiness.” On Thursday, Brian Walshe was sentenced to life in prison without parole after earlier this week a Norfolk County jury ...

MORGAN COUNTY, Tenn. — A man took a guilty plea on Friday after a crash months ago that claimed the life of one man and seriously injured his wife. Investigators blame a driver high on drugs for ...