Granting an emergency motion by the suspect in a Tucson, Ariz., mass shooting spree early this year, a federal appeals court has ordered prison officials not to forcibly administer anti-psychotic…
A decade after Portugal instituted reforms aimed at treating drug users rather than punishing them, health experts say the number of “problematic” drug users is way down.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been freed from house arrest after prosecutors uncovered information raising credibility questions about the maid who accused him of sexual assault.
Federal prisoners serving crack cocaine-related sentences will be eligible for early release as a result of a U.S. Sentencing Commission decision today, the Associated Press reports.
A federal appeals court has ruled that a defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when a policeman followed the suspect into his mother’s home and seized a cellphone containing nude…
A former bookkeeper at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has repaid the law firm only $4,000 in the five years after her guilty plea in a $350,000 embezzlement scheme.
A Florida judge has struck down Florida’s death penalty procedure in which jurors make a capital sentencing recommendation without clear factual findings on aggravating factors.
A youth’s age is relevant when deciding whether a person being questioned by police is in “custody,” triggering the need for a Miranda warning, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled…
A California court ordered a Santa Clara country judge to resentence Joseph Gerber, who was convicted in 2009 of possessing child pornography after pasting photos of his 13-year-old daughter’s head…
Although he painted American student Amanda Knox as a cold-blooded murderer who pinned Meredith Kercher’s arm while Knox’s former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito slashed her roommate’s throat in a sex-game gone…
A district attorney in Pennsylvania is blasting a court that overturned a jury’s rape conviction for concluding that “a sexual-assault victim is not to be believed unless her injuries are…
Deborah Heinrich’s saga as an accused criminal reportedly began after she found a wallet last summer that the owner says he had carelessly left atop the pump at a Wyoming…
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