The curated articles highlight criminal sentencing outcomes in Thurston County Superior Court for cases in Olympia and Lacey. A man was sentenced to over 14 years for setting a person on fire. In a ...

One effort to revisit overly tough sentences came from an unlikely source: prosecutors. It was called the “McDonaldization of punishment.” In the 1990s, alarm over high crime rates led to a raft of ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official ...