Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed a bill that that narrows the state’s definition of felony murder so that individuals are charged for the crime they actually commit. Senate Bill 1437 by Sen. Nancy ...

Re: "Take career criminals off the streets, " Your Opinions, March 6. The dictionary definition of "felony" is not, unfortunately, the definition that our Louisiana Legislators have used to define ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Protesters who might camp or vandalize on Tennessee’s capitol hill could face felony charges. Its in a bill making weaving through legislative committees in what could be the ...

BOTTOM LINE: Because reckless conduct does not satisfy the definition of “violent felony” under the Armed Career Criminal Act, or ACCA, and one of the modalities of Maryland first-degree assault can ...

One man punched a police officer in the face. Another reached for a woman’s neck and grabbed her necklace. The Supreme Court deemed one of those a violent felony, triggering the Armed Career Criminal ...

OLYMPIA — A year after cost concerns derailed a proposal to make more drunken-driving crimes count as felonies, some state lawmakers are again pushing to find the money for the change. The Senate Law ...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Wednesday overturned two felony murder convictions of a Woburn man who helped plan a 2009 home invasion robbery but was not actually present when two ...