Can a former lawyer collect contingency fees for work he did while he was still a member of the bar? That is the central question in an Arkansas case that…
Responding to a claim that Anthony McKinney has spent 31 years in an Illinois prison for a murder he didn’t commit, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office has asked for…
Lawyer Tom Dunn had defended accused murderers in capital cases for 20 years, including Troy Davis, the inmate who claims the Eighth Amendment prevents his execution…
Sentenced to a 120-day jail term for harshly criticizing a judge, other court officials and a prosecutor in a legal filing, attorney Carl Smith, 62, is asking the Missouri Supreme…
A lawyer was wrong when he advised his client that a felony marijuana plea won’t result in deportation, but was he ineffective under the Sixth Amendment?
A disbarred Florida lawyer caught representing a client in federal court after he lost his license to practice expected to plead guilty to criminal contempt.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday pondered what kind of rule should apply when a suspect who invokes his Miranda right to a lawyer is questioned again two years and…
After embezzling some $88,000 from his ex-employer to purchase scratch-off lottery tickets, a former radio executive got some good news during a recent court hearing:
A lawyer involved in an alleged scheme to obtain $21 million in appraisal contracts by paying Cuyahoga County officials $1.3 million in bribes has accepted a plea bargain.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights were violated because there were only three African Americans among the jury pool available to hear…
Drug courts were created 30 years ago to offer offenders with substance abuse problems an alternative to jail. But now criminal defense lawyers say the drug courts need reform in…
Stanford law graduate Cristina Warthen has been sentenced to one year of home detention and ordered to pay $243,000 for failing to pay taxes on money earned…
A South Florida attorney has been temporarily disbarred, by consent, after allegedly using obscene language, groping a flight attendant and carrying a 7-year-old child down the aisle while the plane…
Freed from a Texas prison and awarded $4 million in compensation after DNA evidence showed that he didn’t commit the sexual assaults for which he served 24 years, 51-year-old Steven…
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