If you lived in far northwest Mohave County, Arizona, it might take more than an hour to get to the nearest court building in Colorado City, and you’d have to…
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Kyle Rimel. Photograph by Jeff Green Photography.
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A veteran Illinois prosecutor publicly fired Monday by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office didn’t lie under oath when testifying in a police-shooting case, his lawyer says.
Updated: Soon after a Chicago police officer was shot in 2012 on the city’s South Side, a suspect was arrested in the basement of the home he shared with his…
A U.S. Supreme Court cert petition is citing a former juror’s N-word assertion in an affidavit obtained eight years after the juror voted to sentence a black Georgia defendant to…
Charged with fatally shooting a neighbor, in front of the man’s family, it appeared that Eric Lydell Smith had been acquitted by a Georgia jury this week.
Denied access Aug. 7 to a jailed woman suspected of killing a state social worker and three relatives after losing a child-custody case, the Vermont defender general’s office swung…
When Lance Franklin reportedly decked his defense lawyer in front of the jury and other witnesses during a Kansas rape trial last year, the judge refused to declare a…
Blistered by a controversial Baltimore trial judge for her claimed ineffective representation of a murder defendant, a defense lawyer soon won a stunning victory.
It took little time for the jury who convicted James Holmes last month of killing 12 people and injuring 70 more during a 2012 shooting at a Batman movie screening…
Edward Montour Jr. is a murderer, serving a prison sentence of life without parole. In fact, he's serving two terms of life without parole, one for the premeditated murder in…
Dylann Roof, the white suspect accused of gunning down nine parishioners at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last month, wants to plead guilty to federal hate-crime…
A Pennsylvania man facing first-degree murder charges in the deaths of two Boise, Idaho, residents wants to be defended by the attorney of his choice, Philadelphia lawyer Jack McMahon.
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