This column addresses how using artificial intelligence in the criminal justice system may be unfairly prejudicial to defendants and violates their constitutional right to effective assistance of ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A man found guilty of aggravated assault against a law enforcement officer was denied effective assistance of legal counsel, and his conviction and sentence must be vacated, ...

Kaitlyn Conley was tried twice in 2017 for second-degree murder for the July 2015 poisoning death of her employer, Whitesboro chiropractor Mary Yoder. Fourth Department in Rochester agrees with Conley ...

The high court’s unanimous decisions in Seamus Coyle v. State and Harry Davis, Jr. v. State, were both authored by Justice Shirley Watts. (The Daily Record/File Photo) In a pair of rulings Wednesday, ...

In several prior decisions, appellate courts across the state have addressed the merits of ineffective assistance claims brought in a Sex Offender Registration Act matter, without deciding whether ...

For the first time, Colorado's second-highest court has recognized there is a right to effective assistance of counsel for people involved in criminal cases whom the government wishes to forcibly ...