The Florida Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a murder defendant because his lawyer had to use a peremptory challenge to remove a prospective juror who should have…
In the latest twist in the controversial case of a former Montana high school teacher who admitted raping one of his 14-year-old students, yet had all but 30 days of…
An Oklahoma lawyer who mounted an unsuccessful legal challenge to the method of execution eventually used on his client in a death-penalty case is entitled to be paid for his…
Castigated for having sentenced a former teacher convicted of raping a 14-year-old who subsequently committed suicide to only 30 days in jail, a Montana judge now says he made have…
Peter Smith: “If victims don’t call, then the police don’t get contacted until one of these incidents reaches a boiling point.” Photo by Gene Smirnov.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Bales, who admitted to shooting 16 civilians, including nine children, in a 2012 bloody rampage of two villages in Afghanistan, was sentenced to life in prison…
Edgar Paltzer, a lawyer with U.S. and Swiss citizenship who is licensed to practice in New York, has pleaded guilty to helping American clients hide assets from the IRS.
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