As an investigation proceeds in an unusual perjury conspiracy case brought against a Michigan lawyer as he was about to try a client’s capital murder case, the presiding judge overseeing…
Lawyers for convicted Texas financier R. Allen Stanford are seeking a new trial partly because journalists were allowed to tweet news of off-the-record courtroom conferences.
Defendants who reject or pass up plea bargains because their lawyers provided ineffective assistance of counsel may have their subsequent, harsher sentences overturned, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in…
Updated: A prisoner who claimed he received ineffective assistance at trial and once again at his first opportunity to raise the claim on review got some help from the U.S.…
A federal appeals court has warned prosecutors about the potential consequences of using “disrespectful or uncivil language” toward others in their appellate briefs.
A suspect in a child pornography investigation may assert his Fifth Amendment rights in refusing to unlock encrypted hard drives, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a Michigan inmate who contended he should have received a Miranda warning before being interrogated in a prison conference room about sexual conduct…
The Mississippi Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on the constitutionality of outgoing former Gov. Haley Barbour’s mass pardon of state prison inmates.
A Georgia woman was expected to plead guilty Friday to charges that she kidnapped a newborn baby from a New York hospital in 1987 and raised the child as her…
A lawyer for Malcolm Harris, who under the Twitter handle @destructuremal allegedly started a false rumor that the band Radiohead would perform at Occupy Wall Street, today asked…
The ABA House of Delegates has adopted standards that could be used by courts and legislatures when deciding whether law enforcement investigating crimes should have access to records held by…
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