Professor Edna Erez and I have a new article supporting victim impact statements. It is entitled "How Victim Impact Statements Promote Justice: Evidence from the Content of Statements Delivered in ...

"The trauma shattered parts of me and every day I wake up, I'm rebuilding what you broke," one victim said at the sentencing hearing for Shannon O'Connor, a Los Gatos mother convicted for drunken sex ...

Emotions are running high in the courtroom as families deliver gut-wrenching victim impact statements during week three of the sentencing trial for the confessed Parkland shooter. As the jury is ...

Matthew Perry’s mom, Suzanne Morrison, has penned a victim impact statement ahead of her son’s former assistant’s sentencing. REad it in full.

The following statement was read in court today at the sentencing of Samson Donick, 22, when he pleaded guilty to charges of indecent assault and battery, assault and battery and misdemeanor breaking ...

EL PASO (CBSNewsTexas.com) - The federal sentencing hearing for Patrick Crusius began Wednesday morning. In February, the 24-year-old pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes and firearms charges in the ...

FORMER PROSECUTOR PATRICIA LAFRANCE. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. PATRICIA ADAM MONTGOMERY TRANSPORTED TO THE COURTHOUSE. WE JUST SAW THAT HE’S DOING THE COURTROOM IN UNDER AN HOUR FOR THE ...

Despite daunting barriers to reporting, nearly 300 survivors have come forward with stories of the assault they suffered at the hands of Larry Nassar, former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State ...

It wasn’t until Anthony Montalto was sitting next to his wife testifying in a Florida courtroom Wednesday that he realized he was wearing the same clothes he wore the last time he took his daughter ...