A convicted murderer who argues Alabama law didn’t allow his death sentence will get a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on whether his appeal was filed too late.
For the third time, the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and restored the death penalty for a man convicted of the…
Baltimore lawyer J. Wyndal Gordon says he had a special bond with convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, and he plans to write a book about his onetime client.
In a perhaps unexpected example of the banality of evil, attendees at a preview today of a New York auction of personal belongings bought with money from Bernard Madoff’s record-breaking…
A concurring opinion by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on the ABA’s capital representation standards and the association’s membership has one conservative commentator doing the blog equivalent of a victory…
The problem of drawing lines became a focus at yesterday’s oral arguments on whether the Constitution bars a sentence of life without parole for juveniles who don’t commit murder.
A lawyer who formerly worked in the enforcement division of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has pleaded guilty to helping attorney Marc Dreier try to sell $44.7 million of…
Contending that a top Texas appellate judge misled a federal appeals court that dismissed a wrongful death claim by the wife and daughter of an executed inmate, a civil rights…
As a report released today harshly criticized those in charge of monitoring the California parole of convicted sex offender and alleged child-kidnapper Phillip Garrido, who is accused of kidnapping an…
Phillipa Curtis had a blood-alcohol level of zero when she rear-ended a disabled neon-yellow Fiat parked at the side of the narrow roadway. But the 22-year-old was sentenced to 21…
A former partner of Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone was sentenced to five years in federal prison today after pleading guilty in April 2008 to one count of conspiring to…
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court today issued an order vacating all juvenile rulings between 2003 and 2008 by former Luzerne County President Judge Mark Ciavarella.
Convicted yesterday in a prostitution and harrassment case, a Washington state judge apparently will continue to collect his $148,000-a-year salary for the foreseeable future.
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