The Justice Department section that prosecuted former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, only to see the charges dismissed, was inexperienced and overwhelmed, observers say.
Defense lawyers and government officials told the…
It has become almost a truism, to a significant portion of the legal community, that former U.S. Department of Justice attorney John Yoo was way off target…
In a blistering 50-page opinion (PDF) today criticizing the “win-at-any-cost behavior” of federal prosecutors who secretly taped a defense lawyer, a federal judge in Florida has awarded more…
Opening a new chapter in the ongoing debacle over the federal government’s stunningly unsuccessful prosecution of then-Sen. Ted Stevens for corruption, the legislature of his home state of Alaska today…
As requested by the government, a federal judge today reversed the corruption conviction of former Sen. Ted Stevens and dismissed the case against him with prejudice.
Six days into a high-profile corruption trial of then-Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., knew they’d made a major mistake.
In the aftermath of a stunning reversal of fortune for once-victorious federal prosecutors in the political corruption case against former Sen. Ted Stevens, experts—and, it appears, the U.S. attorney general—are…
A Pennsylvania woman criminally charged with making a false police report of being raped at gunpoint before authorities realized she was, in fact, telling the truth has lost her attempt…
Updated: Five lawyers, including a former district attorney in Johnston County, N.C., began surrendering this week after being charged with tampering with court records to secure dismissals of drunken driving…
The top four floors of a 12-story office building in Oakland, Calif., was evacuated today after a suspicious package was personally delivered to the office of civil rights attorney Mar 31, 2009 9:43 PM CDT
Siding with the American Civil Liberties Union, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has barred the Wyoming County District Attorney from pursuing threatened felony charges against teenage girls he has accused…
A lawyer who won a rare insanity acquittal from a Massachusetts jury last week for a client charged with the first-degree murder of his own mother has blasted the district…
A human rights lawyer says former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five other former Bush administration officials should come to Spain to face accusations that they approved the torture of…
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