CHICAGO — For the second year in a row, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is proposing the state spend tens of millions of dollars on a witness protection program that went unfunded for the first nine years ...

Virginia’s prolonged budget-amendment process has finally come to a close, resulting in compromises on both sides of the political aisle. As prosecutors, we are glad to see the budget include an ...

In a few weeks time, the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, may authorize its prosecutor Louis Moreno-Ocampo to commence independent investigations and arraignment of the principal ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Witness intimidation is "nothing new," according to Portsmouth Commonwealth's Attorney Stephanie Morales. In an interview Wednesday, she said state leaders need to move forward with ...

It is both heartbreaking and infuriating that the man accused of killing three people in downtown Norfolk in March may never see the inside of a courtroom. Charges against him were dropped on Nov. 1 ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — There's a saying that the wheels of justice turn slowly. But in some cases, the wheels don't turn at all. Accused killers have walked free in several high-profile cases across ...

More than 7,500 witnesses and their families have been relocated over the years. Oct. 26, 2007 — -- Wearing glasses and a mock turtleneck, his temples graying, Carmine Sessa looked more like a ...

Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister in the Presidency, spoke out in support of the government’s witness protection programme This comes after the brutal murder of Marius van der Merwe, known as Witness D, ...