A criminal contempt trial is under way against two Texas lawyers, concerning their winning defense of an El Paso municipal court judge in a criminal trial last year.
A Texas lawyer scheduled to be tried next month in a felony case in which she is charged with embezzling over $500,000 from her own grandmother is now being held…
Updated: A judge in Corpus Christi ordered two attorneys who were appearing before her to take ethics classes after they were reportedly seen looking through her cell phone.
One of two Texas lawyers convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud by a federal jury in Florida concerning a claimed scheme to steal the identities of dormant publicly traded…
Clarified: A 54-year-old man with a low IQ who reportedly couldn’t handle money and sucked his thumb was put to death Tuesday in Texas for the 1992 murder of a…
When a prominent Texas trial lawyer bought a 1928 armor-plated Cadillac once owned by gangster Al Capone, the history of the car was well-documented from 1931, after a tax-evasion conviction…
An impasse between the Army psychiatrist facing capital charges in a fatal 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, and the military judge who will preside over his court-martial has…
Lois Gibson has worked 30 years for the Houston police department as a sketch artist. During that time, her work earned her a Guinness World Record for the most criminals…
A Virginia-based military vehicle manufacturer isn’t admitting any wrongdoing, but has agreed to pay a $55,000 settlement to a morbidly obese materials handler fired from his $21-an-hour job at a…
Updated: A certified public accountant who applied to Baylor Law School claims in a lawsuit (PDF) that he is a victim of age discrimination because he went to college…
The government is dropping all charges against a Texas lawyer who had been expected to go to trial this week on charges related to multiple attacks on his wife.
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