Saying that the government couldn’t prove its case, a federal judge in Greenbelt, Md., has dismissed midway through trial an obstruction prosecution against a former in-house lawyer for GlaxoSmithKline.
A federal judge has tossed a cybersquatting suit filed by Koch Industries against pranksters who issued a fake online press release claiming the company had changed its stance on global…
A self-confessed Detroit hitman serving time for eight murders reportedly has claimed responsibility as well for four more slayings that another man has been convicted of committing.
A Colorado judge has nixed seven perjury counts against a Fort Collins police investigator blamed for the wrongful 1999 murder conviction of Timothy Masters, finding that the state had brought…
A South Carolina attorney has been publicly reprimanded by the state supreme court for overselling his small firm’s experience and expertise by exaggerating and making statements that could not be…
Casey Anthony, a Florida woman accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, doesn’t want her parents at her trial, and argued to keep them out, on the basis of her right…
Assistant prosecutors in Milwaukee County are set to take a 20 percent pay cut starting May 8, following a negotiation breakdown with the state of Wisconsin.
An Oklahoma appeals court has overturned a woman’s murder conviction because a judge advised jurors not to be “hardheads” and told them to reach a quick verdict.
A Philadelphia judge admits she called a defendant “vile,” but it got deleted from the transcript because of her request for deletion of “nonjudicial” comments, according to a Pennsylvania Supreme…
After a Muslim woman was arrested and jailed for refusing to remove her hijab as she tried to enter a Douglas County courtroom, the Georgia Judicial Council adopted a policy…
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