Adding another jurisdiction to those in which defense lawyers have previously accused officials of improperly recording inmate phone calls to their legal counsel, Federal Public Defender Lisa Freeland says in…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the courts to consider the unresolved claims of an Indiana death row inmate convicted of murdering his brother and three others.
Ending a longtime practice that harks back to the British colonization of India, a court in Madras yesterday began enforcing a rule that lawyers are not supposed to address the…
Saying that statements made on social networking sites are admissible as evidence of a defendant’s character, the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a Northern Indiana man…
A lawyer was wrong when he advised his client that a felony marijuana plea won’t result in deportation, but was he ineffective under the Sixth Amendment?
Court filings by lawyers representing Roman Polanski apparently gave piqued prosecutors the incentive to seek his arrest, according to a published report.
A recent federal appeals court ruling provides an unusually detailed roadmap to prosecutors about appropriate electronic discovery parameters and procedures and could create a sea change in the way the…
When a criminal defendant dies while his conviction is being appealed, the federal courts dismiss the charges, as happened in the case of Enron executive Kenneth Lay.
A municipal court judge in Canton, Ohio, told a bailiff to get the duct tape—and use it to silence an argumentative defendant at a preliminary hearing in a shoplifting case…
A death row inmate who claims the Eighth Amendment bars his execution because he is innocent of the crime will get a hearing before a federal district judge, thanks to…
A district attorney’s office that refused a Pennsylvania judge’s order to reveal the name of a confidential informant has been held in contempt of court and fined $5,000.
Retired federal judge Abner J. Mikva, who heads up a panel investigating clout in the admissions process at the University of Illinois, decried the growing practice by prosecutors of holding…
A father and physician who was the sole survivor of a deadly home invasion in Connecticut is seeking a court order barring the suspects and their legal counsel from contacting…
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