Lawyers seeking to overturn O.J. Simpson’s 2007 armed robbery conviction filed an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court last week that was nearly 6,000 words over the limit.
The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to consider the case of Billy Wayne Cope, who confessed three times to the rape and murder of his 12-year-old daughter.
Kansas lawyer Dennis Hawver has an explanation for this trial argument on behalf of a double murder suspect: If the defendant had killed two women, he wouldn’t have left a…
The U.S. House of Representatives took two steps on Wednesday to show its disapproval of the way the Internal Revenue Service handled applications for tax-exempt status by groups with “tea…
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been arrested in connection with the 1972 kidnapping, murder and secret burial of Jean McConville, a Belfast woman thought to be a spy for…
A Montana judge “cast serious doubt on the appearance of justice” when he said a 14-year-old rape victim was “older than her chronological age,” the Montana Supreme Court said Wednesday…
Updated: An inmate died after his execution at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester was botched, and the second execution also scheduled for Tuesday evening has been postponed.
National Security Agency-leaker Edward Snowden called on one of the best-known Espionage Act lawyers last year when he entered into plea negotiations with the United States government.
Staten Island Advance reports that Brooklyn lawyer Lee Huttner was arrested on Friday after allegedly trying to solicit prostitution from an undercover police officer in Staten Island. According to…
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