Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is targeting “progressive” prosecutors—a broad term that carries different meanings in different jurisdictions and frequently signals support for policies aimed at reducing mass incarceration. But it’s not just happening in Florida.
A former U.S. ambassador who was arrested Friday for allegedly acting as a Cuban agent had recently worked at Foley & Lardner as a senior adviser on international business.
Texas and Florida accounted for more than half of the executions this year, with Florida putting six inmates to death and Texas executing eight, according to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center.
Federal jurors in Greenbelt, Maryland, convicted former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby on two counts of perjury Thursday for lying about COVID-19 pandemic hardship to take early withdrawals totaling $90,000 from her city retirement fund.
Updated: A judge in Leon County, Florida, has denied a motion to interview jurors about an alleged group chat before the murder conviction of a dentist accused of hiring hit men to kill a Florida State University law professor.
Prosecutors gained a fourth conviction in the July 2014 murder of Dan Markel, a Florida State University College of Law professor, after jurors returned a guilty verdict Monday against Markel’s former brother-in-law.
Dentist Charlie Adelson took the witness stand Thursday and denied hiring hit men to kill his former brother-in-law, Dan Markel, a Florida State University College of Law professor.
Jurors in the murder trial of dentist Charlie Adelson heard Tuesday that he was the first person his mother called after an undercover FBI agent posing as a blackmailer approached her in a “bump" operation.
The alleged go-between in the murder of Florida law professor Dan Markel testified Monday that Markel’s former brother-in-law was the mastermind of the murder plot.
Lawyer Wendi Adelson, the ex-wife of murdered law professor Dan Markel, testified Thursday in her brother’s trial that it’s “completely untrue” that her family was responsible for the slaying.
A Tampa, Florida, lawyer who identified her employer as White & Case has been arrested after she was accused of leaving two children, ages 3 and 7, unattended for at least a half-hour at Upham Beach in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
A judge in Leon County, Florida, ruled Monday that prosecutors can use a secret recording in the trial of a dentist accused of ordering the hit that killed Florida State University College of Law professor Dan Markel in July 2014.
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