While criminal proceedings often dominate headlines following fatal crashes, civil wrongful death litigation may ultimately become one of the most financially significant aspects of the SUNY hit-and-run case.
The arrest of a teenage suspect following the death of a SUNY student in a reported hit-and-run incident is raising renewed legal questions about when juvenile defendants may face adult prosecution in New York. The case touches on one of the most contentious issues in American criminal law: how courts balance adolescent rehabilitation against public demands for accountability in fatal crimes.
Knife-wielding driver hits pedestrians in Modena, Italy, leaving eight injured and a woman needing double leg amputation as bystanders tackle suspect and police investigate motive.
South Carolina's top court overturned Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions, and prosecutors now say they may seek the death penalty in his upcoming retrial over the deaths of his wife and son.
