Apparently stung by a Florida judge’s finding Monday that his client deserves a new murder trial because of ineffective assistance of counsel, a Tampa lawyer has fired back at the…
Convicted Muslim clerk Ali al-Timimi claims in court papers that he has evidence showing he was illegally wiretapped under the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretap program.
A onetime law student had a brief career as a barrister in the United Kingdom, buying his wig and robe on eBay, before he was eventually found out and criminally…
A 30-year stolen art saga has ended with a seven-year federal prison sentence for a 74-year-old retired lawyer with dementia who was described by the judge in the case as…
A Michigan man was sentenced to 30 to 75 years in prison today for stabbing to death his estranged wife, attorney Leontyne “Tina” Partee-Elder, in her home last year as…
A man who murdered a judge and others in a Georgia courthouse killing spree has been sentenced to life in prison rather than the death penalty that prosecutors sought.
After news earlier this week that William Dillon will not be retried in a murder case for which the apparently wrongfully convicted Florida man spent 27 years in prison, defense…
A Texas boy, who was 8 years old at the time, of the crime testified along with another witness that Ricardo Rachell was the man who had sexually assaulted him.
A preacher will be granted bond as he appeals a sentence of up to 10 years in prison for an article he wrote predicting God’s wrath will be inflicted on…
A former law clerk to a New York trial court judge has been sentenced in federal court to four months of home confinement and forfeited the motor home he used…
Despite a crackdown on individuals in Florida who had a significant role in writing millions of dollars worth of troubled mortgages, some of their colleagues who have been involved in…
Accused of participating in a $597 million fraud to deceive shareholders of American International Group Inc. into thinking the insurance giant had $500 million more in loss reserves than it…
A lawyer for the state of Tennessee defending prosecutors’ decision to withhold evidence in a death penalty trial encountered skeptical and indignant questioning from several justices on Tuesday.
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