In a partial victory for Conrad Black, a federal appeals court has axed two “honest services” fraud verdicts against the media mogul. However, it upheld a verdict that he was…
Updated: As of yesterday, two assistant public defenders in Florida reportedly were simply seeking to subpoena a jury forewoman’s Facebook records following published comments questioning her impartiality by another member…
Juvenile-justice advocates plan to test the reach of a U.S. Supreme Court decision barring life-without-parole sentences for youths who commit crimes other than murder.
Freed yesterday after spending 18 years in prison for a capital crime he did not commit, Anthony Graves was initially convicted because of a “nightmare” of prosecutorial misconduct that included…
The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution on Tuesday in the case of a death-row inmate who challenged the foreign origin of a lethal injection drug.
In what the Ohio Supreme Court describes in a slip opinion (PDF) today as a “highly extraordinary” case, it has vacated a death penalty conviction and ordered…
An attorney for the top criminal court judge in Texas hailed the elimination of a public warning earlier this month as a conclusive win for his client in a legal…
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens had some pointed criticism for his one-time colleague, Justice Antonin Scalia, in a little-noticed speech earlier this month.
According to a new study by the Washington, D.C.-based Sentencing Project, 23 states have given increased voting rights to convicted felons in the past 13 years and…
Journalists will be allowed to tweet and send live-text accounts of an expected guilty plea in a high-profile murder trial of an air force commander, a Canadian judge has ruled.
A federal magistrate judge found an Oregon disability claims lawyer guilty of disorderly conduct and sentenced him to a year of probation and an anger management course after a three-year…
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