Setting the stage for further appellate review of whether the defendant accused in the Ft. Hood shooting massacre can continue to wear at a military trial, in violation of Army…
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris helped free a convicted murderer after his film, The Thin Blue Line, suggested there had been a miscarriage of justice.
Nicholas Merrill, who challenged an FBI demand for private records about his Internet company’s clients, is now working on creating a surveillance-resistant ISP. Photo by Sarah Tew/CNET.
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The public defender representing Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes suggested he may have tried to reach his psychiatrist minutes before he opened fire at a showing of The Dark Knight…
Corrected: Hilda Valadez, a Texas lawyer who reportedly earned $403,000 for her state court indigent defense work, was indicted Thursday for allegedly forging judges’ signatures and double-billing Bexar County for…
A federal judge in Iowa has dropped charges against a fugitive doctor because it’s become too costly for federal officials to maintain evidence in the massive online pharmacy case.
A Colorado judge overseeing the case involving the mass shooting during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises has agreed to allow a charitable group to contact victims and begin…
The FBI is accusing a federal court employee of leaking confidential files, including information that disclosed details of forthcoming raids on Armenian street gangs.
Authorities believe district court criminal intake…
Saying state secrets may mean the sacrifice of individual liberties in this case, a federal judge in Los Angeles has tossed a lawsuit accusing federal authorities of spying on mosques…
In recently disclosed witness protection records, information has surfaced that New York prosecutors paid the hotel bill of a key homicide witness for months, despite testimony to the contrary.
Nearly 70 former federal judges and prosecutors are taking the side of a defendant and urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an appeal of a doctor trying to…
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Nicholas Merrill, who challenged an FBI demand for private records about his Internet company’s clients, is now working on creating a surveillance-resistant ISP. Photo by Sarah Tew/CNET.
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