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…
A white supremacist who is accused of posting information on the Internet soliciting harm to a federal jury foreman pleaded not guilty today in federal court in Chicago.
Richard Brown never seemed like a great candidate for a physician’s license. A lackluster student in high school and college, he attended several foreign institutions before getting a medical degree.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday on whether the Sixth Amendment requires lab workers to be available for cross-examination about their forensic reports.
A former Ohio lawyer who voluntarily resigned from the state bar earlier this year has pleaded guilty to aggravated theft in connection with admittedly stealing $624,000 from her former clients…
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear two cases that ask whether jurors considering the death penalty can consider emotional videos as victim impact evidence.
The Utah Supreme Court has refused to impose Rule 11 sanctions against two capital defense lawyers for raising “unwarranted and unjustifiable” claims in a habeas appeal. But the court’s opinion…
A federal judge has overturned a jury verdict against a former part-time magistrate judge in Clinch County, Ga., finding that there wasn’t enough evidence to convict her of perjury and…
A woman who drove her then-14-year-old son to a California park, where he and some friends fatally attacked a 13-year-old boy, was sentenced today to 15 years to life in…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a former inmate convicted of raping and assaulting a prostitute has a constitutional right to a DNA test that he claims…
An attorney who is also a former councilman in the Pennsylvania town of O’Hara has been disbarred, after admittedly setting his estranged wife’s house on fire because it was too…
Unhappy that a female lawyer had been appointed to represent him in an appeal, a South Carolina inmate wrote to various officials seeking to have a different attorney appointed to…
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