Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With just over four months before trial is scheduled to begin for the four officers charged with violating Tyre Nichols' civil ...

Convicted offenders in NSW will soon be unable to rely on a key type of evidence during sentencing, under major new reforms.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday asked a federal court of appeals to reconsider taking on his request for a new trial in the defamation case brought — and won — by writer E. Jean Carroll. In ...

Prosecutors moved to bar former Tulsa Police Officer Shannon Kepler’s defense from discussing “impermissible character evidence” about the teenager he is charged with killing and about Kepler’s ...

Abolishing the use of "good character" evidence as a mitigating factor for offenders during sentencing proceedings will reduce trauma for victim-survivors, the state government says.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New South Wales is set to become the first jurisdiction in the country to end the use of good character references in the ...