Ever since the police beating of Rodney King in 1991 made international headlines after being captured by a citizen bystander on videotape, such recordings have often played a key role…
The female owner of a New Jersey tire store has a viable quid-pro-quo sexual harassment claim concerning her allegations that a male manager of a rental-equipment store customer withheld business…
Citing an “unacceptable tide of domestic and sexual violence” on Indian reservations, a senior U.S. Department of Justice official has called on federal prosecutors in 33 states to step up…
The 88-year-old suspect accused of fatally shooting a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., on June 10 has apparently died in a federal prison hospital in…
It probably comes as no surprise that the youth of today know little about the civil rights movement: the 1963 “children’s crusade” in Birmingham, Ala., or the desegregration of Little…
In a new chapter of an ongoing saga of allegations against a so-called private investigator to the stars concerning claimed dirty litigation tactics in high-profile celebrity cases, a magazine editor…
After an inspector general’s report that castigates a New York state police forensic scientist for faulty work that went undetected by his supervisors over…
Defense lawyers argued that a middle-aged Texas judge had been waylaid by the feminine wiles of a 20-something defendant in a drunken-driving case on his call. But a jury decided…
Convicted today by a Virginia judge of indecent exposure for walking around naked in his own home without drawing the blinds, Erick Williamson didn’t get any jail time.
Oversight was so lacking at a New York state police crime lab that one analyst continued routinely to falsify test results over a 15-year period, compromising one-third of his 322…
Four hours before a convicted murderer was scheduled to be put to death today, the Georgia Supreme Court halted the execution and ordered a trial judge to consider Carlton Gary’s…
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