Casey Anthony is losing a lawyer from her trial team, after he was placed on involuntary inactive status by the California State Bar because of his alleged mishandling of client…
After nearly 25 years of appeals, a Utah prison inmate is now scheduled to face a firing squad in June for murdering an attorney during a botched 1985 escape from…
Updated: An Ohio judge who has refused to step down from a serial murder case after a local newspaper reported that she may have posted anonymous Internet comments about the…
A South Florida judge accused of failing to disclose a close relationship with a prosecutor who was trying a first-degree murder case in her courtroom has resigned her seat on…
One of the anonymous individuals who has posted on an Ohio newspaper’s affiliated website about an accused serial killer may be the judge overseeing his case, according to the Cleveland…
The co-director of Stanford Law School’s Supreme Court litigation clinic used a smoke analogy to make a point Wednesday about a death row inmate’s right to appeal after a second…
The U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution of Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner on Wednesday evening, just one hour before he was scheduled to be executed.
A Texas death row inmate is seeking an 11th-hour reprieve from the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court so he can get DNA tests that had been shunned by his…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the New Orleans District Attorney’s office may be liable for failing to turn over a crime lab report that could have…
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