A paralegal came close to derailing San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s represention of an alleged assailant in a gang fight by secretly dating the defendant for…
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday on whether the Sixth Amendment requires lab workers to be available for cross-examination about their forensic reports.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear two cases that ask whether jurors considering the death penalty can consider emotional videos as victim impact evidence.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley makes her first U.S. Supreme Court appearance today to argue that the state is not obligated to produce forensic scientists for courtroom testimony about their…
The FBI is asking a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s order allowing a lawyer to take the videotaped deposition of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore has withdrawn as pro bono counsel for a convict who won a new trial on the basis of another man’s audiotaped murder confession that is now…
The case involving the once-anonymous Patent Troll Tracker is in the news again now that Cisco Systems is reportedly turning up the heat on a Texas lawyer who sued the…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a former inmate convicted of raping and assaulting a prostitute has a constitutional right to a DNA test that he claims…
Every day in criminal trials, prosecutors introduce reports from crime labs as evidence. States carried out tests in 1.9 million drug cases alone in 2006, Nov 2, 2008 2:35 AM CST
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered prosecutors to turn over documents shedding light on a Guantanamo detainee’s claims of torture in a case that troubled the British High…
A gubernatorial candidate in Washington maintained he didn’t violate campaign finance laws during a deposition Wednesday that was marked more by the lawyers’ rancorous disagreements than revealing testimony.
Privacy advocates are expressing concern about some court rulings that are allowing police to search through cell phones for call lists and text messages during an arrest.
In 1980, Ronald Rice stood before a judge in suburban Chicago and apologized for hiding the body of an 11-year-old boy that he accidentally hit with his car. He was…
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