A South Carolina lawyer who fled to Canada after reportedly taking more than $2 million from a real estate client received a two-year federal prison sentence today.
A disbarred New York lawyer who lived just a few doors down from Bill and Hillary Clinton was sentenced today to 25 years for fatally shooting his wife.
There are habitual offenders. And then there’s Douglas E. Smith, a northwest Indiana man who has the infamous distinction of being the most arrested person ever in Porter County.
The U.S. Supreme Court has sent a jury instruction case back to a federal appeals court for an analysis of whether an error in felony murder instructions was harmless.
Seven of the 14 people forgiven by President Bush last week are former hunting or shooting enthusiasts. Five even wrote Bush expressing their desire to win back the right to…
Rejecting a suggestion by a probation officer that Terry Christensen should be confined in his Beverly Hills home, a federal judge in California today sentenced the high-profile Los Angeles lawyer…
Criminally charged in 1995, after a police officer allegedly found marijuana in her car, Renee Felton didn’t show up for her court date and spent more than a decade dodging…
Nearly four years after her husband was gunned down by an angry defendant in his Georgia courtroom, Claudia Barnes, who has attended the trial of Brian Nichols almost every day…
An appeals court in Texas has ordered attorneys for an inmate facing the death penalty to explain why they didn’t complain sooner about a now-admitted affair between the judge and…
When divorce attorney Martha-Irene Weed settled a matrimonial case for George Dumstorf Jr.in 2000, she had to contend with seemingly bizarre allegations of bigamy on the part of his soon-to-be…
A high-profile lawyer convicted of conspiring with a private investigator to wiretap their clients’ opponents in celebrity litigation should be sentenced to spend 10 months in his Beverly…
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