Three Ohio jurors were ordered to pay nearly $6,000 after their lunch-break investigations resulted in the mistrial of a murder case. Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese ordered the…
Admonishing controversial defense attorney Geoffrey Fieger in a murder trial this morning, a Michigan judge told him she’ll declare a mistrial and send him to jail if…
When the feds search an individual’s e-mail under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, they don’t have to notify the account-holder, a federal judge has ruled.
When a federal prosecutor tried to get a gag order against an outspoken critic of a case holding two Midwestern doctors criminally accountable for prescribing pain medication, a judge said…
Seeking a date with a cute court marshal during the sentencing phase of an ongoing Connecticut murder trial, an alternate juror tried to send a note setting a time and…
Freed yesterday after spending 18 years in prison for a capital crime he did not commit, Anthony Graves was initially convicted because of a “nightmare” of prosecutorial misconduct that included…
An attorney for the top criminal court judge in Texas hailed the elimination of a public warning earlier this month as a conclusive win for his client in a legal…
At least 18 criminal defendants who refused to waive their constitutional right to a speedy trial won’t have to go to trial at all, following a California Supreme Court ruling…
A federal sex crimes prosecutor—who also just had her first novel, Law of Attraction published—is systematically taking on the accuracy of this season’s Law & Order: SVU.
Debtors’ prisons are making a comeback as states jail defendants who can’t afford to pay court-imposed fines and fees, including “pay-to-stay” jail fees and public defender charges, according to reports…
Updated: A Michigan juror who indicated in a Facebook post that she believed the defendant in her case is guilty—before the case went to verdict—wound up on the hot seat,…
Public defenders throughout Minnesota are struggling with hefty caseloads, slowing down the justice system and potentially failing their clients because they are stretched too thin.
A federal appeals court has upheld the sexual abuse conviction of a New York man whose case was chronicled in a documentary, even as the panel blasted the trial judge…
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