A Nevada commission charged with reviewing the state’s defense system for poor defendants is bogged down in a dispute over the definition of criminal cases.
An informant’s claim that a known thief and cocaine dealer told him he’d paid his unidentified female lawyer, who also happened to be a cocaine user, with two stolen laptop…
Claude Howard Jones was executed a decade ago. But a DNA test is now going to be conducted to determine whether a 1-inch hair that was relied on to convict…
The U.S. Supreme Court is giving a Florida death row inmate a chance to challenge his conviction, despite his lawyer’s failure to file a habeas appeal within the one-year deadline.
Unhappy with the court-appointed defense lawyers in his capital murder case, Eric DeShann Floyd told a Pennsylvania judge Monday that he’d rather be executed than continue with his current attorneys.
Disbarred South Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, a sentence that is 10 years longer Jun 9, 2010 3:50 PM CDT
While in-your-face showmanship from lawyers is common at the Criminal Courts Building in Chicago, two prominent defense attorneys will bring their unabashedly colorful and unorthodox style to federal court Thursday.
In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an inmate’s claim that his “persistent silence” for nearly three hours of police questioning indicated he had refused to waive…
A Georgia death-row inmate whose appointed capital defense lawyers were tossed off the case due to funding problems cites a “systemic breakdown of the public defender system” in a petition…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a Texas death row inmate has the right to DNA tests that his lawyer rejected because he feared they would be…
A 30-day jail term for criminal contempt imposed on an infomercial pitchman after his followers flooded a federal judge’s BlackBerry and courthouse computer inbox with e-mail has been nixed by…
Representing, at various times, both the defendant in an attempted murder case and witnesses that the prosecution intends to call at trial put a New York prosecutor and public defender’s…
To reduce the potential pressure on jurors to consider Internet material sent to them by outsiders about Rod Blagojevich, a federal judge in Chicago today said that juror identities will…
An already convoluted case concerning the power of federal courts to intervene in government decisions about where to transfer detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison has been further complexified…
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