State bar officials in Florida have opened an investigation into Jose Baez over whether he was fully candid with the court over his client Casey Anthony’s probation.
The United States is going to review 300,000 files of those currently in deportation proceedings as alleged illegal immigrants, as well as all future cases, to determine whether the individuals…
A man convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison was granted a new hearing by an appeals court after his attorney failed to show up to the original hearing…
When a Kentucky judge last month sentenced Brian Pollard to four days in jail for DUI, she apparently had no idea there’d been a fatality tied to the incident.
Nafissatou Diallo, the Sofitel Hotel housekeeper who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, filed a New York Supreme Court complaint today against the former IMF chief, the…
After a reported claim by Justice Ann Walsh Bradley that fellow Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser put his hands around her throat during a heated debate about the timing…
Unsuccessful in his earlier efforts to persuade the judge in his San Angelo, Texas, child sex-abuse trial to recuse herself, Warren Jeffs tried a new tack.
Facing a new legal issue following her release after being acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Casey Anthony is returning to Orlando, Fla., for another court hearing.
Stephen McDaniel worked for about three months this spring as an intern in the Bibb County, Ga., district attorney’s office, during his third year in law school.
Fined $100 for failing to appear at a pretrial hearing in one county because he was attending a pretrial hearing in another county, a New Hampshire criminal defense lawyer appealed…
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