The U.S. Supreme Court began what may become a multi-stage debate over the reach of its 2012 decision banning automatic life-without-parole sentences for juvenile murderers. Hearing arguments from a Louisiana man still in prison for killing a sheriff’s deputy in ...

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A Capitol Heights man was sentenced Wednesday to 46 months in prison for his involvement in a far-reaching identity theft and tax fraud scheme in which he and others filed fraudulent federal income tax returns seeking more than $2.5 million ...

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A Baltimore man pleaded guilty Wednesday to the federal crime of rioting, including the arson of a CVS Pharmacy store during April’s civil unrest. Raymon Carter, 24, will serve four years in prison under a deal with federal prosecutors. Sentencing ...

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Former Indemnity Insurance Corp. executive Jeffrey Cohen said Thursday that prosecutors’ evidence of his alleged plan to “scout out” and harm a Delaware judge and the state’s then-lieutenant governor was simply part of his creative writing work. Cohen had recorded ...

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Former insurance executive Jeffrey Cohen got the chance Wednesday to cross-examine the IRS agent who investigated his fraud and pointed out inaccuracies and misinformation in documents introduced into evidence.

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A federal judge on Tuesday denied former insurance executive Jeffrey Cohen’s motion to withdraw a guilty plea he entered three months ago. U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. rejected Cohen’s argument that Cohen relied on a misrepresentation made by ...

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GREENBELT — A bank manager has been sentenced to more than 8 years in prison for plotting the robbery of an armored truck that serviced the branch. Fifty-year-old Valentina Elebesunu of Temple Hills was also ordered to pay restitution at ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A western Maryland woman who prosecutors say was texting while driving when she hit and killed a bicyclist has been sentenced to five years in prison. Twenty-four-year-old Nadine Rager of Hagerstown pleaded guilty Monday to negligent manslaughter by ...

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Sentencing for the former CEO of Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc., who pleaded guilty earlier this year to failing to pay taxes and theft, has been postponed until August. William K. Hathaway, 52, faces up to 10 years in prison. He ...

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Should the court also throw out mandatory life in prison for juveniles in older cases?

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