Stopping short of finding that it would be unconstitutional to criminalize a sexual relationship between a high school teacher and his adult student, a Washington state appellate court says the…
Reversing a trial judge, a Washington appeals court struck down today as unconstitutional a state law permitting a juvenile accused of chronic truancy to have his or her case initially…
Despite an alleged effort to violate conditions of his $10 million bond by sending expensive jewelry to family members, Bernard Madoff, accused of being the architect of a $50 billion…
After being convicted in 2002 of a murder committed in 1975 in upscale Greenwich, Conn., when he was a teenager, Michael Skakel has already served six years in state prison.
Apparently frightened when the prosecution argued to the jury that he deserved a life term, a Texas man being sentenced Wednesday after his conviction for possession with intent to deliver…
Days before a new presidential regime will be in place at the White House, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey issued a written opinion (PDF) yesterday finding that…
Darlene Feger still misses Kisses, the Persian cat who disappeared from her New Jersey home seven years ago. And she has the ongoing legal battle to prove it.
A California lawyer who represented two reputed gang members in related criminal cases is conflicted out of continuing to defend one of them in a triple-murder prosecution, even though both…
In what the 2nd Circuit describes in a written opinion as a close case, the appeals court has upheld a lower court decision to award no attorney fee to a…
A lawsuit launched by a former law student at the University of California at Berkeley has netted some $33 million in refunds—make that $42 million, counting interest—for tuition overcharges to…
A Florida judge has disqualified the entire Broward State Attorney’s Office from trying a murder case after learning that two prosecutors had listened to recordings of the jailed defendant’s phone…
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