Bryan Kohberger has one last chance Wednesday to give the grieving parents of four University of Idaho students he admitted to killing the answers they’ve desperately sought for nearly three years.

More than 90 percent of federal criminal convictions arise from a plea deal. Consequently, for almost every convicted defendant, the sole opportunity to address the court and share his or her story ...

All criminals and lawbreakers must go before a judge in the court of law after authorities detain them or issue a promise to appear. The judge is the one who's ultimately in control. They will decide ...

We just landed a copy of Madoff's plea allocution -- the document he read during today's hearing. Click here for a PDF.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Allocution Made to a Magistrate, Political Theory, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Nov., 1990), pp. 525-527 ...