Convicted offenders in NSW will soon be unable to rely on a key type of evidence during sentencing, under major new reforms.

With just over four months before trial is scheduled to begin for the four officers charged with violating Tyre Nichols' civil rights, a federal judge is now set to rule on whether certain evidence ...

Abolishing the use of "good character" evidence as a mitigating factor for offenders during sentencing proceedings will ...

Prosecutors moved to bar former Tulsa Police Officer Shannon Kepler’s defense from discussing “impermissible character evidence” about the teenager he is charged with killing and about Kepler’s ...

New South Wales is set to become the first jurisdiction in the country to end the use of good character references in the sentencing of convicted ...