In a case that has made international headlines, a legal aid lawyer in New York used a cop’s Internet information to defeat a criminal case against his client.
In a rare public rebuke, District Attorney Pat Lykos of Harris County, Texas, has blasted both prosecution and defense lawyers in a wrongful conviction case. She also blames police and…
Out-of-control discovery in civil cases can be so expensive that it prevents parties from litigating legitimate disputes, a joint report (PDF) by two legal organizations says.
Liberals and conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided yesterday on whether a convict has a constitutional right to a DNA test of evidence, leaving Justice Anthony M. Kennedy…
The first call to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department about an 840-pound emerald came from Larry Biegler in September. The giant gemstone, which he said was worth some $400…
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has rejected an argument by the Obama administration that a lawsuit by a Muslim charity is blocked by the state secrets privilege.
When Chris Shake ran short of the pagers he gave to customers who wanted to stroll outside while awaiting a table at his Old Fisherman’s Grotto eatery, he suspected a…
Asked by a friend who is a lawyer to write a statement saying that she wasn’t drunk when she left a bar, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Makowski reportedly…
Problems including conflicts of interest and a lack of appropriate scientific standards require a wholesale overhaul of crime labs throughout the country, to be sure that the guilty are convicted…
A North Carolina man arrested on Albany, N.Y., assault charges after the victim identified him from a photo on the MySpace social networking site has suddenly been cleared as his…
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