During Wednesday's hearing, Effingham County Superior Court Judge William Woodrum Jr. ordered the sentence changed to kidnapping after finding that the jury was not properly instructed in the ...

OLYMPIA — Incorrect language on a court sentencing form improperly shaved off community supervision and treatment time for at least 73 Washington state sex offenders participating in a special program ...

A simple error almost shaved off 12 years from a Vancouver man’s 2004 murder sentence, until the error was caught before the sentencing document was filed. Jason S ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Ruling that a criminal defense lawyer erred, a federal judge has thrown out the 30-year prison sentence handed down to a convicted drug dealer deemed an “armed career criminal.” ...

The Southport murderer refused to leave his cell at one of Britain’s highest security jails as a judge today corrected a ‘technical error’ in his sentence. Axel Rudakubana, 18, was resentenced to ...