Parking is going to be scarce for the next several years at a South Florida courthouse, as construction of a new facility eliminates a former parking lot.
A Manhattan juror who voted to convict two former Jenkens & Gilchrist partners in a tax shelter scheme never disclosed she was a suspended lawyer with an arrest record, according…
No one denies that Rosie, a New York therapy dog who works with witnesses in criminal cases, is very cute. However the defense lawyers of a man convicted of raping…
Starting in 2012, California jurors who tweet during trial or deliberations can be sentenced to jail time, under a new law Gov. Jerry Brown signed Friday.
In a case involving a gay California inmate convicted of assault after hugging a security guard, federal public defenders told a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel yesterday that…
Many legal bloggers took time this week to post on the wind-up, verdict and aftermath of Casey Anthony’s murder trial. Many expressed a degree of satisfaction that the tone of…
Jailed on what he describes as “some very serious felony charges,” a suspect in the shooting deaths of four people at a Long Island, N.Y., pharmacy last month was worried…
A Houston jury consultant who helped the defense select the jury for the Casey Anthony trial advised against putting parents with young children on the jury.
Some jurors liked former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. But one found him manipulative. An alternate noted he remembered everything for his lawyers but seemed to remember nothing when questioned by…
Corrected: A juror in the United Kingdom who admitted contacting a drug defendant through Facebook has been sentenced to eight months in prison for contempt of court.
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