The Kentucky Court of Appeals has called a temporary halt to a trial, in the latest dispute over the racial composition of a jury in a criminal case before Jefferson…
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday ruled that an accused killer can’t be retried because the trial judge mistakenly declared a mistrial after the defense gave its opening statement.
In an error now admitted by the prosecution, a Washington, D.C., police forensics expert incorrectly testified that a match between bullet slugs found in a murder victim’s vehicle and a…
The Georgia Supreme Court has unanimously reversed the 2010 murder conviction of a defendant who asked to represent himself but then saw his request “virtually ignored” both by the trial…
Updated: A federal judge rebuked the City of Chicago and its lawyers for failing to turn over evidence in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a man…
Grand jurors on Monday failed to indict jailers in the jailhouse death of Sandra Bland, a Chicago-area woman found hanged in her Texas cell after she was pulled over for…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether state laws that make it a crime to refuse warrantless blood-alcohol tests are a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
CIA director John Brennan said on Monday that public “hand-wringing” and leaks involving digital surveillance have made it harder to identify “murderous sociopaths” of ISIS.
For years, a commission in Jefferson County, Kentucky, has been monitoring the number of blacks on juries, which is consistently lower than their representation in the county’s general population.
A former South Texas judge got six years for admittedly taking bribes from lawyers, after cooperating with the feds in prosecuting the attorneys and others.
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