A law school graduate has agreed not to auction papers he obtained from convicted Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan after the inmate’s lawyer said they could be critical to…
A longtime officer manager with Kelly Olson Michod DeHaan & Richter has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing over $884,000 from the law firm, according to the…
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…
Unable to prevent inmates from smuggling cellphones into prison, where some 10,000 were confiscated in 2010, the state of California is poised to try another potential solution—jamming prison cellphone calls.
After attending every day of his manslaughter trial in the 2009 stabbing death of an Arizona State University student, a Tempe lawyer was missing in action when he was found…
A federal judge has issued a legal writing warning to lawyers who sought a new trial for a woman convicted of trying to extort money from University of Louisville basketball…
A defense lawyer accused of smiling and calling her sexual abuse client “toast” after the verdict did not deliver effective assistance, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled.
A defamation suit filed by a fired Philadelphia news anchor against her former network and co-anchor is focusing on whether the two had a steamy relationship, as he claims, or,…
The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for a man convicted in a Los Angeles double murder, despite evidence that his trial lawyer had failed to introduce evidence…
Expressing disgust at what he called an intentional killing of a man police apparently mistakenly believed to be a looter, federal judge today sentenced a former New Orleans officer to…
The lawyer who once headed a government agency that protects federal whistle-blowers has received a one-month sentence for withholding information after he scrubbed information from his computer.
Found guilty by a church tribunal in 2006 of sexually abusing a minor decades ago and subsequently defrocked, a high-ranking former New York priest has now turned the tables on…
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