A lawyer for a death row inmate argued before the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday that the conviction should be overturned because one juror was tweeting during the trial and…
A Texas judge has granted a recusal motion by a veteran prosecutor and stepped aside from determining whether he and another senior member of the Harris County district attorney’s office…
Two prosecutors and two court reporters have been ordered to appear before a Texas judge Nov. 7 to show cause why they should not be held in contempt concerning an…
An Illinois juror helping decide whether the Metra commuter railroad was negligent in the death of a blind man couldn’t resist blogging about the case, spurring an appeal and an…
In the latest development in an unusual runaway grand jury investigation in Texas, the judge overseeing the Harris County case has disqualified the local district attorney’s office and appointed two…
An unusual runaway grand jury in Houston may be probing the local district attorney’s office in addition to issues with the city police department’s breath alcohol testing vans.
A Florida assistant public defender is asking a judge to poll jurors to determine whether lengthy deliberations contributed to a mood of grumpiness that influenced a guilty verdict in an…
A Harvard law student who’s a huge fan of Survivor has already parlayed his love of the reality television program into a prizewinning paper for a class on the American…
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