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How drunk is too drunk to consent to sex? That is the question an Ohio juvenile court judge will be asked to consider this week in the case of two Steubenville High School football players accused of sexually assaulting a teen girl during an alcohol-fueled night of partying last August.

One student told Crimesider: “I was told, ‘Rape is like football, you know, if you look back on the game, and you’re the quarterback, Annie, is there anything you would have done differently?’”

In the months after Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman fatally shot an unarmed 17-year-old named Trayvon Martin during an altercation, the national conversation turned to whether laws allowing armed citizens to “stand your ground” against a perceived threat of bodily harm were causing more harm than good.

Twenty five years ago, a slim, smooth-talking addict named Clarence approached “48 Hours” correspondent Bernard Goldberg and tried to sell him some crack. “I can get the good crack,” he said, in full view of CBS cameras.

A prominent member of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn has been sentenced to 103 years in prison after being convicted last month on 59 counts of sexual abuse against a young girl he counseled for years.

A hacker group claiming association with Anonymous posted the video of Steubenville, Ohio teens laughing and making crude remarks about the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl. Two teens have been charged with rape and the case is set to go to trial in February.

Four orthodox Jewish men were arrested Thursday in Brooklyn for allegedly taking pictures of a teenage girl while she testified she was sexually abused by another orthodox man.

So-called “Black Friday” sales may be catnip for some holiday shoppers, but in recent years they’ve also become scenes of bizarre – and in some places deadly – violence.

Across the country, voters Tuesday weighed in on myriad matters of criminal justice, including the death penalty, assisted suicide, legalizing marijuana, condom use on porn sets, and the three-strikes sentencing law.