Doubts about a grandmother’s guilt didn’t merit overturning a jury verdict based on prosecutors’ theory that an infant died from shaken baby syndrome, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
In the latest unusual development this week for a Texas prosecutor’s office, a judge has ruled that the Harris County district attorney will be required to testify in an individual’s…
In the latest development in an unusual runaway grand jury investigation in Texas, the judge overseeing the Harris County case has disqualified the local district attorney’s office and appointed two…
An unusual runaway grand jury in Houston may be probing the local district attorney’s office in addition to issues with the city police department’s breath alcohol testing vans.
A former Texas prosecutor, now a sitting judge, has been accused of withholding exculpatory evidence in the prosecution of an Austin-area man who spent 25 years in prison for a…
When Cory R. Maples heard that he was going to be represented in his murder appeal by lawyers from one of New York’s most prestigious law firms, “I thought I…
Exercising its extraordinary jurisdictional powers, as it was urged to do in a petition by a nonprofit Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday appointed a judge…
Four U.S. marshals will be in the courtroom as attorney Paul Bergrin goes on trial in federal court in Newark, N.J., next month. He faces a racketeering case in which…
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