Prosecutors trying Casey Anthony, a 25-year-old Florida woman charged with murdering her young daughter, were armed with Internet information during a special Saturday jury selection, checking out panel members’ social…
As an unusual off-site jury selection process continued today in Pinellas County, Fla., for a high-profile murder trial in Orlando, the presiding judge had his patience tested.
Updated: When more than 100 prospective jurors entered a courtroom in Pinellas County, Fla., yesterday, many presumably thought they were facing perhaps one or two days hearing testimony in a…
Casey Anthony, a Florida woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, doesn’t want her parents at her trial, and argued to keep them out, on the basis of her right…
An Oklahoma appeals court has overturned a woman’s murder conviction because a judge advised jurors not to be “hardheads” and told them to reach a quick verdict.
As some media organizations today appealed a Florida judge’s rules for offsite jury selection in an upcoming high-profile murder trial, an appeals court in a different state yesterday reversed an…
In North Carolina, statistics don’t just tell a story; they can let a death row inmate challenge his conviction. A 2009 state statute allows death row inmates to claim that…
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Ken Rose: “[We could] go from being a leader in the area of racial justice to a state that wants to continue to hide from the truth.” Photo by Scott Levoyer
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Nine potential jurors were dismissed for cause on Thursday in the retrial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges, but a former prosecutor who had a negative view…
A federal district judge has reversed a jury conviction earlier this year of a self-avowed neo-Nazi accused of using a now-defunct website to solicit harm to the foreman of a…
Arguing that personnel at a Nordstrom in Bethesda, Md., didn’t do enough to protect shoppers from a deranged woman armed with knives in the eight minutes she was in the…
A federal judge is investigating whether jurors who voted to send a confessed killer to death lied on their jury questionnaires and by doing so tainted the verdict.
A “brokester,” in Mob speak, refers to someone with no money, jurors learned yesterday at the federal murder trial of alleged New York crime family acting boss Vincent Basciano.
Already busy with existing cases, prosecutors and defense lawyers in Washington state are facing increased workloads due to a deluge of felony convictions, including in rape and murder cases, being…
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