After 18 years in prison for the 1993 murders of  Steven Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore, a deal was cut that allowed them to walk out of prison (and for Echols, off death row).The defendants took an Alford Plea to the murders with an agreed upon sentence of, in essence, time served plus a ten year suspended imposition of sentence. [read post]

Michael Cohen’s First Amendment rights were violated when he was ordered back to prison after probation authorities said he refused to sign a form banning him from publishing the book or communicating publicly in other manners, U.S. [read post]