More than 25 years after 7,000 people died from a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide Corp. pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, and many more were injured, a court…
Some of the bidders at yesterday’s auction of vehicles purchased by Scott Rothstein had their own axes to grind with the ex-attorney who pleaded guilty to masterminding a $1.2 billion…
An Illinois prosecutor was hospitalized today after an assistant public defender allegedly choked him in a court hallway in Chicago following a courtroom dispute over setting a hearing date in…
Tearful and apologetic, Paulette Reed was sentenced today to one to three years in prison for stealing a total of $556,756 from two upstate New York law firms and taken…
An Arkansas mother who posted messages on her 17-year-old son’s Facebook account, making it look as though social networking messages she wrote came from him, has been convicted of harassment…
A federal judge was so aggravated by the 76 phone calls made by the jury forewoman in a death penalty case that he held her in contempt and ordered her…
A Florida appellate panel found a lower court didn’t abuse its discretion when it held a defense lawyer in criminal contempt after contacting a juror excused for a medical reason.
Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal has notified the U.S. Supreme Court that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons supplied incorrect information about six juvenile prisoners that was cited in a recent…
A memo issued last week by attorney general Eric Holder to prosecutors issued new guidelines giving prosecutors more flexibility in charging decisions and sentencing recommendations, saying that “equal justice depends…
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