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…
But for the office and background of the man who wrote it, a pointed blog post about the Justice Department’s new clemency effort to get nonviolent offenders out of…
A Kansas lawyer accused of “a cornucopia of … ineptness” by his capital murder client is fighting an ethics board’s recommendation that he be disciplined for his conduct in the…
Jeffrey Fisher, who represents Riley in the Supreme Court: “The police shouldn’t have any access to a cellphone’s digital content.” Photo courtesy of Fisher.
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An Oklahoma judge struck the state’s lethal injection law as unconstitutional Wednesday, saying that it violated due process because it keeps secret from inmates the sources of drugs used in…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a death-row inmate whose trial counsel said during a summation that he couldn’t quarrel with the jury’s decision to…
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